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1959 – THE YEAR THAT CHANGED JAZZ
Designer: Bruce Fisher (Tour Design / 45 Original)
The year 1959 holds significant importance in the history of jazz, marking a pivotal moment in the genre’s evolution. Renowned jazz historian Nat Hentoff famously referred to 1959 as “the year that changed jazz,” highlighting the release of several seminal albums that pushed the boundaries of the genre and reshaped it forever. From Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” and Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” to Charle Mingus’ “Mingus Ah Um” and Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out.”
FEATURED ARTISTS
Abbey Lincoln Abbey Is Blue, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Moanin’,Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley Quintet Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um, Chet Baker Chet, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins Sonny Side Up, Donald Byrd Byrd in Hand, Duke Ellington Anatomy of a Murder, Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book, Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn, Idrees Sulieman, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell & Tommy Flanagan The Cats, Jackie McLean New Soil, Jimmy Smith The Sermon, John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette, Miles Davis Kind of Blue / Porgy & Bess, Nina Simone Little Girl Blue / Nina Simone at Town Hall / The Amazing Nina Simone, Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come / Tomorrow Is the Question!, Oscar Peterson Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins Newk’s Time, Sun Ra Sound Sun Pleasure, Sun Ra & His Arkestra Jazz in Silhouette, The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out, The Horace Silver Quintet & Trio Blowin’ The Blues Away, The Lester Young & Teddy Wilson QuartetPres & Teddy, Thelonious Monk 5 By Monk By 5.