History of Jazz Piano
Posted on March 17, 2008
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Jazz piano has been a part of jazz since its inception. Piano is one of the few instruments Jazz Combo, the strings can play, in contrast to play the saxophone or trumpet, the notes only. The first jazz piano is mainly explained by step. Stride is also known as New York, Ragtime is a pioneer of jazz-piano-style. It was developed in Harlem during the World Cup of war. As you can see, the name of New York (Ragtime), was influenced by Ragtime, but it is an improvisation, blue tickets and rhythms of swing, novelty in this type of music.
The great artists of the time were Earl Hines, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Art Tatum, Thomas “Fats” Waller, Mary Lou Williams, Teddy Wilson, and many others, most often visited cutting Competition (piano stride fighting between players at the beginning 1920s), in which they have demonstrated their capabilities.
It continues to grow, especially in years 50 and 60 with pianists such as Red Garland, and McCoy Tyner. During this period, one of the most widespread species of jazz free jazz has been called increasingly popular. Some major works of art we still remember the time that was certainly a golden age of jazz existence. The start of free jazz with recordings for Ornette Coleman, and with a little jazz and Advance Looking Ahead, two major albums Cecil Taylor.
Today, the piano-jazz is more popular among many pianists mentioning that some people, Michael Weiss, Bill Charlap, Geoffrey Keezer, Brad Mehldau, Mulgrew Miller, Danilo Perez, and many others.
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