Historical Dictionary of Jazz. John S. Davis

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СКАЧАТЬ or cornet, Cherry joined Ornette Coleman’s group in 1957 and appeared on Coleman’s first seven albums. Those albums, in addition to the group’s celebrated stint at the Five Spot Café in New York (starting in 1959), established Cherry at the forefront of the avant-garde movement. During this time he also recorded with John Coltrane (The Avant-Garde) in 1960. After leaving Coleman’s group, Cherry went on to play with Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, and Albert Ayler. In Europe between 1964 and 1966, Cherry recorded his two most critically successful albums, Complete Communion (1965) and Symphony for Improvisers (1966). Thereafter, he toured Europe, Africa, and Asia and became known for incorporating non-Western musical elements into his music, writing for and performing with wood flutes, gamelan, and other non-Western instruments. Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s, he would play with several groups, including Codona, Old and New Dreams (a group dedicated to playing Coleman’s music), Nu, and the Multikulti orchestra and quintet. While in Spain in 1995, Cherry died from liver failure caused by hepatitis. See also POCKET TRUMPET.

      CHESTNUT, CYRUS (1963–)

      Chestnut was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and began learning piano at the age of seven. By the age of nine, he was studying classical music at the Peabody Institute. He earned a degree in jazz composition and arranging from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1986 through 1993, Chestnut toured with a number of artists, including vocalist Jon Hendricks, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, and Wynton Marsalis, and as a member of the Betty Carter Trio. In 1993 he signed with Atlantic Records and released four albums over the next five years. Chestnut collaborated with opera legend Kathlee Battle on the album So Many Stars (1995, Sony Masterworks), which then led to a fall 1996 U.S. tour together. He continues to tour with his trio, performing at jazz festivals throughout the world as well as at clubs and concert halls. He regularly performs with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra.

      CHIAROSCURO

      A record label and company established in New York in 1970. During the 1970s, Chiaroscuro issued albums by artists including Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, and Teddy Wilson and also by some free jazz musicians. The label was active into the 1990s.

      CHICAGO FOOTWARMERS

      A recording group formed in Chicago in 1927, it also went by the names the Dixieland Thumpers and the State Street Ramblers.

      CHICAGO JAZZ

      A variation of the New Orleans early jazz style created by White musicians in and around Chicago during the 1920s. Famous musicians associated with the style include Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Bix Beiderbecke, and Frankie Trumbauer. The Chicago style was characterized by more frenetic rhythms, better instrumental technique, and a focus on the soloist. In contrast with the earlier New Orleans style, piano was typically used in place of banjo, and the upright bass in place of tuba.

      CHILDERS, MARION “BUDDY” (1926–2007)

      A lead trumpet player, Buddy Childers got his start at age 16 playing in Stan Kenton’s band in 1942. He played with Kenton until 1954, also appearing with numerous other bands, including those of Woody Herman (1949) and Tommy Dorsey (1951–1952). In the 1950s and 1960s, Childers worked as a freelance musician in Los Angeles and spent seven years in Las Vegas (1959–1966). In the 1970s and 1980s, Childers performed with many big bands, notably the Toshiko Akiyoshi–Lew Tabackin Big Band and Bob Florence’s big band. He served as Frank Sinatra Jr.’s musical director starting in 1983 and died from cancer in 2007.

      CHILTON, JOHN (1932–2106)

      British jazz trumpet player and jazz scholar. Chilton formed his own band in 1954, joined Bruce Turner’s Jump Band in 1958, and played in a few other groups before becoming musical director for George Melly in 1971. He was noted mainly for his jazz texts, including Who’s Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street, Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story, and biographies of Sidney Bechet and Coleman Hawkins. His autobiography, Hot Jazz, Warm Feet, was published in 2007 by Northway Publications. See also ENGLAND.

      CHIRILLO, JAMES (1953–)

      A guitarist, banjoist, composer, and arranger, Chirillo studied music at the University of North Texas, playing guitar for the school’s One O’Clock Lab Band. After his studies, he began performing with popular singers before joining the U.S. Army Jazz Knights big band in 1979. Following the completion of his enlistment, he moved to New York City in 1982. He was a member of Benny Goodman’s last band from 1985 to 1986 and was a member of the Buck Clayton Orchestra from 1987 to 1991. He has performed with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. During his career he has appeared on more than 70 albums with artists such as Joe Wilder, Bob Mintzer, pianist Marcus Roberts, and Kenny Davern. From 1992 to 1999 he was a member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, directed by Gunther Schuller and David Baker.

      CHISHOLM, GEORGE (1915–1997)

      Scottish trombonist. He was inspired to play the trombone by hearing recordings of Jack Teagarden. In 1937 he played in a jam session in London with Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Carter that helped to start his career. He recorded albums with both Carter and Waller in the late 1930s. He joined the Squadronaires in 1939 and in 1950 was a member of the BBC Radio Show Band. In the late 1950s and 1960s he appeared on the television show The Black and White Minstrel Show as a musician and a comic. In the 1960s and 1970s he was a guest soloist with Alex Welsh’s orchestra, and in the 1970s and 1980s he appeared with Keith Smith’s Hefty Jazz and his own band, the Gentlemen of Jazz. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1984 and retired from playing in the 1990s before dying in 1997.

      CHIZHIK, LEONID (1947–)

      A Russian pianist, Leonid Chizhik graduated from the M.I. Glinka State Conservatory in Gorky in 1970. Appearing in various trios and orchestras from the mid-1960s through the 1970s, he was the first pianist in the former Soviet Union to program complete recitals of improvised music. The founder of the Chizhik Jazz Center in Moscow in 1989, he was also director general of the Moscow Art Center beginning in 1990. He moved to Germany in 1991 to teach piano at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich and at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar.

      CHOCOLATE DANDIES

      Named after a stage show by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the Chocolate Dandies were various recording groups who recorded from the late 1920s through the mid-1940s. The most well-known group contained the combination of Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins and produced some of the most important examples of the swing style.

      CHOICE

      Record label and company founded in New York in 1972 that issued many recordings by solos, duos, and small СКАЧАТЬ