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1959 in jazz, the Glossary

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959.^[1]

265 relations: Abbey Is Blue, Abbey Lincoln, Akira Jimbo, Alan Barnes (musician), Albert Beger, All About Jazz, Alphonse Trent, Anatomy of a Murder, André Previn, Anjani, Antoine Hervé, Antonio Ciacca, Art Pepper, Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics, Avery Parrish, Baby Dodds, Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues, Bags & Trane, Ben Webster, Ben Webster and Associates, Benny Golson, Bill Evans, Bill Ware, Billie Holiday, Billy Drummond, Billy May, Birdland (New York jazz club), Bjørn Jenssen, Blowin' the Blues Away, Blue in Green, Blue Mitchell, Blue Soul (Blue Mitchell album), Blues & Roots, Blues-ette, Boris Vian, Boyce Brown, Brian Setzer, But Not for Me (song), Byrd in Hand, Cannonball Adderley, Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, Cannonball Takes Charge, Casiopea, CBS 30th Street Studio, Charles Mingus, Charlie Johnson (bandleader), Chega de Saudade (album), Chet (Chet Baker album), Chet Baker, Chicago, ... Expand index (215 more) »
1959 in music

Abbey Is Blue

Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.

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Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist.

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Akira Jimbo

, is a Japanese jazz fusion drummer, best known as the drummer for the Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea in 3 separate stints (1980-1989, 1997-2006 and 2012-2022).

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Alan Barnes (musician)

Alan Barnes (born 23 July 1959) is a multi-award winning English jazz saxophone and clarinet player.

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Albert Beger

Albert Beger (born 1959) is a saxophonist, flutist and an academy lecturer from Israel.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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Alphonse Trent

Alphonse "Alphonso" Trent (October 24, 1902 – October 14, 1959) was an American jazz pianist and territory band leader.

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Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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André Previn

André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor.

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Anjani Thomas (born July 10, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for her work with singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, as well as Carl Anderson, Frank Gambale, and Stanley Clarke.

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Antoine Hervé

Antoine Hervé (born 20 January 1959 in Paris) is a French composer and pianist.

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Antonio Ciacca

Antonio Ciacca is a jazz pianist.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American jazz musician, most known as an alto saxophonist.

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Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics

Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper and a small big band performing arrangements by Marty Paich, who also directed the ensemble.

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Avery Parrish

James Avery Parrish (January 24, 1917 – December 10, 1959) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

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Baby Dodds

Warren "Baby" Dodds (December 24, 1898 – February 14, 1959) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

Back to Back is a 1959 studio album by Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington.

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Bags & Trane

Bags & Trane is an album credited to jazz musicians Milt Jackson and John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1368.

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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Ben Webster and Associates

Ben Webster and Associates is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Bill Evans

William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio.

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Bill Ware

Bill Ware III born William Anthony Ware III (b. January 28, 1959, East Orange, New Jersey) is an American jazz vibraphonist.

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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.

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Billy Drummond

Willis Robert "Billy" Drummond Jr. (born June 19, 1959) is an American jazz drummer.

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Billy May

Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

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Birdland (New York jazz club)

Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949.

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Bjørn Jenssen

Bjørn Jenssen (born 1959 in Bodø, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums), known from a number of recordings, and steady drummer in the band Dance With a Stranger.

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Blowin' the Blues Away

Blowin' the Blues Away is an album by the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio, recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 29–30 and September 13, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.

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Blue in Green

"Blue in Green" is the third piece on Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue.

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Blue Mitchell

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) was an American trumpeter and composer who worked in jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk.

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Blue Soul (Blue Mitchell album)

Blue Soul is an album led by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded and released in 1959 on the Riverside label.

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Blues & Roots

Blues & Roots is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on the Atlantic label in 1960.

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Blues-ette

Blues-ette is an album by American trombonist Curtis Fuller recorded in 1959 and released on the Savoy label.

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Boris Vian

Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels.

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Boyce Brown

Boyce Brown (April 16, 1910 – January 30, 1959) was an American jazz dixieland alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.

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Brian Setzer

Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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But Not for Me (song)

"But Not for Me" is a popular song originally written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the musical Girl Crazy (1930).

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Byrd in Hand

Byrd in Hand is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded on May 31, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.

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Cannonball Adderley

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago

Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (later released as Cannonball & Coltrane in 1964, on Limelight) is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, his final release on the Mercury label, featuring performances by Adderley with John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb.

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Cannonball Takes Charge

Cannonball Takes Charge is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb with Percy and Albert Heath replacing Chambers and Cobb on two selections.

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Casiopea

, now known in its fourth iteration as Casiopea-P4, is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai, drummer Tohru "Rika" Suzuki, and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike.

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CBS 30th Street Studio

CBS 30th Street Studio, also known as Columbia 30th Street Studio, and nicknamed "The Church", was an American recording studio operated by Columbia Records from 1948 to 1981 located at 207 East 30th Street, between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan, New York City.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.

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Charlie Johnson (bandleader)

Charlie "Fess" Johnson (November 21, 1891, Philadelphia – December 13, 1959, New York City) was an American jazz bandleader and pianist.

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Chega de Saudade (album)

Chega de Saudade is the debut album by Brazilian musician João Gilberto and is often credited as the first bossa nova album.

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Chet (Chet Baker album)

Chet is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker first released in 1959.

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Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chico Hamilton

Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Cindy Blackman Santana

Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer.

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Cleveland Watkiss

Cleveland Watkiss, (born 21 October 1959), is a British vocalist, actor, and composer.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio

Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio (also referred to as Swingville 2001) is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins with pianist Red Garland's trio recorded August 12, 1959 and released on the Swingville label.

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Come Dance with Me (song)

"Come Dance with Me" is a popular song and jazz standard written by 1959 by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (words) that debuted in 1959 as the title track on Frank Sinatra's album, Come Dance with Me!.

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Conrad Herwig

Lee Conrad Herwig III (born 1959) is an American jazz trombonist from New York City.

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Corinne Drewery

Corinne Drewery (born 21 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and fashion designer, best known for being the lead vocalist of the band Swing Out Sister.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Cry! – Tender

Cry! – Tender is an album by American multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1959 (with one track recorded in 1957) and released on the New Jazz label.

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Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller (December 15, 1932May 8, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow (born Sydney, Australia, 25 December 1959) is a jazz saxophonist, flute player and composer.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Davis Cup (album)

Davis Cup is the debut album by American jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr. recorded on August 2, 1959 and released on Blue Note the following year—Davis's sole release for the label, and one of his few recordings as leader.

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Del Rey (musician)

Del Rey (born December 22, 1959) is an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Dennis Chambers

Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959) is an American jazz fusion and funk drummer.

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Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s.

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Dominique Di Piazza

Dominique Di Piazza, born in Lyon, France, in 1959, is an electric bass player.

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Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist.

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Drew Gress

Drew Gress (born November 20, 1959) is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in the Philadelphia area.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.

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Ed Cuffee

Edward Emerson Cuffee (June 7, 1902 – January 3, 1959) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Eddie Parker (musician)

Eddie Parker (born 28 May 1959 in Liverpool, England) is an English jazz flutist and composer.

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Elin Rosseland

Elin Rosseland (born 5 April 1959 in Norway) is a singer, bandleader, and composer who studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and is known from collaborations with Vigleik Storaas, Johannes Eick, Sidsel Endresen, Eldbjørg Raknes, Christian Wallumrød, and Johannes Eick.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book is a 1957 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, focusing on Ellington's songs.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, focusing on the songs of Irving Berlin.

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Ella Swings Lightly

Ella Swings Lightly is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Marty Paich Dek-tette.

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Ellery Eskelin

Ellery Eskelin (born August 16, 1959) is an American tenor saxophonist raised in Baltimore, Maryland and residing in New York City.

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Erik Vermeulen

Erik Vermeulen (born 15 October 1959 in Ypres, Belgium) is a Belgian jazz pianist.

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Fantastic Frank Strozier

Fantastic Frank Strozier is the debut album by American saxophonist Frank Strozier, recorded in 1959 and 1960 for Vee-Jay Records.

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Festival Session

Festival Session is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia Records label in 1959.

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Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet

Finger Poppin with the Horace Silver Quintet is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver recorded on January 31, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.

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François Bourassa (musician)

François Bourassa (born 26 September 1959, in Montreal) is a jazz pianist from Quebec.

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Frank Lacy

Frank Lacy (born August 9, 1958, Houston, Texas) is an American jazz trombonist who has spent many years as a member of the Mingus Big Band.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Frank Strozier

Frank R. Strozier Jr. (born June 13, 1937) is a jazz alto saxophonist.

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Frode Fjellheim

Frode Fjellheim (born 27 August 1959 in Mussere) is a Southern Saami yoiker and musician (piano and synthesizer) from Norway.

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Fuego (Donald Byrd album)

Fuego is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded on October 4, 1959 and released on Blue Note the following year.

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Gaute Storaas

Gaute Storaas (born 20 August 1959) is a Norwegian jazz musician (bass) and composer, and the older brother of jazz pianist Vigleik Storaas.

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George Russell (composer)

George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, also simply called Meets Ben Webster, is a 1960 album featuring the November 3 - December 2 studio sessions of American jazz musicians Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster.

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Gone with Golson

Gone with Golson is the fifth album by saxophonist Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1959 and originally released on the New Jazz label.

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Gongs East!

Gongs East! is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet.

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Graham Clark (violinist)

Graham Leslie Lionel Clark (born 16 December 1959) is an English violinist based in Buxton, Derbyshire.

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Grammy Award for Album of the Year

The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an award presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Commonly known as "The Big Award", Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammy Awards, and is one of the four general field categories alongside Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year that have been presented annually since the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Arrangement

The Grammy Award for Best Arrangement was awarded from 1959 to 1962.

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song was awarded between 1959 and 1971.

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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (including its previous names) has been awarded since 1960.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that was first presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961.

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Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a male in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition

The Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition was awarded from 1961 to 1967.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964.

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The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer (or composers) for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television

The Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television was awarded from 1959 to 1962.

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Gregg Bissonette

Gregg Bissonette (born June 9, 1959) is an American jazz and rock drummer and vocalist.

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Groovin' with Golson

Groovin' with Golson is the sixth album by saxophonist Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1959 and originally released on the New Jazz label.

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Hal McIntyre

Hal McIntyre (born Harold William McIntyre; November 29, 1914, Cromwell, Connecticut – May 5, 1959 Los Angeles, California) was an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.

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Hawk Eyes (album)

Hawk Eyes is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins which was recorded in 1959 and released on the Prestige label.

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Holiday for Skins

Holiday for Skins, Volumes 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related albums by American jazz drummer Art Blakey, recorded on November 9, 1958 and released on Blue Note the following year.

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Horace Silver

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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In San Francisco

In San Francisco is a live album by Hindustani classical musician Ravi Shankar.

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jazz in Silhouette

Jazz in Silhouette is the third studio album by the pianist and composer Sun Ra.

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Jazz Party

Jazz Party is a 1959 album by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra which contains a "formidable gallery of jazz stars" guesting, including Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Rushing (formerly the vocalist for Count Basie).

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Jeff Harnar

Jeff Harnar is an American cabaret singer and recording artist.

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Jimmy Bosch

Jimmy Bosch (born 18 October 1959), also known as "El Trombon Criollo", is a jazz and salsa music trombonist, composer, and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent born in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Jimmy Giuffre

James Peter Giuffre (April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Jimmy Smith (musician)

James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music.

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Joanna MacGregor

Joanna Clare MacGregor (born 16 July 1959) is a British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator.

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João Gilberto

João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira –; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s.

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Joe Locke (musician)

Joseph Paul Locke (born March 18, 1959) is an American jazz vibraphonist.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.

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John Lindberg (jazz musician)

John Lindberg (born March 16, 1959) is an American jazz double-bassist.

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John Parricelli

John Parricelli (born 5 April 1959 in Evesham, Wychavon, Worcestershire, England) is a jazz guitarist who has worked mainly in the United Kingdom.

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John Patitucci

John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz bassist and composer.

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Johnny Hodges

Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.

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Jonah Jones

Jonah Jones (born Robert Elliott Jones; December 31, 1909 – April 30, 2000) was a jazz trumpeter who created concise versions of jazz and swing and jazz standards that appealed to a mass audience.

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Kåre Thomsen

Kåre Thomsen (born 30 December 1959) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (guitar) and graphic designer, known for a number of releases and is active on the Bergen jazz scene performing with musicians like Karl Seglem, Vigleik Storaas and Terje Isungset.

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Kelly Blue

Kelly Blue is an album by American jazz pianist Wynton Kelly, released in 1959.

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Ken Darby

Kenneth Lorin Darby (May 13, 1909 – January 24, 1992) was an American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor.

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Ken Peplowski

Ken Peplowski (born May 23, 1959) is an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist.

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Kenny Dorham

McKinley Howard "Kenny" Dorham (August 30, 1924 – December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and occasional singer.

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Kevyn Lettau

Kevyn Lettau (born 1959 in West Berlin, West Germany) is a vocalist whose most popular works are in the styles of adult contemporary pop, west coast fusion/smooth jazz, and Brazilian jazz.

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Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis.

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Kris Defoort

Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer.

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Lawrence Marrero

Lawrence Henry Marrero (October 24, 1900 – June 6, 1959) was an American jazz banjoist.

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Lester Young

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

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List of years in jazz

This page indexes the individual year in jazz pages. 1959 in jazz and List of years in jazz are jazz by year.

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Marcus Miller

William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. (born June 14, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Mary Ann Redmond

Mary Ann Redmond (born 3 November 1959 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American singer known for her soulful and wide-ranging vocal style in popular and jazz music.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Meet Oliver Nelson

Meet Oliver Nelson is the debut album by saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in 1959 and released on the New Jazz label.

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Michael Philip Mossman

Michael Philip Mossman (born October 12, 1959) is an American jazz trumpeter.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Milt Jackson

Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist.

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Mingus Ah Um

Mingus Ah Um is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus which was released in October 1959 by Columbia Records.

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Mingus Big Band

The Mingus Big Band is a 14-piece ensemble, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of Charles Mingus.

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Mingus Dynasty

Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.

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Minor Hall

Minor Hall (March 2, 1897 – October 16, 1959), better known as Ram Hall, was an American jazz drummer active on the New Orleans jazz scene.

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Modern Jazz Quartet

The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop.

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Music from Odds Against Tomorrow

Music from Odds Against Tomorrow (also released as Patterns) is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring interpretations of the soundtrack score for the 1959 motion picture Odds Against Tomorrow.

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My Conception

My Conception is an album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark, recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Clark with Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers, and Art Blakey.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.

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New Soil

New Soil is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded on May 2, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York, N.Y. (album)

New York, N.Y. is an album by George Russell, originally released on Decca in either July or August 1959.

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Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.

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Nguyên Lê

Nguyên Lê (Vietnamese: Lê Thành Nguyên; born 14 January 1959) is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry.

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Nils Jansen

Nils Jansen (born 30 March 1959 in Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), known from several recordings and jazz orchestras.

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Nils Mathisen

Nils Mathisen (born 24 January 1959) is a Norwegian jazz musician (keyboards, violin, guitar and bass) and composer, known from significant efforts within cabaret and musicals.

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Odd Magne Gridseth

Odd Magne Gridseth (born 27 April 1959 in Ørsta, Sunnmøre, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (bass), known from the Trondheim music scene.

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Ole Hamre

Ole Hamre (born 20 October 1959) is a Norwegian drummer.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Omar Hakim

Omar Hakim (born February 12, 1959) is an American drummer, producer, arranger and composer.

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Omer Simeon

Omer Victor Simeon (July 21, 1902 – September 17, 1959) was an American jazz clarinetist.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer.

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Otomo Yoshihide

is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Ottmar Liebert

Ottmar Liebert (born 1 February 1959) is a German guitarist, songwriter and producer best known for his Spanish-influenced music.

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Patrick Defossez

Patrick Defossez (born 7 August 1959 at Valenciennes, France) is a Belgian composer, pianist and improviser of contemporary classical music.

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Patrick Yandall

Patrick Norman Yandall (born September 5, 1959, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States) is an American smooth jazz guitarist.

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Paul Jackson Jr.

Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist.

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Per Hillestad

Per Hillestad (born 25 March 1959 in Øvre Årdal, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (drums) and record producer, known as drummer in Lava and was contributing in releases by a-ha, Vamp, Jonas Fjeld, Bjølsen Valsemølle and Marius Müller.

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Phil Roy

Phil Roy (born February 28, 1959) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Porgy and Bess (film)

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles.

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Portrait in Jazz

Portrait in Jazz is the fifth studio album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans as a leader, released in 1960.

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Quiet Kenny

Quiet Kenny is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham of performances recorded in 1959 and released on the New Jazz label.

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Rebecca Jenkins

Rebecca Jenkins (born 1959) is a Canadian actress and singer.

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Renato D'Aiello

Renato D'Aiello is an Italian saxophonist who lives in the United Kingdom.

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Rene Van Verseveld

Rene Van Verseveld (born 29 June 1959) is a Dutch musician, songwriter, recording engineer, composer and record producer.

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Rita Marcotulli

Rita Marcotulli (born 10 March 1959) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.

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Roberto Magris

Roberto Magris (born 19 June 1959) is an Italian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Ronnie Burrage

Ronnie Burrage (born James Ronaldo Burrage October 19, 1959) is an American jazz drummer.

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959.

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Russ Gershon

Russ Gershon (born August 11, 1959) is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, and founder of the Either/Orchestra in Massachusetts in 1985.

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Russel Walder

Russel Walder (born February 9, 1959) is an American jazz oboist and the founder of Nomad Soul Records.

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Sade (singer)

Helen Folasade Adu (Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a Nigerian-born British singer, known as the lead vocalist of her band Sade.

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Salman Gambarov

Salman Huseyn oglu Gambarov (Salman Hüseyn oğlu Qəmbərov; born 18 April 1959, in Baku) is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer.

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Scott Robinson (jazz musician)

Scott Robinson (born April 27, 1959) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist.

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Shadow Wilson

Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson (September 25, 1919 – July 11, 1959) was an American jazz drummer.

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Sheldon Reynolds (guitarist)

Sheldon Maurice Reynolds (September 13, 1959 – May 23, 2023) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Side by Side (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album)

Although it is billed as a Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album, Side by Side is a 1959 album mostly under the leadership of Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington's alto saxophonist for many years.

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Sidney Bechet

Sidney Joseph Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Sidney Desvigne

Sidney Desvigne (September 11, 1893 – December 2, 1959) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Sigurd Køhn

Sigurd Eystein Køhn (6 August 1959 – 26 December 2004) was a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Simon Nabatov

Simon Nabatov (born 11 January 1959) is a Russian-American jazz pianist.

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So What (Miles Davis composition)

"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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Sonny Clark

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.

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Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt (born Edward Hammond Boatner Jr.; February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues

Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in late 1959 and released on the Verve label.

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Staffan William-Olsson

Staffan William-Olsson (born 13 December 1959) is a Swedish jazz guitarist in the band The Real Thing who has worked with Bob Berg, Lee Konitz, and Palle Mikkelborg.

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Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.

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Standards in Silhouette

Standards in Silhouette is an album recorded in September 1959 by Stan Kenton and his orchestra.

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Stanley Jordan

Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959) is an American jazz guitarist noted for his playing technique, which involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands.

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Sue Terry

Sue Terry (born 1959) is a jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Sun Ra

Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_jazz

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