1956 in jazz

1956 in jazz
File:Musicians performing in Tom's Tavern club at Gonzalez and Railroad streets Pensacola, Florida.jpg Musicians performing in Tom's Tavern club at Gonzalez and Railroad streets: Pensacola, Florida, 1956
Decade	1950s in jazz
Music	1956 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1955 in jazz – 1957 in jazz

1956 in jazz:

Album releases

• Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus
• Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa
• Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
• Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
• George Russell:The Jazz Workshop
• Lennie Tristano: Manhattan Studio/ New York Improvisations
• Max Roach: Plus Four
• John Lewis: Grand Encounter
• Horace Silver: Six Pieces of Silver
• Kenny Burrell: All Night Long
• Lucky Thompson: Tricotism
• Phineas Newborn: Piano Artistry
• Miles Davis: Round About Midnight
• Zoot Sims: Tonite's Music Today
• Mel Torme: Touch
• Quincy Jones: This Is How I Feel About Jazz
• Stan Kenton: Cuban Fire
• Jimmy Giuffre: The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
• Jimmy Smith: A New Star A New Sound
• Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance

Standards

See also: List of post-1950 jazz standards

Deaths

• Achille Baquet, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
• Adrian Rollini, played the bass saxophone, piano, xylophone and many other instruments.
• Alex Hyde, American jazz bandleader and violinist
• Art Tatum, American jazz pianist and virtuoso
• Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter
• Don Kirkpatrick, American jazz pianist and arranger
• Frankie Trumbauer, American jazz saxophonists
• Fred Rich, Polish-born American bandleader and composer
• Harry Parry, Welsh jazz clarinetist and bandleader
• Joe Appleton, jazz saxophonist and clarinetist from the West Indies.
• Richie Powell, American bebop jazz pianist.
• Tommy Dorsey, American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer and bandleader
• Una Mae Carlisle, American jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter
• Valaida Snow, African-American jazz musician and entertainer

Births

Maria João

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Mary Coughlan performing live

• Aaron Scott, American composer and jazz drummer
• Alex Cline, American jazz drummer
• Anna Lyman, Canadian Jazz, Latin Vocalist composer, and recording artist of Mexican American extraction
• Bill Cunliffe, American jazz pianist and composer
• Bob Belden, American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader and producer
• Brian Lynch, American trumpeter
• Bruce Forman, American jazz guitarist
• Curtis Lundy, American double-bass player
• Denardo Coleman, American jazz drummer
• Denise Jannah, Dutch jazz vocalist
• Dianne Reeves, American jazz singer
• Doug Raney, American jazz guitarist
• Frank Kimbrough, American jazz pianist
• Franklin Kiermyer, Canadian drummer, composer and bandleader
• Gary Smulyan, American baritone saxophonist
• Hein van de Geyn, Dutch bassist, composer and band leader
• Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American free jazz bassist
• Jane Bunnett, Canadian soprano saxophonist, flautist and bandleader
• John Jorgenson, American guitarist
• Karl Denson, American jazz saxophonist, flutist and vocalist
• Kermit Driscoll, American bassist
• Kevin Norton, American percussionist and composer
• Lee Pui Ming, Hong Kong-born American pianist, vocalist, and composer
• Liz Story, American pianist and composer
• Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer
• Lucien Barbarin, American trombone player
• Maria João, Portuguese jazz singer
• Mary Coughlan, Irish jazz and folk singer and actress
• Mathias Claus, German jazz pianist and composer
• Michael Hashim, American jazz alto saxophonist
• Mike LeDonne, American pianist and organist
• Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian jazz pianist
• Mitchel Forman, jazz and fusion keyboard player
• Ned Rothenberg, American multi-instrumentalist and composer
• Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
• Nicola Stilo, jazz and pop flutist, guitarist and pianist
• Nils Landgren, Swedish trombone player
• Quanti Bomani, Afro-Caribbean multi-instrumentalist and composer
• Randy Johnston, American guitarist
• Raoul Björkenheim, Finnish-American jazz guitarist
• Steve Coleman, African-American saxophone player, composer and band leader
• Steve Dobrogosz, American pianist and composer
• Steve Williams (jazz drummer),
• T Lavitz, American keyboardist, composer and producer
• Tim Landers, American bass guitarist, composer and record producer
• Uri Caine, American pianist and composer
• Wayne Krantz, American guitarist
• Zeena Parkins, American harpist

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