Gillespie, Dizzy (1917–93)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Big Band ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Small Band ◽  
Latin Jazz ◽  
Charlie Parker ◽  
Artistic Career

Dizzy Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. Over the course of his artistic career Gillespie was based in New York City, where he was first active performing in big bands, eventually leading bands of his own. Along with his musical colleague, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, Gillespie was one of the progenitors of the modern jazz movement bebop in the 1940s. Considered one of the pioneers of Latin jazz, especially Afro-Cuban jazz, Gillespie traveled extensively, performing with an international roster of musicians. Compositions that reflect this style of jazz include "Tin Tin Deo," and "Manteca" (1947). Gillespie’s musical orientation to Afro rhythms was evident as early as 1942, when he composed the jazz standard "A Night in Tunisia." When he dissembled his big band to form a sextet in 1949, Gillespie gave modern jazz tenor saxophonist John Coltrane his start in improvisational focussed small band work.

Monk, Thelonious (1917–1982)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Thelonious Monk ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
Charlie Parker ◽  
52Nd Street

Thelonious Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. One of the earliest performers in the bebop movement of modern jazz dating from the mid-twentieth century, namely the 1940s in New York City, Monk performed original compositions in neighborhoods there such as Harlem and Greenwich Village, as well as the thriving 52nd Street district of jazz nightclubs. The pianist performed with other leading figures in modern jazz including bebop progenitors Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and avant-garde saxophonist John Coltrane, all of whom performed and recorded Monk’s compositions. Monk’s compositions are some of the most commonly performed jazz standards today. Giddins and DeVeaux (2009) argue that Monk’s compositions are the second most frequently performed standards written by any one composer in jazz today, after those of pianist and big-band leader Duke Ellington.

Ellington, Duke (1899–1974)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
The Great Migration

Duke Ellington was an American jazz composer, pianist, and big-band leader who authored over 1,000 compositions throughout his career. Having studied piano since the age of seven, Ellington relocated to New York City as part of the Great Migration and became a prominent musical figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He recorded full-length studio albums in quartet and trio settings with high modernists John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. Ellington was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation on the centennial of his birth in 1999, recognising his musical genius, his evocation of the principles of democracy through jazz, and his significant contributions to modern culture and the arts. Giddins and DeVeaux (2009) argue that Ellington’s compositions have been the most performed pieces in jazz written by any one composer.

Mingus, Charles (1922–1979)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black Church ◽  
York City ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Modern Jazz

Charles Mingus (1922–1979) was an American jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader. He held strong social and political views and composed songs on civil rights, such as ‘‘Fables of Faubus,’’ from his modern jazz album Mingus Ah Um (1959), and ‘‘Meditations on Integration’’ (1964). Other compositions of Mingus’s musical modernism include the cool jazz-inspired anthem ‘‘Haitian Fight Song’’ (1957). The bassist first gained a reputation for performing on the cool jazz scene of Los Angeles, California in the postwar 1940s. Mingus would later relocate to New York City in the early 1950s, gaining a reputation as a bandleader who composed, performed, and recorded modern jazz that was distinctly hard bop in some settings, post-bop in other contexts, and contained characteristics of the avant-garde, blues influences, and the music of black church gospels that he was exposed to at an early age.

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

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