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Gerry Mulligan, baritone sax
Lee Konitz, alto sax
Jay Jay Johnson, trombone
John Lewis, piano
Kenny Clarke, drums.
West Coast Jazz
On the West Coast, at Hermosa Beach in Los Angeles, there was an after-hours refuge for musicians similar to Minton's—the Lighthouse Club. Here the guiding spirit was, at the outset, Stan Kenton, with whom were associated alto saxist Art Pepper, clarinettist and tenorman Jimmy Giuffre, and drummer Shelly Manne. Another leading musician of this School (and a figure of very different temperament from Kenton) was Dave Brubeck. A serious composer and musical theorist who had studied with Darius Milhaud, Brubeck devoted himself especially to the development of jazz forms, experimenting with the musical constructions of European music to produce jazz forms that lasted as an entity over several minutes rather than just living from one riff to the next. Similar experiments in musical form and texture were made by the conservatoire-trained negro composers Gigi Gryce and Quincy Jones.
A feature of post-war jazz were the activities of impresario Norman Granz who promoted musicians such as Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins and Dizzy Gillespie. Granz achieved much success by the |
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