Earl Hines But Hank Jones on 30th? so you include Duke Ellington and keep out BILLY STRAYHORN an RED GARLAND??? How to compare Oscar Peterson and Thelonious Monk?! [9][10][11], On many of Kanno's tracks, a woman named "Gabriela Robin" was credited as a lyricist and vocalist, but whenever these songs were performed in concert, either Maaya Sakamoto or Origa would perform them instead. Duke Ellington was known more as a composer. By the middle of that decade, there emerged a variant of bebop called hard bop, which was characterized by dominant blues and gospel elements, and may have rendered those still wondering what is bebop even more confused. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize}@media (any-hover:hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover}}Rock Icon KISS Is Saying Goodbye (For Real), Rihanna and 10 Other Great Pregnant Performances, Burt Bacharachs Legacy: 5 Notable Collaborations, 2023 Grammy Awards: Six Winners Who Made History. Dressed as the morning milk, plus, like the quilt John Hicks could really burn the keys, and Brother Newborn, was on par with the great Oscar Peterson. ", Rock Icon KISS Is Saying Goodbye (For Real), Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Dizzy Gillespie, Birth Year: 1917, Birth date: October 21, 1917, Birth State: South Carolina, Birth City: Cheraw, Birth Country: United States, Best Known For: A jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie played with Charlie Parker and developed the music known as "bebop." That marks nearly 18 years of Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim. If the list would be longer, I definitely would add Jimmy Rowles, Bill Charlap and Georgy Szabados. composer Bill, on the other hand, completed his archetypal journey be going full circle. Really like the different posts mentioning those left off the list, especially the more obscure and forgotten players like Bobby Enriquez (who I vividly remember seeing at Newport) and Dorothy Donnegan. What???? 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In 2010, she made a surprise appearance at Anime Expo. However. 17 Vince Guaraldi He was described by Leonard Feather in the 1950s as the greatest American born pianist of his day (after Art died). He is right up there with Oscar and Art. one which is missing but stand out as performer as well as educator is dick hyman. Debussy, Ravel); he ended as a full-blown expressionist (think Moussoursky, Rachmaninoff)two opposite sides of the same coin of Romantic art. Bill had the biggest, heaviest hands of any pianisthis touch, always deep in the keys, could coax from the most stubborn piano the fullest ppp and fff in closely-voiced harmonies or the most evenly-played rapid runs thanks to minimal body movement and heavy, dead accurate fingers. In the second verse, Gillespie seems to be making references to the racial elements of American society: From bebop to hip hop, back to bebop Gene Harris should be among the best 10!!! No Eliane Elias? I do have some issues with some on list but the top 5 ( in a different order ) is very good but is debateable in some people. This list is the all-time great jazz pianists. I would have included John Lewis and everybody has their own list but this is YOUR list so there should be no criticism at all. Also, Harold Mabern at 43 is pretty steep. 15 Jelly Roll Morton MARK EISENMAN?! As to rhythmn, as they say in NY, Forget about it. Category:Bebop composers - Wikipedia WebEddie "Lockjaw" Davis - saxophone. John Cho as Spike Spiegel in Netflix's live-action remake of "Cowboy Bebop." George Cables, Stan Tracy, Carla Bley, Monty Alexander, Pete Johnson, I vote for 88 otherwise there isnt enough room on the piano stool. University of Virginia. Bill is overrated. Agree with many comments,especially Marion MacPartland. Ellis Marsalis is a trumpet man, I believe. does anyone think Herbie should be moved lower for inflicting Watermelon Man on the worldand still playing it in public in the 20-teens? No Jason Moran? To blowin horns, to walking with the bass up right Yoko Kanno performed her solo PianoMe concert at Otakon 2013. Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94 Burt Bacharach was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for Promises, Promises and a three-time Oscar winner. In a bid to be heard in a big band ensemble, Hines began articulating melodies with octaves (or what he called trumpet notes), as well as using a tremolo effect (a rapid alternation of two notes). Hes head and shoulders more talented than many on the list. the most shit rating ever! Love him, Underrated: Wynton Kelly and Red Garlandand where is Cedar Walton? ! So, withal my disagreements, cool list. I wanted to express these 'tangible fuzziness,' sort of. It emerged in the 1940s, out of Like Keith Jarrett, Armando Chick Corea, from Chelsea, Massachusetts, was an early starter he began playing piano aged four and later rose to fame as a sideman with the great Miles Davis (replacing Herbie Hancock). I dont warm to Art Tatum thoughmostly flash more than substance and pretty much feel that way about Oscar Peterson too. In the hands of bebop musicians, jazz became more blues-oriented and riff-based too; and because Parker and Gillespie were able to marry their supreme technical ability with their knowledge of advanced music theory, what resulted was a new type of jazz defined by extended solos and whose harmonic language was denser and richer than ever before. Given his fame in the 50s as a pop singer with a silky croon, its perhaps not surprising that many often forget that Alabama-born Cole was also one of the best jazz pianists of his time. My other 50% is Polish (some people call me a POWOP). My take-away is we can enjoy live music from several all-time greats Ahmad, Chick, Keith, McCoy, Herbie whether they are Top 10 or not is irrelevant. Ketil Bjornstadt Not sure what category he goes in. As far as ability goes, most of the names on this list are unable to match his. While A Night in Tunisiais one of Gillespies earliest compositions, you can already hear two trademarks of his music: Afro-Cuban rhythms and his innovative approach to harmony and melody, which would fuel a jazz revolution called bebop. [3] Kanno has composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyko Koizumi. Hank Jones much, much higherand Im the biggest Basie fan you can imagine, but dont believe as a PLAYER he rates with players who were or are featured in trios and quartetsas some have said, Mary Lou Williams should be in here. Though, compared to many of the best jazz pianists, his influences are wide and varied ranging from pop, rock, folk, and classical music, to bebop, country, and even electronic music he has distilled them all into a unique style which is inspired by the lyricism of Bill Evans and spellbinding virtuosic improvisation of Keith Jarrett. NO CHUCHO VALDES!!!!!!!!!!!! In a stroke of fate, the universe made sure things started coming together for them exactly three years ago. 1 Thelonious Monk No Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson? Yes, if you listen to the superb 1946 Sinatra recording of Sweet Lorraine with the Metronome All-Stars, Coles piano is wonderful. Nat king Cole was a jazz pianist before he became a singer. Phineas Newborn -John Lewis-Billy Strayhorn -should be in the top 10 15. As I said before, LENNIE TRISTANO IS #50!! A great list, but as many people already said, loads of pretty good pianists are missing! But somebody stands out for superior quality . Phineas Newborn is not here.This is total crap.This is posted by some Johnny come Lately. One of the true greats. Each episode is named after a famous band or genre of music, from episode 1 Asteroid Blues to episode 5 Ballad of Fallen Angels, a tribute to the Aerosmith song of the same name. I told Benny Green that so much of the music around the 60s was musicians music, he told me how difficult a particular note was, but hey, I just like the sound . Mine as well, John. Thanks for that piece of useful knowledge, Im off exploring this mister Al haigs world! While all my lessons are free, if you find them useful please consider donating to help keep them coming. Wow, Bill Evans before Oscar Peterson. Here he is with MICHAEL BRECKER. My faith is restored! And Abdullah Ibrahim. He wasnt a jazz pianist and he was more of a composer than a performer anyways. Next we follow Parker and Gillespie on a trip to Los Angeles - an occasion notable both for the thrilling live concert they played there and for Parker's ensuing breakdown and stay in Camarillo State Hospital, where, after years of drug abuse, he underwent six months' psychiatric treatment; it would be several years before the two men collaborated again. Also worth a mention was Joshua Riffkin playing Scott Joplin. Bebop jazzs most important style? BeBop was the conclusion of something, everything that followed was something else. [4], Kanno attended Waseda University, where she majored in literature, but she transcribed music for various student groups at Waseda in her free time. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, everyone hears beautiful music as it appeals to their ear. Bebop Donald Macleod and special guest Geoffrey Smith explore bebop. The absence of Brad Mehldau is unforgivable I checked like 10 times to be sure I didnt just miss him. He started as an orthodox stride-style player but soon introduced innovations. I think Eddies brother, Charlie, would be an even better choice! Here it is. Miles put together an ensemble that was larger than the customary bebop small group and made music that was less aggressive than what Parker and Gillespie were doing. A list like this is never going to please anyone. Taken as a whole , however, I doub t there has ever been as spontaneously creative a pianist as Erroll Garner. Despite suffering from a genetic disease that stunted his growth, resulted in brittle bones, and gave him perpetual arm pain, France-born Petrucciani defied the odds to become one of the worlds best jazz pianists, and was inspired to take up the instrument after seeing Duke Ellington on TV. While with this band, she studied the composition and style of popular music. She has listen very good to Gene Harris, but nevertheless, Live in Paris proves she is a very good piano player. I meant Lennie Tristano is #50. Dave Grusiin and Bob James? Any fan of Cowboy Bebop Meanwhile, on the US East Coast in the 50s, audiences still liked bebop that packed heat and drama. Born in Connecticut with Cape Verdean ancestry, Horace Silver was an archetypal hard bop pianist whose rise to fame began when he co-founded The Jazz Messengers (which Art Blakey later took over) in 1954. Lets not argue about who is missing it is impossible to have all names available, but in real terms in matters not a hoot because Bud Powell and Monk are there. But ,generally speaking,when you trancribe and compare you understand a lot.For instance the quality of Bill Evans texture and harmony is very sophisticated and complex .Art tatum does in a minute more modulations and notes than Mozart in 20 minutes.Jarret can improvise with an astounding freedom.Piano Music is an handmade product .You can copy or to invent a own convincing style like a painter an actor a sculptor. A near-fatal diving accident in 1951 caused nerve damage to Brubecks hands and changed the way he played piano, where fleet-of-finger lines were replaced by dense block chords. McPartland because apart from her undoubted talent she was very gracious when I spoke to her between sets at the Hickory House. His piano playing, to me was rather too simplistic and mundane when compared with the likes of Red Garland and Oscar Peterson. Photo by Matt Flynn via National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Parker, who in his own words had been bored with the stereotyped [chord] changes that were being used, found a kindred spirit in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, with whom he played in Earl Hines band later the same year. And, and, and. For shame. Had people cheering and crying at the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival. I dont understand Herbie Hancock at #4ahead of Oscar Peterson, Fats Walleryoure kidding me! Secondly, Clare Fischer had a huge influence, and no one (as far as I could see) has mentioned him. 16 Herbie Hancock Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. 7 Bud Powell With such a short existence, itd be easy to assume you know everything there is to know aboutCowboy Bebop. Im far from being a fan of this kind of lists. Bebop: History of Jazz MUS1212 Course Assignment Outline, chapter ten. And Shirley Horn should be on the list. If you dont believe me, just listen to All Night Session. From the early 30s to the late 40s boogie woogie was a commercial force in jazz. Awesome list! Joe Zawinul Notice is starts on an off-beat, a semitone away from a chord tone, the arpeggiates up the chord (Dm7) from the 3rd to the 11th before returning back down via a scale with passing notes. to see what I mean), the bebop-infused score is performed by a bunch of great jazz musicians, who formed especially to record the soundtrackin 1998, and same again in 2021. Thats the same serial number as the USS Enterprise from the original Star Trek TV show. Some popular brands she has composed for are Canon, DoCoMo, Fuji Xerox, 7-Eleven, Microsoft, Nissan, Toyota, Shiseido, Avon, and MasterCard to name a few. Check out Brads second half solo in UNION DUES BLUES. I think there are two important ones missing. Each episode is named after a famous band or genre of music, from episode 1 Asteroid Blues to episode 5 Ballad of Fallen Angels, a tribute to the Aerosmith song of the same name. The problem with lists like this is that they draw a stagnant picture of a very vibrant art. Episode 19 Wild Horses is one of the shows best, thanks to the wonderful interplay between Spike and Doohans assistant Miles. Sheesh!! Below is a quick comparison between Swing music and Bebop. The house band at Miltons included drummer Kenny Clarke and pianist Thelonious Monk. Hands down one of the best jazz pianists in history, Tatum was a blind genius who arguably created the most densely polyphonic and sophisticated pre-bebop piano style of all, fusing stride with swing. Youre always in the bag? When bebop music first hit the Gillespie's memoirs, entitled To BE or Not to BOP: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie (with Al Fraser), were published in 1979. Looking for other, s influences are worn broadly and proudly, but perhaps none as proudly as the tribute in episode 22, Cowboy Funk. During the. Thank you,Charles Waring, for providing an erudite springboard for discussion. The jazz world has produced an abundance of super-talented piano masters in the past 100 years many more than can be accommodated in this list of the 50 best jazz pianists of all time. I love Tete. Our site uses cookies to tailor your experience, measure site performance and present relevant donation incentives and advertisements. Me too. Where is Joe Sample? Kirkland a rock loser? You should be ashamed! If you dont know her, get out there, drop whatever youre doing and listen to her, and redo this list! Freddie Slack Use swung eighth notes but insert accents throughout the phrase to create a rhythmic element to your melody line (accenting some on and some off-beats); End the phrase with a downward movement (this is where the name Bebop comes from as the sounds bee and bop could be used to scat these melodic lines). But he was all arpeggio and flash . Sarah Vaughan, another featured singer, was a master of the bebop vocal style. Dick Twardsik Three, two, one, let's jam. Roger Kellaway-Ray Bryant etc etc etc My interest is in most classical piano but admire jazz pianists who possess a solid thorough technique AND play with something resembling a pleasant singing tone. Not mentioned by anyone in this thread), Marian Petrescu (unbelievable), Michel Camilo. 4. one should mention Eliane Elias, Chucho Valdes, Uri Caine. Check out Ellingtons and Juan Tizols Caravan if you want to see what it is like to muscially pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. And why is it hailed as the most important development in jazz? Gillespies father was an amateur bandleader who, although dead by the time Gillespie was ten, had given his son some of his earliest grounding in music. Their three studio recordings - 'Dizzy Atmosphere', 'Now's the Time' and 'Koko' - galvanized the jazz world, both with the freshness and inventiveness of the musical language and the sheer virtuosity of the playing. I agree with the guy who thought Iturbi was a better jazz pianists than many on this list. Thats about it. What's more, the "improvisatory, wandering ethos of bebop actually inspired and shaped the plot and style of the show," according to Pentreath. Over the course of its 26 episodes. Tatums technique was phenomenal. Co-workers are not friends, companies are not families: Worker mocks workplaces culture after being made to return to office for it, Those are words you never say to a bartender: Bartender puts customers who ask for surprise me drinks on blast, *First Published: Apr 18, 2018, 6:00 am CDT. The Big Apple certainly didnt know what hit it when Charlie Parker blew into town like a tornado and shook the jazz scene to its very core. Moreover, Bill kept the flame going, traveling round the world, too busy to go into a recording studio. Finishing work on a Theloneous Monk anniversary album. And if you go outside of the USA, and you should, you have to mention Abdullah Ibrahim and Jan Johansson. Cowboy Bebop: Stars John Cho Indeed, Watanabe, the creator of the original anime, is known to be a huge fan of jazz and it is why the musical genre features so heavily in the soundtrack. It is said that this is where Bebop was born. Please. Italian. Tristano contributed some extremely interesting rhythmic perspectives. I love Bill Evans but he was not better then Bud Powell or Oscar Peterson! And where the hell is Brad Meldau? Come the frig ON! Thanks to you, Talking Stein, I went there .. and No Thank You! (Fairytales). Anyone who can make Mack The Knife sound interesting must be good!! This would very quickly root out any amateur musicians. Where is Joe Sample, brad mehldau, and Carlos ruvacabla? During, s initial run on Tokyo TV, only 12 episodes aired due to violations of broadcast standards. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. [citation needed], In 2011, Kanno expressed her support and wishes to the victims of the 2011 Thoku earthquake and tsunami, composing a song titled "Kimi de Ite, Buji de Ite". A classically-trained pianist, Lewis fused jazz with rhythmnblues and gospel music to forge a distinctive soul jazz style that spawned a host of imitators. Lil Hardin?. How this list can omit John Lewis, proves a point I always make that he is/was the most under rated pianist there is.. I might add to that list, Hazel Scott, Horace Tapscott and Bobby Scott (puns? 15 Likes, 0 Comments - Bebop Bounty Big Band (@bebopbountybigband) on Instagram: ONE WEEK AWAY: Honored to have @laruenickelson, accomplished Whereas earlier jazz was essentially diatonic (i.e., basing melodies and harmonies on traditional Western major and minor 7-note scales comprising 5 whole and 2 half steps), much of the thinking that informed the new movement was chromatic (drawing on all 12 notes of the chromatic scale). Let me know what you think once you have listened and then tell me he shouldnt be in this list, close to the top! The details are so fine that you can see the serial number on Spikes gun in stills from theBlu-ray. So please give credit where credit is due. What about Milt Buckner? 34 Cecil Taylor His best-known compositions include "Oop Bob Sh' Bam," I agree with a couple of dozen on the list, but I would have thought that Maryanne McPartland deserved an entry somewhere. Newsletter: Secret China dinos conspiracy, I love how your voice is in all of our heads: How TikTok came to love and fear Everybodys so creative, NOTHING is better than REMOTE work! The elder sibling of trumpeter Thad, and drummer Elvin, Jones, this Mississippi-born/Michigan-raised pianist was initially influenced by Earl Hines and Fats Waller, but later fell under bebops spell. Hes a wild one! I wonder if people know just how good Al Haig was. Bebop might be the name of our heroes ship, but its more than that. I rate him up with Monk and far better than Art Tatum in his jazz input. Before Bebop, if you wanted to improvise, you could get away with knowing little music theory and largely just feeling your way through the song using your ear to find what sounded good. I thought my friend was a genius. The omission of Marian McPartland is criminal. You made an attempt that is insurmountalble for each have left an indubitable mark on jazz from Tatum to Evans to Brubeck to Jamalbut Chickcome on. 13 Count Basie List of bebop musicians But ranking them is ridiculous. Pianists as any other professional musician are certainly competing with their art yet not for being ranked but for getting loved, respected, and paid well for their performances! Its hard to take seriously a top 36 jazz pianists list that doesnt include Mary Lou Williams. If you need confirmation of this, go see the wonderful 1 hr docu on Hines @ https://vimeo.com/58414566. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgckQmjUtcU. Read about our approach to external linking. This list may not reflect recent changes . Herbie Nichols You have the same last name of another great pianist not mentioned on the list: DON THOMPSON. Unbelievable!!!! More than a decade later, in 1990, he received the Kennedy Center Honors Award. AUTUMN IN MUSKOKA (Vol.1) is very good. It was as if in some deep, dismal basement some music happy monster of an inventor asembled all those traits needed to master the piano and placed them inside the Elfs five foot two frame. You are wrong according to the facts. . Visually impaired from infancy, Ohio-born Tatum learned to play the piano by ear as a child and, blessed with perfect pitch, quickly excelled at the instrument. Sonny is a musicians musician he would rank higher if this were polled from a sample only consisting of jazz pianists. Eventually, the show found a second life on the satellite channel WOWOW, airing late at night where it couldnt offend delicate sensibilities. He is amazing! Seriously? Go clean your ears and learn some lineage!! Traces of its DNA can be found in the music of cutting-edge contemporary jazz artists such as Robert Glasper, Brad Mehldau, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Kamasi Washington. Miles survived the transition and concluded what followed. But Art definitely deserves to be number one. Known for his angled trumpet bell and puffy cheeks, a brilliant jazz trumpeter Cowboy Bebop: 12 Things You Never Knew About This Classic Kannos scoring work in anime isnt limited just to jazz, however. I think the list captured most of the major players, missed a few that I would have included McPartland and Newborn to name a couple and some of the rankings are idiosyncratic. Hard bop became the most popular form of jazz in the 50s, and among its main practitioners were Miles Davis who, ever the restless soul, quit the cool school soon after it started Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Sony Stitt, John Coltrane, Art Pepper, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Dorham, Sony Stitt, and myriad others. The Rough Guide to Jazz describes the album as "some of the key bebop small-group and big band recordings". 1) The theme song from the JETSONS. 20 Horace Silver His final recording Gene Harris Live at Otter Creek is his best album. But bebop or rebop, as it was also known for a time wasnt to everyones taste. [citation needed], (Artists ordered by year of first collaboration), Companies that have commissioned Kanno for commercial music.[24]. Piano has so many fantastic players that for me I have a huge amount of favorites. Second, nobody remembers Mel Powell and Johnny Guarnieri? This list was clearly made up of people far from jazz. The Bebop is a converted interplanetary fishing trawler, originally designed to catch and transport fish from the melted oceans of Jupiters Ganymede moon. Europeans cannot answer that question for us as African Americans.The Spirituality of African American Classical Music was conceived in the womb of social racial and political womb and delivered to the world as an evolving relative entity to the souls of those who respect it enjoy it and dont dare try to define it.Ya dig? Kenny Barron-Mal Waldron-Dick Hyman -Alan Broadbent-Jess StacyMarian McPartland Oscar Peterson [14], Besides music, Kanno also enjoys photography and writing. Updates? I give you two european pianists: Jan Johansson, Sweden and Louis van Dyke from Holland. along with releasing numerous solo albums of her work. From being sprung by the swings, so they legs in the air Hazel Scott There are a few names missing on your list, such as Vince Guaraldi, Russ Freeman, Dudley Moore, Egberto Gismonti, Claude Bolling; each of these have special talents that deserve mention. Yoko Kanno's soundtrack themes include "Kiseki no Umi" (Lodoss War), "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" The resulting breachesfirst, between the older and younger schools of musicians and, second, between jazz musicians and their publicwere deep, and the second never completely healed. The "Cowboy Bebop" limited edition, colored vinyl features Yoko Kanno's original score. To put Erroll Garner at 17 is ludicrous-if you listen extensively he is really unparallelled musically-also had a great technique and he was certainly the greatest composer among all the jazz giants.I happened to meet Erroll on tour in 1972 and he was the most self effacing lovely man you could meet.Junior Mance told me in 2015 that everyone was blown away by Erroll in the early days in NY and they all wanted to play like him, Shes an awesome pianist. We are comparing piano players,musicians and arrangers. : Eddie Palmieri, Chucho Valdez should be on the list. Eddie Costa The final C was added, according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, because it looked cool.