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Getz/Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto is a 1964 Verve album by Stan Getz and João Gilberto with Antônio Carlos Jobim, recorded March 1963 at A&R Studios, New York. Its hit "The Girl from Ipanema" made bossa nova global; it won the 1965 Grammy for Album of the Year.
Giant Steps
Giant Steps, John Coltrane's 1960 Atlantic album, his first for the label with all seven tracks self-composed, built on fast major-third key changes known as Coltrane changes, recorded May 1959 with Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor.
Gilles Peterson
Gilles Peterson, French-born London-based DJ and broadcaster; coined acid jazz, founded Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, Brownswood Recordings (2006) and Worldwide FM (2016); hosts BBC 6 Music; AIM Outstanding Contribution 2025.
Grover Washington Jr.
Grover Washington Jr. (1943–1999) was an American jazz saxophonist from Buffalo, New York, whose blend of soul-jazz, funk, and pop made him a founder of smooth jazz.
Gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz, also called jazz manouche or Hot Club swing, is a 1930s French jazz style created by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli's Quintette du Hot Club de France, defined by la pompe rhythm guitar, Selmer-Maccaferri guitars, violin, and no drums.
Hard bop
Hard bop: East Coast jazz style of the mid-1950s to mid-1960s extending bebop with blues, gospel, and R&B grooves; key figures Blakey, Silver, Davis, Rollins; labels Prestige, Blue Note, Savoy.
Head Hunters
Head Hunters is Herbie Hancock's October 1973 Columbia album with the Headhunters band (Maupin, Jackson, Summers, Mason), the best-selling jazz record of its time, later platinum, and a jazz-funk fusion landmark.
Hipster (1940s subculture)
The hipster of the 1940s was a member of the jazz counterculture built around bebop, defined by distinctive slang, dress, and a stance apart from mainstream white America.
In a Silent Way
In a Silent Way is Miles Davis's July 30, 1969 Columbia album, his first fully electric record and a foundation of jazz fusion, built by Teo Macero from February 1969 jam tapes with McLaughlin, Zawinul, Shorter, Hancock, Corea, Holland, and Williams.
International Jazz Day
International Jazz Day is an annual UNESCO observance on 30 April, proclaimed in 2011 at Herbie Hancock's initiative to highlight jazz's role in uniting people worldwide.
Japanese jazz (日本のジャズ)
Japanese jazz (日本のジャズ, jazz in Japan): jazz practiced in Japan from Taishō-era arrival via North American shipping routes, through wartime ban, postwar jazz kissa boom, to internationally recognized artists like Akiyoshi Toshiko.
Jazz
Jazz is a family of American music that arose in New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century. It is defined by improvisation, syncopation, and harmonic complexity.
Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was the 1920s and early 1930s period, named by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when jazz music spread from New Orleans to national and worldwide popularity amid Prohibition, speakeasies, flappers, the Harlem nightclub scene, and the rise of big bands before the Swing Era.
Jazz festival
A jazz festival brings several jazz ensembles together over days in one or more venues, first presented in France in the late 1940s and at Newport in 1954.
Jazz Foundation of America
The Jazz Foundation of America is a New York nonprofit founded in 1989 that provides emergency financial, medical, and housing help to jazz and blues musicians.
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion blends jazz improvisation with rock, funk, and electric instrumentation; launched by Miles Davis's In a Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970), and carried by Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock.
Jazz guitar
Jazz guitar is a style defined by seventh-chord harmony and improvisation. Early figures include Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian, who made it a lead instrument.
Jazz Institute of Chicago
The Jazz Institute of Chicago is a nonprofit organization founded in 1969 to preserve and nurture jazz in Chicago through education, archives, and free concert series.
Jazz scale
Jazz scale: a scale or mode paired with a chord for improvisation, central to chord-scale theory taught at Berklee. Covers the seven modes, melodic minor modes, blues, bebop, altered, and diminished scales, their bebop-to-modal origins, and documented pedagogical limits.
Jazz standard
A jazz standard is a composition, from the Great American Songbook, blues, or jazz originals, held in continuing esteem and used as the basis of jazz arrangements and improvisations; most originated 1929–1940, with "Body and Soul" the most recorded.
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith (James Oscar Smith, 1928-2005), American jazz organist from Norristown, Pennsylvania, called the Charlie Parker of the Hammond B-3; Blue Note and Verve soul-jazz pioneer, NEA Jazz Master 2005.
Joey Alexander
Joey Alexander (Josiah Alexander Sila), born 2003 in Denpasar, Bali, is an Indonesian jazz pianist and composer, self-taught by ear, first Indonesian Grammy nominee, with eight albums as a leader including My Favorite Things and Celestial Keeper.
John Coltrane discography
John Coltrane discography: the recorded catalog of saxophonist John Coltrane (1926–1967) across Prestige, Blue Note, Atlantic, and Impulse!, organized by session date, plus posthumous releases and 2026 centennial sets.
John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin (born 1942) is an English jazz-fusion guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti with Zakir Hussain, and a Miles Davis and Tony Williams Lifetime collaborator.
John Scofield
John Scofield (born 1951) is an American jazz guitarist and composer, Berklee graduate and Miles Davis band member 1982–1985, known for a distorted blues-inflected post-bop and funk style, over 30 leader albums, and three Grammy Awards.
Kamasi Washington
Kamasi Washington (born 1981, Los Angeles) is an American tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader; his 2015 triple album The Epic and work on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly made him a leading figure in modern jazz.
Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue: Miles Davis's 1959 Columbia Records album, recorded March 2 and April 22, 1959 with Coltrane, Evans, and Adderley; the definitive modal jazz record and the best-selling jazz album of all time.
Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton (born 1948, Torrance, California), also known as Mr. 335, is an American session guitarist and contemporary jazz artist who played on over 3,000 sessions and 100 gold albums, joined the Crusaders and Fourplay, and won four Grammys from 19 nominations.
Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan (Edward Lee Morgan, 1938–1972), Philadelphia-born hard bop trumpeter and Blue Note star, leader of The Sidewinder (1964) and Cornbread, Jazz Messengers member, shot dead at Slug's aged 33.
Leo Pellegrino
Leo Pellegrino (Leo P), born 1991 in Pittsburgh, is an American baritone saxophonist of Too Many Zooz and formerly Lucky Chops, known for dancing while playing, subway busking videos, the 2017 BBC Proms Moanin' solo, and work with Beyoncé.