Subgenre

Modal Jazz

72 profiles tagged Modal Jazz, A-Z.

Modal jazz emerged in the late 1950s as an alternative to bebop's dense, rapidly moving chord changes, with musicians improvising instead over static or slowly shifting musical modes and scales. It is distinguished by sparser harmonic movement, longer sustained chords, and melodic improvisation that draws on a mode's characteristic intervals rather than outlining chord changes. Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue, along with the subsequent work of John Coltrane and pianist Bill Evans, established the style.

Aaron Goldberg Piano Anat Fort Piano Avishai Cohen (Trumpet) Trumpet Avri Borochov Double bass Bert Seager Piano Bill Evans Piano ✦ 1929–1980 Billy Harper Tenor saxophone Carla Marciano Alto Saxophone Cinzia Gizzi Piano Dan Papirany Piano Daniele Tittarelli Alto Saxophone Danilo Rea Piano Elvin Jones Drums ✦ 1927–2004 Enrico Rava Trumpet Enzo Randisi Vibraphone ✦ 1935–2006 Eraldo Volonté Tenor saxophone ✦ 1918–2003 Eriko Shimizu Piano Flavio Boltro Trumpet Francesco Zampini Guitar Fumio Itabashi Piano Giorgio Albanese Accordion Giorgio Azzolini Double bass ✦ 1928–2024 Giovanni Sanna Passino Trumpet Guido Manusardi Piano Hajime Yoshizawa Piano Herbie Hancock Piano Hiroshi Fukumura Trombone Itamar Borochov Trumpet Jeff Ballard Drums Jimmy Cobb Drums ✦ 1929–2020 Jimmy Garrison Double bass ✦ 1934–1976 Joe Henderson Tenor saxophone ✦ 1937–2001 Joel Ross Vibraphone John Coltrane Tenor saxophone ✦ 1926–1967 Johnathan Blake Drums Kohsuke Mine Alto Koichi Matsukaze Alto saxophone ✦ 1948–2023 Linda Oh Double bass Mabumi Yamaguchi Tenor saxophone Makoto Terashita Piano Mark Turner Tenor saxophone Masahiro Kikuchi Piano ✦ 1942–2008 Masaru Imada Piano ✦ 1932–2025 McCoy Tyner Piano ✦ 1938–2020 Michel Rosciglione Double bass Miles Davis Trumpet ✦ 1926–1991 Mitsuaki Kanno Piano ✦ 1939–1983 Motohiko Hino Drums ✦ 1946–1999 Myron Walden Alto saxophone Nadav Remez Guitar Naosuke Miyamoto Double Bass Ofir Shwartz Piano Paul Chambers Double bass ✦ 1935–1969 Pharoah Sanders Tenor saxophone ✦ 1940–2022 Reuben Rogers Double bass Roberto Gatto Drums Roberto Manzin Alto Saxophone Ron Carter Double bass Ryojiro Furusawa Drums ✦ 1945–2011 Shai Maestro Piano Stefano Bollani Piano Takehiro Honda Piano ✦ 1945–2006 Takeo Moriyama Drums Tamio Kawabata Double bass ✦ 1947–2000 Teru Sakamoto Piano The Platina Band Wayne Shorter Tenor and soprano saxophone ✦ 1933–2023 Woody Shaw Trumpet ✦ 1944–1989 Wynton Kelly Piano ✦ 1931–1971 Yonathan Avishai Piano Yosuke Yamashita Piano Yuval Cohen Soprano saxophone

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