Felix Contreras
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Miles Davis once claimed he'd changed jazz five or six times, and his statement wasn't that far off.
From the birth of the cool in the late 1940s...
To modal jazz with Kind of Blue.
To the music of two innovative quintets in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
To his very popular records with electric instruments in the early 1970s.
Miles Davis' Centennial will be celebrated all year long at jazz festivals and tribute concerts around the country this year.
Miles Davis once claimed he'd changed jazz five or six times, and his statement wasn't that far off.
From the birth of the cool in the late 1940s... ...to modal jazz with Kind of Blue... ...to the music of two innovative quintets in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
to his very popular records with electric instruments in the early 1970s.
Miles Davis' Centennial will be celebrated all year long at jazz festivals and tribute concerts around the country this year.
Sonny Rollins was a sideman in the late 1940s, loaning his muscular tone to recordings by Bud Powell and drummer Roy Haynes, among others.
By the mid-1950s, he was well on his way to a solo career, most notably with the album Saxophone Colossus, a tag that stayed with him for the rest of his life.
That album included his signature song St.
Thomas, a calypso-themed tune from his childhood.
Sonny Rollins was born in Harlem to parents from the Virgin Islands.
Rollins stopped performing in 2012 after over seven decades during which he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Medal of Arts, and was named an NEA Jazzmaster.
Sonny Rollins was a sideman in the late 1940s, loaning his muscular tone to recordings by Bud Powell and drummer Roy Haynes, among others.