Sarah Vaughan -- her great self-titled album from 1954, including Clifford Brown as well as Mr. Haynes, has just been reissued by Verve -- was one of the most challenging jazz musicians of the century.
Much is made of the fact that Mr. Hutcherson's vibraphone was a key ingredient on some fairly advanced, conceptually challenging jazz records of the early 1960s, by Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Jackie McLean and others.
Goldberg's class performed a challenging jazz song for the reporters, followed by free-styling their own compositions.
As lead trumpeter in the ensembles of Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman and many others, Mr. Young had one of the more challenging tasks in jazz.
In three great records on the Blue Note label -- "Soundtrack to Human Motion," "Facing Left" and the new "Black Stars" -- the young pianist Jason Moran has proved that you can make challenging music in jazz that isn't simply property of the avant-garde.
SOLO PIANO SERIES, VERIZON MUSIC FESTIVAL NEW YORK -- A reasonable and challenging display of where jazz piano is right now.
After being discharged in 1946, he auditioned for Gillespie, who led one of the first big bands to play the complex and challenging new form of jazz known as bebop.
But it's a shame that people think jazz is relentlessly challenging, or that it's trying to be a club they can't join.
The more challenging sounds of Afro-Cuban jazz that drive Ronald K. Brown's "Open Door" aren't the only element that distinguishes Mr. Brown's treatment of Afro-Cuban material from Mr. Bigonzetti's.
The quintet was known for playing "a challenging, sweeping blend of rock, jazz, blues and other musical strains," The Times reported in 1991, and had a "power and subtlety" fostered by living communally in Topanga Canyon.
Even though the LP's most "commercial" recording, "Sweet Thing," initially was perceived as its focus track, Astral Weeks featured no hit singles, sales were not impressive (it finally having turned "gold" by 2001), and to new listeners raised on pop radio, it was a challenging amalgam of folky-blues, jazz, northern soul, and singer-songwriter-styled lyrics.
