• Loft jazz (or the loft scene or loft era) was a cultural phenomenon that occurred in New York City during the mid-1970s. Gary Giddins described it as follows:...
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    aileenarchive.or.jp. 2020. "Jazz Loft the Movie". WNYC. Retrieved January 17, 2024. Sara Fishko also produced the Jazz Loft Radio Series for WNYC, comprising...
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    Loft Jazz meant Free Jazz in the Seventies" and Studio Rivbea was "the most famous of the lofts". The loft was important in the development of jazz because...
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  • Chance and the Contortions' 1979 album Buy. Punk jazz is closely related to free jazz, no wave, and loft jazz, and has since significantly inspired post-hardcore...
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  • Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions is a series of five albums recorded May 14–23, 1976 at Studio Rivbea, a loft jazz space in New York City, run...
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  • avant-garde jazz was shifting to New York City. Arrivals included Arthur Blythe, James Newton, and Mark Dresser, beginning the period of New York loft jazz. As...
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    Muhal Richard Abrams (category African-American jazz composers)
    text-sound, and electronic textures." He was involved in the local Loft Jazz scene in New York. In 1982, he presented an orchestral work at that year's...
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  • Fred Hopkins (category Air (free jazz trio) members)
    Murray. He was a member of the AACM, and a frequent participant in the loft jazz scene of the 1970s. He also co-led a number of albums with the composer...
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  • influential during the Loft Jazz scene of the mid-1970s in NYC. It was located on Broadway in SOHO and close to two other noted Loft Jazz venues: RivBea and...
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  • White. Inside Job was recorded during the loft jazz festival documented on Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions. In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn...
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  • tunes from the Loft Jazz era. Also popular are its annual critics and readers polls of the top artists, albums and songs in jazz. JazzTimes.com's most...
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  • album) or the title song (see below), 1994 Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions, an album series with performances by various artists, 1977 Wild...
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    Luke Stewart (musician) (category Avant-garde jazz musicians)
    nonprofit CapitalBop since 2010, curating the organization's longstanding "Loft Jazz" concert series and writing music criticism for its website. In 2020,...
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  • article for The New York City Jazz Record, George Kanzler wrote: "For those who missed the Sun Ra Arkestra and Loft jazz of the 20th Century, this is a...
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    Alan Michael Braufman (category American jazz saxophonists)
    played a seminal role in New York City's early-seventies loft jazz scene. In 1974, Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddins wrote a review of Braufman's performance...
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  • The Quest (Sam Rivers album) (category Sam Rivers (jazz musician) live albums)
    was active from 1972 until 1978, and was influential in the New York loft jazz scene centered around Rivers' Studio Rivbea. Although the group toured...
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  • Kharma Records (category Jazz record labels)
    importer/exporter of Jazz records and his loft in downtown Manhattan that was filled with Jazz records was mentioned in several books about the Jazz loft scene including...
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  • Joe Lee Wilson (category American jazz singers)
    Hubbard, and Jackie McLean. During the 1970s, Wilson operated a jazz performance loft in New York's NoHo district known as the Ladies' Fort at 2 Bond...
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  • photos and an extensive essay by jazz scholar Michael Heller, all of which help to document aspects of the loft jazz era of the early 1970s. The first...
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    Dave Burrell (category American jazz pianists)
    "Dave" Burrell (born September 10, 1940) is an American jazz pianist. He has played with many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion...
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  • Paragon (Sam Rivers album) (category Sam Rivers (jazz musician) albums)
    was active from 1972 until 1978, and was influential in the New York loft jazz scene centered around Rivers' Studio Rivbea. Although the group toured...
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  • Ricochet (Sam Rivers album) (category Sam Rivers (jazz musician) live albums)
    was active from 1972 until 1978, and was influential in the New York loft jazz scene centered around Rivers' Studio Rivbea. Although the group toured...
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  • Live at the Loft is the second album by Danish jazz saxophonist Lotte Anker with her trio with pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver, which...
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  • important and active participants in the New York-based loft jazz scene. In a review for All About Jazz, John Sharpe wrote: "While all three musicians are...
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  • Stanley Crouch (category Jazz writers)
    the underground New York loft jazz scene. While working as a drummer, Crouch conducted the booking for an avant-garde jazz series at the club, as well...
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    Joe Lovano (category Jazz record producers)
    that the band hoped to interpret in the spirit of the avant-garde jazz and loft jazz of the 1960s. Bird Songs (2011) was a tribute to Charlie Parker. West...
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  • in documenting the loft jazz era, remarking: "This fine set is a fitting testament to Muntu and the loft era." In an article for JazzWord, Ken Waxman wrote:...
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  • Harth went for three months to work with the loft jazz scene in New York City. In 1979, Harth founded a punk jazz group with vocalist Christoph Anders, from...
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  • Live at Ali's Alley (category Cadence Jazz Records live albums)
    and energetic." The authors of MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide called the recording "a loft-jazz classic with an unusual instrumentation including...
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  • Marion Brown (category American jazz alto saxophonists)
    York Loft Jazz Sessions) (Douglas / Casablanca); Brown appears on one track; reissued in 1999 by Knit Classics on Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions...
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