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Grachan Moncur III, the Glossary

Grachan Moncur III (June 3, 1937 – June 3, 2022) was an American jazz trombonist.^[1]

93 relations: 'Bout Soul, Al Cooper, Alan Silva, All About Jazz, Another Git Together, Archie Shepp, Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Avant-garde, Avant-garde jazz, Beaver Harris, Benny Golson, Blue Note Records, Butch Morris, BYG Records, Capri Records (Jazz record label), Cardiac arrest, Cassandra Wilson, Cello, Chris White (bassist), Clifford Thornton, Colin Larkin, Dave Burrell, Decision in Paradise, Destination... Out!, Dizzy Gillespie, Echo (Dave Burrell album), Echoes of Prayer, Evolution (Grachan Moncur III album), Exploration (album), For Losers, Frank Lowe, Free jazz, Gary Bartz, Grachan Moncur II, Guinness World Records, Herbie Hancock, Here and Now (The Jazztet album), Hipnosis (Jackie McLean album), Homage to Africa, In Order to Survive (album), Inner Cry Blues, Institute of Jazz Studies, Jackie McLean, Jazz, Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Joe Henderson, John Patton (musician), Juba-Lee, Ketchaoua (album), ... Expand index (43 more) »
BYG Actuel artists
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The 360 Degree Music Experience members
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'Bout Soul

Bout Soul is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Al Cooper

Lofton Alfonso Cooper (1911 – October 5, 1981) was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Alan Silva

Alan Lee da Silva (born 22 January 1939, in Bermuda) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player. Grachan Moncur III and Alan Silva are BYG Actuel artists.

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All About Jazz

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

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Another Git Together

Another Git Together is an album by the Jazztet, led by trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson.

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Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Grachan Moncur III and Archie Shepp are avant-garde jazz musicians and BYG Actuel artists.

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Art Blakey

Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Grachan Moncur III and Art Blakey are blue Note Records artists.

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Art Farmer

Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Grachan Moncur III and Art Farmer are 20th-century African-American musicians and the Jazztet members.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Beaver Harris

William Godvin "Beaver" Harris (April 20, 1936 – December 22, 1991) was an American jazz drummer who worked extensively with Archie Shepp. Grachan Moncur III and Beaver Harris are the 360 Degree Music Experience members.

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Grachan Moncur III and Benny Golson are the Jazztet members.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group.

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Butch Morris

Lawrence Douglas "Butch" Morris (February 10, 1947 – January 29, 2013) was an American cornetist, composer and conductor. Grachan Moncur III and Butch Morris are avant-garde jazz musicians.

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BYG Records

BYG Records was a French record label known for the Actuel series specializing in free jazz.

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Capri Records (Jazz record label)

Capri Records Ltd. is a jazz record label founded by record collector, photographer, and recording engineer Thomas C. Burns.

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Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, also known as sudden cardiac arrest, is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.

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Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Grachan Moncur III and Cassandra Wilson are blue Note Records artists.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Chris White (bassist)

Chris White (July 6, 1936 − November 2, 2014) was an American jazz bassist.

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Clifford Thornton

Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, political activist, and educator. Grachan Moncur III and Clifford Thornton are American jazz trombonists and BYG Actuel artists.

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Colin Larkin

Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.

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Dave Burrell

Herman Davis "Dave" Burrell (born September 10, 1940) is an American jazz pianist. Grachan Moncur III and Dave Burrell are BYG Actuel artists and the 360 Degree Music Experience members.

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Decision in Paradise

Decision in Paradise is an album by Frank Lowe recorded in 1984 and released on the Soul Note label.

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Destination... Out!

Destination...

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. Grachan Moncur III and Dizzy Gillespie are 20th-century African-American musicians.

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Echo (Dave Burrell album)

Echo is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell.

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Echoes of Prayer

Echoes of Prayer is an album by trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III on which he is joined by members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra and the Tanawa Dance Ensemble.

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Evolution (Grachan Moncur III album)

Evolution is the debut album led by the American trombonist Grachan Moncur III, recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Exploration (album)

Exploration is an album by trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III.

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For Losers

For Losers is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! in 1970.

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Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe (June 24, 1943 – September 19, 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Free jazz

Free jazz, or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.

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Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940, in Baltimore) is an American jazz saxophonist. Grachan Moncur III and Gary Bartz are blue Note Records artists.

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Grachan Moncur II

Grachan Moncur II (sometimes credited as Grachan Moncur, born September 2, 1915 – November 3, 1996) was an American jazz bassist with the Savoy Sultans. Grachan Moncur III and Grachan Moncur II are 20th-century African-American musicians and American people of Bahamian descent.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. Grachan Moncur III and Herbie Hancock are avant-garde jazz musicians and blue Note Records artists.

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Here and Now (The Jazztet album)

Here and Now is an album by the Jazztet, led by trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson.

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Hipnosis (Jackie McLean album)

Hipnosis is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean.

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Homage to Africa

Homage to Africa (also released as Hommage to Africa) is an album by American free jazz drummer Sunny Murray.

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In Order to Survive (album)

In Order to Survive is an album by American jazz double bassist William Parker which was recorded live in 1993 and released on the Italian Black Saint label.

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Inner Cry Blues

Inner Cry Blues is an album by trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III.

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Institute of Jazz Studies

The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) is the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world.

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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. Grachan Moncur III and Jackie McLean are blue Note Records artists and jazz musicians from New York City.

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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 Composer's Orchestra

The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group, founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965, to perform orchestral avant-garde jazz.

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Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Grachan Moncur III and Joe Henderson are 20th-century African-American musicians and blue Note Records artists.

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John Patton (musician)

John Patton (July 12, 1935 – March 19, 2002) was an American jazz, blues and R&B pianist and organist often known by his nickname, Big John Patton. Grachan Moncur III and John Patton (musician) are blue Note Records artists.

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Juba-Lee

Juba-Lee is an album by American saxophonist Marion Brown.

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Ketchaoua (album)

Ketchaoua is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Clifford Thornton.

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Khan Jamal

Khan Jamal (July 23, 1946 – January 10, 2022), born Warren Robert Cheeseboro, was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. Grachan Moncur III and Khan Jamal are 20th-century African-American musicians.

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Kwanza (album)

Kwanza is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! in 1974.

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La Vie de Bohème (album)

La Vie de Bohème is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell.

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Laurinburg Institute

Laurinburg Institute is a historic African American preparatory school in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

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Lee Morgan

Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. Grachan Moncur III and Lee Morgan are blue Note Records artists.

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Live at the Pan-African Festival

Live at the Pan-African Festival is a live recording of Archie Shepp's performance in Algiers on July 29–30, 1969, when his free jazz group was complemented by several North African musicians.

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Live in New York (Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd album)

Live in New York is a live album by saxophonist Archie Shepp and trombonist Roswell Rudd.

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Luna Surface

Luna Surface is an album by multi-instrumentalist Alan Silva, recorded on August 17, 1969 and released later that year on the BYG label as part of their Actuel series.

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Mama Too Tight

Mama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1967.

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Marion Brown

Marion Brown (September 8, 1931 – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist. Grachan Moncur III and Marion Brown are avant-garde jazz musicians.

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Mark Masters (musician)

Mark Alton Masters (born November 13, 1957) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger.

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My Point of View

My Point of View is the second album by pianist Herbie Hancock.

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New Africa (album)

New Africa is an album by American trombonist Grachan Moncur III recorded in 1969 and released on the BYG Actuel label in the same year.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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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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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Octet (music)

In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble.

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One Step Beyond (Jackie McLean album)

One Step Beyond is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Poem for Malcolm

Poem for Malcolm is a jazz album by Archie Shepp.

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Point of View (Cassandra Wilson album)

Point of View is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, recorded in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1985, as the fourth release of the German JMT label in 1986.

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Pop + Jazz = Swing

Pop + Jazz.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Roswell Rudd

Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (November 17, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist and composer. Grachan Moncur III and Roswell Rudd are American jazz trombonists, American male trombonists and free jazz trombonists.

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Some Other Stuff

Some Other Stuff is the second album by American trombonist Grachan Moncur III, recorded on July 6, 1964 and released on Blue Note early the following year.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. Grachan Moncur III and Sonny Rollins are blue Note Records artists and jazz musicians from New York City.

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Soul Connection

Soul Connection is an album by American organist John Patton recorded in 1983 and released on the Nilva label.

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Stockholm Sojourn

Stockholm Sojourn is an album by the International Jazz Orchestra directed by Benny Golson which was recorded in Sweden in 1964 and originally released on the Prestige label.

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Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (September 21, 1936 – December 7, 2017) was an American musician, and was one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming. Grachan Moncur III and Sunny Murray are 20th-century African-American musicians, 21st-century African-American musicians, avant-garde jazz musicians and BYG Actuel artists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grachan_Moncur_III

Also known as Grachan Moncur, III.

, Khan Jamal, Kwanza (album), La Vie de Bohème (album), Laurinburg Institute, Lee Morgan, Live at the Pan-African Festival, Live in New York (Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd album), Luna Surface, Mama Too Tight, Marion Brown, Mark Masters (musician), My Point of View, New Africa (album), New York (state), New York City, Newark, New Jersey, North Carolina, Octet (music), One Step Beyond (Jackie McLean album), Poem for Malcolm, Point of View (Cassandra Wilson album), Pop + Jazz = Swing, Ray Charles, Roswell Rudd, Some Other Stuff, Sonny Rollins, Soul Connection, Stockholm Sojourn, Sunny Murray, The All Seeing Eye, The Bahamas, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Jazztet, The Kicker (Joe Henderson album), The Last Session (Lee Morgan album), The New Wave in Jazz, The Way Ahead (album), Things Have Got to Change, Three for Shepp, Tim Hagans, Trombone, Wayne Shorter, William Parker (musician).

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See also

BYG Actuel artists

Free jazz trombonists

The 360 Degree Music Experience members

The Jazztet members

References