People who write music incorporating jazz elements such as improvisation, jazz rhythms or blues harmony. While jazz composers also play instruments, they are identified primarily with their original works. Includes songwriters whose works are favored by jazz performers as well as those who write full ensemble scores for band or orchestra.
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  • Pevzner, Yan
    Jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator from New York. Biography, gig schedule, CD review.
  • Zinkovsky, Vladimir
    Romanian jazz composer and ASCAP member also plays gigs on piano and flute. Performance and CD reviews.
  • Bates, Django
    UK-based composer of improvisational works for large orchestras as well as smaller combos. Reviews, audio, photos, CDs.
  • Verve Records: Neal Hefti
    Artist page from the label details the arranger/composer's career including his charts for Woody Herman and Count Basie, and later film work.

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  • Jazz Composers Forum
    URL : jazzcomposersforum.com/index.html
    Welcome to the Jazz Composers Forum ... Click on a logo to visit a sponsor's web site. Dr. Darryl D. Nabors. Jazz Composers Forum © 2004 ...[2008/09/27]
  • Jazz Composers Collective
    URL : www.jazzcollective.com
    A nonprofit, musician-run organization dedicated to presenting the work of experimental composers.[2006/04/02]
  • Jazz Composers Forum
    URL : www.jazzcomposersforum.org/jcfws.html
    Jazz Composers Forum presents. The music of Dr. Dave Wilken and Rich Wiley ... The Jazz Composers Forum weekend event is a new opportunity for the students of ...[2005/09/19]
  • Jazz Composers Alliance
    URL : jazzcomposersalliance.org
    News: Saturday, November 22, 8 PM. Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra. CD Release Party ... (C)opyright 2004 Jazz Composers Alliance - All the rights reserved ...[2008/11/13]
  • About Jazz Composers Alliance
    URL : jazzcomposersalliance.org/about
    When The Jazz Composers Alliance was founded in 1985, its agenda included the ... The Jazz Composers Alliance also sustains an outreach program in Boston area ...[2008/11/13]
  • BMI.com |
    URL : www.bmi.com/genres/entry/533374
    Download the Jazz Composers Workshop Application PDF. Application instructions and requirements ... BMI Jazz Composers Top Downbeat' Readers Poll ...[2008/11/25]
  • Jazz Influence
    URL : www.geocities.com/jbonecampbell/jazzinfl.htm
    It involved composers taking their impressions of jazz and using these to write " ... number of French composers who began using jazz-coloured lyrical trombone ...[2002/06/11]
  • Jazz Composers Yahoo!
    URL : dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Jazz/Composers
    Yahoo! reviewed these sites and found them related to Jazz > Composers ... Jazz > Composers. Composers. SITE LISTINGSBy Popularity. 1 - 2049. Zorn, John ...[2008/11/13]
  • Charles Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop CD
    URL : cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/.../a/Jazz+Composers+Workshop.htm
    Charles Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop music CD album 9.85in stock at CD Universe, Digitally remastered at the Denon facility, Madison, Georgia, One of the finest ...[2008/11/18]
  • Jazz Artist/Composers
    URL : www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/1114/artist.htm
    ... files would be available if it were not for the Jazz Composers and Performers. ... are brief biographies of the some of the greatest Jazz Composers and Artist...[2001/09/11]
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