Mainstream jazz

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As mainstream jazz or mainstream (of English mainstream . Literally, main stream ') is defined as - in contrast to experimental jazz styles - the music of various representatives of jazz , pick up on the more traditional ways of playing. The term has changed several times in the history of jazz ; it is not recognized by jazz research and is not clearly defined.

Older definition

In the summer of 1954, Columbia Records began a series of recordings with jam sessions that went under the name of Buck Clayton . Stylistically, these ran under Mainstream Jazz , a term that was coined by Stanley Dance and used to designate the area between traditional jazz ( Dixieland , New Orleans jazz , Chicago jazz ) on the one hand and modern jazz on the other. The term, which was quickly picked up by jazz journalists, originally referred to the swing- bop mixture represented by the Jazz at the Philharmonic sessions . You could also call this area “Modern Swing ” after Doering . According to Ekkehard Jost , the term was initially synonymous with the contemporary manifestations of swing. The name often referred to musicians from the circle of the Count Basie Orchestra ( Jo Jones , Freddie Green ). This contemporary development of swing promoted producer John Hammond with the record series The Basie Bunch (1957-58).

Newer definitions

The term experienced a change in meaning in the course of the further development of jazz. In contrast to modern creative and fusion jazz , the audience and organizers identify contemporary jazz music, which takes up elements of swing , cool jazz and bebop style, as mainstream . After the waves of free jazz and fusion jazz, many jazz musicians orientated themselves again in the 1980s to more pleasing and more popular styles of playing. Here are particularly neo-traditionalists like Wynton Marsalis , as well as the neo-bop jazz to name AGENT,. In the course of this development, many jazz veterans celebrated a comeback with jazz bands that propagated more classical styles. These musicians include Stan Getz , Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson . The style of music is particularly promoted by the Concord Jazz label; on it appear publications by mainstream representatives such as Stan Getz, Monty Alexander , Ray Brown , Scott Hamilton , Barney Kessel , Ken Peplowski , Chris Potter , Toots Thielemans , Mel Tormé and others. Since the 1970s, however, the term has also been used to describe (according to Jost) all the tonal and rhythmic style areas of jazz with the exception of traditional jazz, free or creative jazz and fusion music.

Mainstream selection discography of the 1950s / 1960s

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