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above points to Sixties Jazz United States:
Saxophone,
Keyboards and
Various. populated by musicians who first
appeared on vinyl between 1960 and 1970. 'Various' includes a few vocalists
though more thorough documentation of those are at Modern
Jazz Song. The Sixties section of jazz concerns musicians
who invaded jazz during the decade that the Beatles landed in America to
change the thrust of rock n roll to its very substance (their Merseybeat,
the Rolling Stones meanwhile addressing raw R&B). But jazz and
rock were two very different realms. Jazz was alike classical in its
elite exclusivity, something of a rarified underground to those in the know. Who couldn't love the Beatle's best-selling single, 'She
Loves You' ('63), and countless else by that group and others? But the
classical and jazz genres held the high cards, and yet do, in composition
and
instrumental command. All those hysterical screaming girls in the sixties
couldn't hear
what they were missing when, only just prior, jazz left the Milky Way like, way out,
then began to implode via free
form. Sixties Jazz is thus populated with numerous black holes containing
information, dependent, be as may, upon interpreter. As for jazz and rock,
they would begin to merge in the latter sixties, bringing about the jazz
fusion that exploded in the seventies and has remained a major mix ever
since. The Sixties is thus extended a little into the seventies to include but a touch of early jazz
fusion in its emergence. As for other jazz in this sixties, the field of jazz
was highly sophisticated
by that time. It was a little like chemistry: you had to be pretty hot
in the first place only to consider it for a career. The bar had gotten set
pretty high as of musical giants in the fifties. Amidst those more
experienced luminaries on
sax, horn, strings, piano and drums, who
began to populate the field of jazz in the sixties had to be capable of the real stuff,
having required several years of intent study. A good
number of prominent jazz musicians well-known in the United States, but born
elsewhere, are documented at Sixties Jazz
International. It also occurs that some
musicians might have recorded earlier than one might think, thus to be found
in an earlier period according to their instrument. As for artists who began
their recording careers in the seventies, though a few have found their way
into this history, most have not. Prominent among such was guitar giant,
John Scofield, who began his recording career in 1973 with Gary Marks toward
issue on latter's 'Gathering' by
Carla Bley's record
label, JCOA. Fusion guitarist, Pat Metheny, first recorded in June of '74 with
Paul Bley (piano) and
Jaco
Pastorius (electric bass), that released on Improvising Artists IAI 373846
in '76. His first vinyl had been
Gary Burton's 'Ring' in
'74, recorded in Germany in July that year. As for guitarist, Al Di Meola,
he first surfaced on 'Where Have I Known You Before' in 1974 with
Chick Corea's group, Return to
Forever.
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