Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) is considered one of the pivotal musicians in jazz for his contributions as a trumpet player, composer and singer. The genre’s origins lie in seminal work by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter , and Herbie Hancock Generally, the term post-bop is taken to mean jazz from the mid-sixties onwards that assimilates influences from hard bop , modal jazz , the avant-garde and free jazz, without necessarily being immediately identifiable as any of the above.
In your second year you will begin to develop you own voice by playing your own compositions and arrangements in Jazz Performance 2. You will be given feedback from tutors in weekly sessions as well as composition lessons and instrumental lessons with specialist instrumental staff.
It’s debatable whether Marsalis’ critical and commercial success was a cause or a symptom of the reaction against Fusion and Free Jazz and …
