CTI Records (Creed Taylor International or Creed Taylor Incorporated) was a jazz record label founded in 1967 by Creed Taylor, initially as a subsidiary of A&M Records. (Wikipedia)
Flora Purim (born in March 6, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian jazz singer known mainly for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark albu...
Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, & Art Farmer (Jazz Fusion Trumpeters)
Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s from a mixture of ...
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (7 April 1938 – 29 December 2008)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and o...
Chick Corea Discography (Jazz - Keyboards)
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941)[1] is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.
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Pushing Boundaries With Miles Davis (Jazz - Trumpet)
Miles Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Widely considered one of the...
This bit of generalized history is by way of introduction to the
composer of Desafinado, and one of the young musicians from
Brazil who was in at the creation of Bossa Nova: Antonio
Carlos Jobim.
Mara was born in Pedra Azul, a small town in Minas Gerais, and has grown up in a climate of political oppression and censorship during the military dictatorship. At the age of 16, she started trans...
John Field's (1782-1837) “nocturnes,” a form of music highly developed if not actually created by him, remain all but unrivaled for their tenderness and dreaminess of conception, combined with a co...