| Tympany Five | ... uis Jordan, a popular jazz and R&B performer during the 1940s, and Jordan's | performing "Caldonia" in a short film |
| Traffic | ... on of the blues-rock of groups like The Moody Blues, Small Faces, The Move, | and Cream, and developing into , the influence of early rock and roll bega ... |
| Belle & Sebastian | ... sis on melody and classical instrumentation, with artists like Arcade Fire, | and Rufus Wainwright. The emo movement, which had grown out of the hardcor ... |
| The Bum Notes | ... a (The Trash Couple) which aired on Canal+. The theme music was provided by | , a band that once featured Edmondson, and is a cover of "Last Night" by T ... |
| Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 | ... ol of the Netherlands following the Napoleonic Wars, under the terms of the | , but not before he was officially replaced by John Fendall on account of ... |
| Voice Crack | ... of pure electronic free improvisation. In 1984, the Swiss improvisation duo | started making use of strictly "cracked everyday electronics". More recent ... |
| Camelia Brass Band | ... of the city while helping black children escape poverty. The leader of the | , D'Jalma Ganier, taught Louis Armstrong to play trumpet |
| Traffic | ... in Rhode Island, Binfen no.7 in Ohio). His main influences are Pink Floyd, | , Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian c ... |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago | ... n Francisco. Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Sarah Webster Fabio, | , Avotcja, Reginald Lockett, Emory Douglas, Samuel Napier, Bobby Hutton, H ... |
| Weather Report | ... xed meters, odd time signatures, syncopation, complex chords and harmonies. | 's debut album was in the electronic, psychedelic-jazz vein. The self-titl ... |
| Original Dixieland Jass Band | ... to Chicago with Stein's Dixie Jass Band, which was to become famous as the | , but Nunez left the band shortly before they made their first recordings |
| Return to Forever | ... cross-over success through jazz-rock fusion with bands like Weather Report, | , The Headhunters and The Mahavishnu Orchestra who also influence this gen ... |
| Company Week | In 1976 Derek Bailey founded and curated | , the first of an annual series of improvised music festivals in which Bai ... |
| Spontaneous Music Ensemble | ... ve Holland. These players often collaborated under the umbrella name of the | , recording the seminal album Karyobin for Island Records in 1968. In this ... |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra | ... mold of bands such as Chick Corea's Return to Forever and John McLaughlin's | as well as creative funk master Stevie Wonder. In 1977, their friend Sid M ... |
| Soft Machine | ... Costello's own version, a version of the song was a minor UK hit for former | drummer Robert Wyatt |
| Dirty Dozen Brass Band | Byrne wrote the | -inspired score for Robert Wilson's Opera The Knee Plays from . Some of th ... |
| Soft Machine | ... he name of a linking composition by the 1970s British avant-garde rock band | . It was named after Andrews because it was an off-the-cuff link between u ... |
| Miracle Fortress | The town is referenced in the | song "Next Train. |
| Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians | ... ley, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Roger Smith, and John Butcher. As with the | (AACM), many of these players began in jazz, but gradually pushed the musi ... |
| Traffic | ... Guy Stevens, a former A&R executive who had worked with Mott the Hoople and | , the double album was a mix of punk rock, reggae, ska, rockabilly, tradit ... |
| Pat Metheny Group | ... n Germany in the 1970s with artists including Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, the | , Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, John Surman and ... |
| The Apples in Stereo | ... ices, Semisonic, Jimmy Eat World, The Click Five, The Dandy Warhols, Sloan, | , Cotton Mather, and Fastball. The influence of power pop is also apparent ... |
| Pat Metheny Group | ... atic spoken-word interlude on "Election Day"), bass player Mark Egan of the | (whose very distinctive fretless sound can be recognised in "The Promise", ... |
| Rova Saxophone Quartet | Riley's collaborators have included the | , Pauline Oliveros, the ARTE Quartett, and, as mentioned, the Kronos Quart ... |
| Steely Dan | ... America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wings, Bread and | as well as the further rise of such popular, influential rhythm and blues ... |
| The Real Group | ... , as performed by ABBA when the king and queen got married. Frida contacted | and together they performed the song (lip-synching, not live as previously ... |
| Return to Forever | ... h as recent performances by story-teller Garrison Keillor, and music groups | and George Thorogood. South by Southwest (SXSW) is hosted downtown and is ... |
| Kool & the Gang | # "Open Sesame" performed by | - 4:0 |
| Tympany Five | ... e first innovator of this style, featured an upright bass in his group, the | . The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the ... |
| Medeski Martin & Wood | ... ummer/percussionist John Hollenbeck, guitarist John Scofield and the groups | and The Bad Plus. Outside of the US, the Swedish group E.S.T. and British ... |
| The Tony Williams Lifetime | ... hn McLaughlin, Holland, and Williams. Williams quit Davis to form the group | with McLaughlin and organist Larry Young. Their debut record of that year ... |
| Asleep at the Wheel | ... ding Donald Fagen, Ronnie Wood, Grand Funk Railroad, Diana Ross, B.B. King, | , Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Blues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, Rob ... |
| Swans | ... bands and powerful drums, and was pioneered by bands including Sonic Youth, | , Big Black and Butthole Surfers. A number of prominent indie rock record ... |
| British West Indies | ... teen were part of a larger set of colonies in British America. Those in the | , Newfoundland, the Province of Quebec, Nova Scotia and East Florida remai ... |
| Arditti Quartet | ... estival (Stockhausen-Stiftung 2007). The work has also been recorded by the | |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra | ... garde classical music, and rock and pop music. Guitarist John McLaughlin's | played a mix of rock and jazz infused with East Indian influences. The ECM ... |
| Kronos Quartet | ... nces in Australia and overseas and recordings by leading groups such as the | . In the next generation, Brett Dean, himself a violist of note and a comp ... |
| The Bad Plus | ... ollenbeck, guitarist John Scofield and the groups Medeski Martin & Wood and | . Outside of the US, the Swedish group E.S.T. and British groups Acoustic ... |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago | ... bonist George Lewis, guitarist Derek Bailey, and the improvising groups The | and AMM |
| Miles Davis Quintet | ... y Blue Note Records artists; and Paul Chambers (1935–1969), a member of the | (including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue) and many other ... |
| Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 | ... Dutch de jure Governor, Elout, certainly led at least in part to the later | . Raffles looked into alternatives in the area – namely Bangka, which had ... |
| Casiopea | ... us and Stanley Clarke. Jazz fusion was also popular in Japan where the band | released over thirty fusion albums |
| Weather Report | ... tegory” and awarded it Album of the Year in the magazine’s polls that year. | 's subsequent releases were refreshingly creative funk-jazz works |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | ... and small venues worldwide. In 2004–2005 they toured jointly with the band | ; a DVD recorded during that tour, Chicago/Earth, Wind & Fire - Live at th ... |
| The Headhunters | ... through jazz-rock fusion with bands like Weather Report, Return to Forever, | and The Mahavishnu Orchestra who also influence this genre and many others ... |
| Chicago | ... p at the Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Blues Traveler, Cher, | , Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, Robert Plant, ... |
| The Headhunters | ... u Orchestra emerged in 1971 and were soon followed by Return to Forever and | . Although jazz purists protested the blend of jazz and rock, some of jazz ... |
| Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 | ... upied the Cape again in 1806 following the battle of Bloubergstrand. In the | , Cape Town was permanently ceded to Britain. It became the capital of the ... |
| Can | ... music" (Texte 4, 505). Founding members of Cologne-based experimental band | , Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay, both studied with Stockhausen at the Co ... |
| Modern Jazz Quartet | ... dings by Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Stan Getz and the | usually have a "lighter" sound which avoided the aggressive tempos and har ... |
| Original Dixieland Jass Band | ... st examples of jazz on record. Taking note of the commercial success of the | and the Original Creole Orchestra, Sweatman abruptly changed his sextet's ... |
| The Tony Williams Lifetime | In 1969, he formed a trio, | , with John McLaughlin on guitar, and Larry Young on organ. Jack Bruce joi ... |
| Swans | ... ll, and from the US, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Elliott Sharp, | , the Ordinaires and Arto Lindsay. This was followed by the after-hours Sp ... |
| Weather Report | ... cians who worked with Davis formed the four most influential fusion groups: | and Mahavishnu Orchestra emerged in 1971 and were soon followed by Return ... |
| The Beyman Bros | He is also currently a member of the musical group | , which he formed with his childhood friend David Nichtern and Spinal Tap' ... |
| Blood, Sweat & Tears | ... rican singer and pianist Harry Connick, Jr.. Bobby Colomby, the drummer for | , was a friend of Reiner's and recommended Harry Connick, Jr., giving the ... |
| Memphis Jug Band | ... here are also recordings featuring the harmonica in jug bands, of which the | is the most famous. But the harmonica still represented a toy instrument i ... |
| Gocoo | ... ko Drum Master is based around taiko. One example of a modern Taiko band is | |
| The Brunettes | ... nclude Die! Die! Die!, Shocking Pinks, Stomp Box, Pig Out, The Mint Chicks, | , The Bleeders and Soulseller |
| Chicago | ... , Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, John Denver, The Eagles, America, | , The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wings, Bread and Steely Dan as w ... |
| The Field Mice | ... d certainly developed far more on that label than any band except, perhaps, | . Starting with a fairly conventional melancholy guitar pop sound on Lyceu ... |
| Belle & Sebastian | ... , Jarvis Cocker, Razorlight, Brian Eno, M.I.A., Ian Brown, The Futureheads, | , Damon Albarn, Dizzee Rascal, Kaiser Chiefs, Robyn Hitchcock, Super Furry ... |
| Count Basie Orchestra | ... complex as the riff-based variations in the head arrangements played by the | |
| Chicago | ... sician Peter Cetera, former bass guitarist and lead singer of the rock band | |
| Louisiana Five | ... ith Kelly through 1918, at the start of 1919 Nunez helped form the band the | led by drummer Anton Lada. They quickly became one of the most popular ban ... |
| Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 | The | finally settled the score in the East Indies. The British gained dominance ... |
| British West Indies | ... f Quebec. There were other colonies in the Americas as well, largely in the | . These colonies remained loyal to the crown |
| King Crimson | ... rock genres with bands such as Yes, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Rush, Genesis, | , Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues and Soft Machine. H ... |
| Weather Report | ... school achieve cross-over success through jazz-rock fusion with bands like | , Return to Forever, The Headhunters and The Mahavishnu Orchestra who also ... |
| Asleep at the Wheel | ... ence in the national music scene, with local artists such as Willie Nelson, | , and Stevie Ray Vaughan and iconic music venues such as the Armadillo Wor ... |
| Jazztronik | ... ecome popular with a growing number of young Japanese. Native DJs such as ( | ), the two brothers Okino Shuya and Okino Yoshihiro of Kyoto Jazz Massive, ... |
| Wavves | ... s. In 2009, noise was said to be trending heavily with "lo-fi" acts such as | and Times New Viking |
| The New Pornographers | ... displayed by North American bands such as Gin Blossoms, Fountains of Wayne, | , Guided By Voices, Semisonic, Jimmy Eat World, The Click Five, The Dandy ... |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra | ... th Davis formed the four most influential fusion groups: Weather Report and | emerged in 1971 and were soon followed by Return to Forever and The Headhu ... |
| New Orleans Rhythm Kings | ... he infamous Friar's Inn, where he listened to and sometimes sat in with the | . He also traveled to the predominantly African-American South Side to lis ... |
| Quintette du Hot Club de France | ... beginnings of a distinct European style of jazz emerged in France with the | which began in 1934. Belgian guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt popularized ... |
| Spontaneous Music Ensemble | The | was formed by John Stevens and Trevor Watts in the mid-1960s and included, ... |
| Kronos Quartet | ... ophone Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, the ARTE Quartett, and, as mentioned, the | |
| The Wolverines | ... ed to his original sound. He first recorded with a Midwestern jazz ensemble | in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkett ... |
| Modern Jazz Quartet | ... zy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the | ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter (born 1937), who has appeared on 3,500 album ... |
| Los Campesinos! | ... ones and responsible for Melys, Super Furry Animals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, | , The Longcut, and, for a time, Cerys Matthews) and Ankstmusik, the label ... |
| Original Dixieland Jass Band | The | made the music's first recordings early in 1917, and their "Livery Stable ... |
| Return to Forever | ... r Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra emerged in 1971 and were soon followed by | and The Headhunters. Although jazz purists protested the blend of jazz and ... |
| E.S.T. | ... edeski Martin & Wood and The Bad Plus. Outside of the US, the Swedish group | and British groups Acoustic Ladyland, Led Bib and Polar Bear gained popula ... |
| The Dorsey Brothers | ... the early-to-mid-1930s, Miller also worked as a trombonist and arranger in | , first when they were a Brunswick studio group (under their own name and ... |
| British West Indies | ... land or out of business. In addition, the brought in many workers from the | , especially Jamaica and Belize, both to work on the plantations, but also ... |
| Red Hot Peppers | ... Rhythm Kings in an early mixed-race collaboration, then in 1926 formed his | . There was a larger market for jazzy dance music played by white orchestr ... |
| The Magnetic Fields | ... sion documentary about the Radiophonic Workshop, was broadcast on BBC Four. | titled the first track of their album Holiday after the BBC Radiophonic Wo ... |
| The Magnetic Fields | ... Fiddler songs by alternative bands such as The Residents, Negativland, and | |
| Za Ondekoza | ... ed Sukeroku Daiko and his bandmate Seido Kobayashi. 1969 saw a group called | founded by Tagayasu Den; Za Ondekoza gathered together young performers wh ... |
| New Orleans Rhythm Kings | ... e band, also popularizing scat singing. Jelly Roll Morton recorded with the | in an early mixed-race collaboration, then in 1926 formed his Red Hot Pepp ... |
| Nihilist Spasm Band | ... ing was manipulated, further distorting the sounds being recorded. Canada's | , the world's longest-running noise act, was formed in 1965 in London, Ont ... |
| The Dorsey Brothers | ... were being driven to Florida in preparation for a tour) with the backing of | orchestra |
| Kronos Quartet | Riley began his long-lasting association with the | when he met founder David Harrington while at Mills. Over the course of hi ... |
| Borbetomagus | ... cept of art itself expanded and groups like Survival Research Laboratories, | and Elliott Sharp embraced and extended the most dissonant and least appro ... |
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| Kronos Quartet | | recorded a string quartet arrangement of Esquivel's song "Mini Skirt" for ... |
| Glenn Miller Orchestra | Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco surprised many people when he led the | in the late sixties and early seventies. De Franco was already the veteran ... |
| Can | ... cant in continental Europe, allowing bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, | , and Faust to circumvent the language barrier. Their synthesiser-heavy "K ... |
| Return to Forever | ... nsemble called Mind Power (1975) in the mold of bands such as Chick Corea's | and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra as well as creative funk master ... |
| Klangforum Wien | ... used to refer to the composers surrounding the Viennese new music ensemble | , including its founder Beat Furrer and other late modernists such as Helm ... |
| The Cinematic Orchestra | ... to more band-based improvised jazz with electronic elements such as that of | , Kobol, and the Norwegian "future jazz" style pioneered by Bugge Wesselto ... |
| University of the West Indies | ... overnment's application was approved to become a contributory member of the | (UWI). Bermuda's membership is slated to allow Bermudian students to enter ... |
| Kronos Quartet | Clarinetist Don Byron has recorded and performed Scott's music, as have the | , Steroid Maximus (J. G. Thirlwell), Jon Rauhouse, The Tiptons (with Amy D ... |
| The Shins | ... ir 1994 album Quick. In addition, the song "So Says I" by indie rock outfit | alludes to the socialist interpretation of More's Utopia |
| Soft Machine | ... sis, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues and | . Hard rock and Heavy metal also emerged among British bands Led Zeppelin, ... |
| Anglo-Dutch Treaty | ... fforts to reach an agreement between the nations that eventually became the | of London of 1824, as well as to send instructions to Raffles to undertake ... |
| Fuse One | With the group | , he released two albums in 1980 and 1982. In 1985, Williams recorded an a ... |
| The Postal Service | ... ding Broadcast from the UK, Justice from France, Lali Puna from Germany and | , and Ratatat and BOBBY from the US, mixing a variety of indie sounds with ... |
| British West Indies | ... were supposed to be excluded by the navigation laws from commerce with the | , though with the concealed or very slightly disguised assistance of the p ... |