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This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards , lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books , but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Charles Lloyd (born March 15, 1938) [1] is an American jazz musician. He primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute and occasionally other reed instruments, including alto saxophone and the Hungarian tárogató. Lloyd's primary band since 2007 has been a quartet including pianist Jason Moran, acoustic bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland.
John Clayton (bassist) John Lee Clayton Jr. (born August 20, 1952) [1] is an American jazz musician, classical double bassist, arranger, and composer. He is the father of pianist Gerald Clayton and the brother of saxophonist Jeff Clayton, with whom he formed the Clayton Brothers; and the Clayton–Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with Jeff Hamilton.
- Introduction
- Live Was An Important Part of The Strategy
- The 1971 Tour
- 1972 Winter and European Tours
- 1973 Space Concert and Paramount Northwest
- 1974 Asia and Japan
- 1975 and The Star’S Don’T Align
- Shaefer Music Festival ’75
- 1976 Time to Breakup The Band
- Unauthorized/Bootleg Releases
Creed Taylor spent much of late 1969, and 1970 signing artists, inking deals, and releasing initial albums for the newly independent Creed Taylor International company and CTI jazz label. As 1971 rolled around, Creed put in motion a plan to launch a more popular soul/jazz/funk label named KUDU. Also, in 1971, CTI sent out the CTI All-Stars tour, fo...
Increasingly, as the closure of small clubs occurred, musicians—especially jazz instrumentalists—were finding it increasingly difficult to secure gigs that could sustain them outside of the studio setting. Long road tours had a devastating and exhausting impact on the musicians, especially in the South. Segregation was still a real issue to contend...
For the 1971 tour, musicians included Hubert Laws on flute, Hank Crawford on alto sax, Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Johnny Hammond on electric piano and organ, Airto Moreira on percussion, Billy Cobham on drums and Ron Carter on bass. We know George Benson is on the album, so he must have been a late addition or alte...
In 1972, following on from what was apparently a very successful Summer-Jazz tour, CTI announced details would first be domestic only midwest college winter tour, coordinated with the release of the Summer Jazz “Live At The Hollywood Palladium” album. After the domestic tour, the CTI All Stars would for the first time tour internationally. The earl...
For 1973, CTI started out by tweaking their concert formats. Vic Chirumbolo, the CTI marketing vice president, said “CTI has broken down its large artist touring package into “mini concerts” with two and three acts like Grover Washington Jr. and Gabor Szabo or Johnny Hammond-Esther Phillips. Hank Crawford or Stanley Turrentine and Hubert Laws. This...
Almost a year to the day from the CTI All-Stars performance at the Paramount Northwest, they’d find themselves back, with another date in Vancouver, before flying direct to Japan to perform live for the first time. Japan, and to an extent, Korea, had long been fanatical consumers of jazz, not least because of the presence of US troops. Today Japan ...
By 1975 most of the CTI ensemble that had been with the label since the initial 1971 All-Star performance where either for the first time, or again, stars in their own right, or moved on to other labels. As Chirumbolo had indicated in 1973, the artists were now focused more on doing their own thing. On the music scene, disco was the big thing and m...
After the Schaefer Music Festival in August, CTI live moved back to the West Coast for full-on individual album promotion. Hubert Laws made his debut for the west coast leg of his national tour with an appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21st. Laws was then featured with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of...
While the 1971 Summer Jazz tour announced the arrival of the CTI ALL-Stars, 1976 started by signaling the end. On January 16th, Washington and Benson had shared lead billing at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. In his review of the concert for the San Francisco Examiner, Jazz critic Phillip Elwood wrote “Benson and Washington have a number of thing...
My interest in the CTI All-Star live performances started when I was offered a CD recording of the Olympic Jazz concert. The seller wanted an over optimistic $50 plus postage. I declined. that started me wondering and searching for other unapproved or bootleg recordings. While I am now in possession of three different live concerts, listed above, a...
May 9, 2024 · Photograph by Dorothy Darr. Saxophonist, flautist and composer Charles Lloyd has been at the forefront of the music for more than sixty years. From his early work and recordings with drummer Chico Hamilton’s group in 1962, and a two-year tenure with Cannonball Adderley, the saxophonist was showing that here was a new and unique voice just ...
Sep 20, 2007 · The life of Charles Lloyd has truly been the proverbial "long, strange trip." The master reedman experienced an unmatched level of popularity for a jazz musician in the late 1960s. Lloyd (b. 1938) and his quartet, which featured a young Keith Jarrett on piano and Jack DeJohnette on drums, packed clubs and captivated festival audiences worldwide.
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Live At MCG (MCG Jazz, 2005) "Explosive: Milt Jackson Meets the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra" (Qwest, 2010) They can also be heard on records with: Ernestine Anderson (Boogie Down: Ernestine Anderson with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Concord, 1990) Charles Aznavour with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (EMI France, 2009).
