Desmond was one of the most capable representatives of the "cool" tendency in alto saxophone jazz, he was know for having a lot of imagination. Herbie Hancock: Herbie was born in a musical family and started playing piano at the age of seven, and four years later he was performing the first movement of a Mozart concerto in a symphony orchestra...
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By the time he graduated, Herbie was already performing in Chicago jazz clubs and later on was offered a first date as a leader in May 1962. He then joined a quintet in which he composed several tunes which have become jazz standards. From 1971 to 1973 Hancock led a sextet which combined elements of jazz, rock, and African and Indian music with electronic devices and instruments, which was one of the first uses of electric in jazz...
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Transitions to Early Swing Jazz Swing era bands where also called "big bands" due to the large number of performers in the band while small combo band contained just a few players. Big bands where then broken into three sections based on brass players, reed players, and rhythm players (Gridley 84)...	4 / 1043
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