By 1956, the middle class was absorbing American music and ... The Modern Jazz Quartet had ... but will always be best remembered as the pianist and musical director of the most successful jazz group ...

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He began performing professionally in his teens and studied music theory and piano at the ... Metheny even called Hall “the ...

You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost a Brubeck school. SMITH: So, was Dave Brubeck the pioneer ...

Scarcely into his mid-20s, the Toronto-raised saxophonist is making a splash in New York with his spirited and well-informed modern ... the best of off-the-cuff jazz. Both musicians are boppy ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...