He played the trumpet in the army, and in the late 1950s formed jazz-rock group the John Barry Seven.
Always a musician's musician due to his aptitude for blending his sound a mixture of Tex Mex, blues, surf-rock, jazz and country Cooder appears comfortable in any project he attempts.
Even bars on the Frenchmen Street strip, a quasi-Bourbon Street where jazz and rock clubs sprouted in the 1980s, often feature bands that have to pass the hat for tips.
Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, whose accomplishments have garnered him a mighty reputation beyond his legacy as John and Alice Coltrane's son, might be considered a traditionalist by fans of electric, rock-influenced jazz.
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He says growing up listening to his mother sing in Houston, Texas, helped shape his appreciation for various musical forms such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop that he now incorporates into his own work.
The two performances were the latest in an annual series of benefit concerts with pop-rock performers to support Jazz at Lincoln Center, which in previous years has featured Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Paul Simon.
No venue is designated for one or another stream: The postbop attack of trumpeter Wallace Roney and his quintet was presented at the same hall as guitarist Marc Ribot's rock- and free-jazz-influenced Ceramic Dog.
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"Toward the Low Sun" (Drag City) is the ninth album by the instrumental group Dirty Three , which dispenses with equal efficacy sentimental folk ballads, free-flowing rock and downtown free jazz, resulting in tender beauty and raucous clatter.
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Afro-Cuban percussion, loungy jazz textures, and rock psychedelia undulate together in a hypnotically soulful way.
The migrants brought the blues and gave birth to jazz, rock, rhythm and blues and hip-hop.
"This year, we've veered off the road, " he added of the jazz theme, alongside the classical and Welsh rock line-up.
After jumping around from jazz to folk to rock, he returned to his piano-based roots on 2004's Halcyon Days.
Unlike the bluntly bluesy garage-band sound of the Stones, Mr. Fagen's music is a rich-textured, harmonically oblique amalgam of rock, jazz and soul.
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Jazz and rock critics have likened Mr. Shimabukuro (shee-mah-boo-kuh-roh) to such icons as Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, comparisons now unfurled like Homeric boilerplate wherever his intercontinental tour schedule leads him.
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The result is a collection of 13 songs that range from bluesy rock to Cajun country to an 11-minute jazz-influenced Spanish suite, with Herbie Hancock on the piano.
U. student, and Scorsese, when he later took his place in the wider world, did so as a champion of a bygone age: his best films feature jazz, Martinis, and characters belonging to or nostalgic for the pre-rock era.
Electronica rules at more Design District and Downtown clubs, lovely jazz spots are not hard to find, and a cosy but strong indie-rock scene centres around Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave) and Churchill's (5501 NE Second Avenue).
Since 2001 Railroad Earth has been playing bluegrass plus snatches of rock, folk, and jazz with the same open armed, occasionally long-winded approach that's helped jam bands like Phish and the String Cheese Incident earn throngs of rabid fans.
The latest suite of stereo headphones will excite and impress pop and rock enthusiasts who want massive, high-definition sound clarity as well as serious jazz and classical audiophiles looking to take their favorite recordings to another level of performance and sophistication.
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Although at home her genres of choice are rock, hip-hop, and opera, the music she was making onstage was all jazz.
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