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What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss?Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and br... more info

Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — Early 1900s: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicWhether or not the cornetist Buddy Bolden invented jazz (Jelly Roll Morton is one of the best known other claimants to the title), he certainly created the enduring ... more info

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Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — 1956: Number 25 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicSonny Rollins is still a full-blown saxophone giant today at the age of 80, but they were calling him the Saxophone Colossus back in 1956.Rollins is one of the few surviv... more info

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Miles Davis improvises a soundtrack for Lift to the Scaffold

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — 1957: Number 26 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIt was in the late 1950s that film directors began to call on jazz musicians to provide atmospheric soundtracks. Among the most notable were the scores for Shadows (Charl... more info

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Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — 1959: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music1959 saw the release of several key jazz albums, each of which found new ways of developing and challenging the innovations of bebop. Dave Brubeck's Time Out transformed ... more info

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Miles Davis plays to 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — 29 August 1970: Number 38 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz musicThe coolest man on the planet took the stage at the Isle of Wight festival towards the end of the afternoon on Saturday 29 August 1970. He followed Joni Mitchell... more info

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The release of Rockit

4909 days ago

Guardian Music — June 1983: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicMiles Davis boasted he had changed music five times. Herbie Hancock looks set to beat his old boss's record: every time he buys a new piece of equipment, he invents ... more info

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Space: George Clinton's final frontier

4910 days ago

Guardian Music — The legendary cosmic funkster is in London to talk about his obsession with the universe'You want to know about spaceships?" says the voice on the phone. "Well, one day Bootsy [Collins] and I were in a car. It was 11 in the morning, broad daylight, a... more info

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Photographer Stephen Wright's best shot

4913 days ago

Guardian Music — 'At the time, I was using my bedroom as a darkroom – and storing all my chemicals in old lemonade bottles'This shoot really should have gone to a big-name photographer – an Anton Corbijn or a Pennie Smith – but it went to me, a fan using a chea... more info

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Ray Bryant obituary

4917 days ago

Guardian Music — Versatile pianist and a member of a musical dynasty, he bridged the jazz generationsThe distinguished African-American pianist Ray Bryant, who has died aged 79 after a long illness, became a fixture of the jazz mainstream after enjoying a measure of... more info

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What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?

Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz

Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus

Miles Davis improvises a soundtrack for Lift to the Scaffold

Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

Miles Davis plays to 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight

The release of Rockit

Space: George Clinton's final frontier

Photographer Stephen Wright's best shot

Ray Bryant obituary

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