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1957 in jazz

Jazz in 1957: 120 albums, 11 standards, 53 births and 10 deaths.

Albums released in 1957

Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson 1957 · Verve Louis and the Angels 1957 A Swingin’ Affair! 1957 · Capitol Records A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra 1957 · Capitol Records Christmas Dreaming 1957 · Columbia Close to You 1957 · Capitol Records Where Are You? 1957 · Capitol Records Bing With a Beat 1957 · RCA Victor New Tricks... 1957 · Decca Records Go West, Man! 1957 · ABC-Paramount The Great Ray Charles 1957 · Atlantic Ella and Louis Again 1957 · His Master’s Voice Porgy & Bess 1957 · Verve Ella and Louis Again, Volume Two 1957 · His Master’s Voice Ella and Her Fellas 1957 · Decca Records Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book 1957 · Verve Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, Volume 2 1957 · Verve Like Someone in Love 1957 · Verve Bags’ Groove 1957 · Prestige ’Round About Midnight 1957 · Columbia Miles Ahead 1957 · Columbia Body and Soul 1957 · Verve Tony 1957 · Columbia The Beat of My Heart 1957 · Columbia Pretty Baby 1957 · Capitol Records Just One of Those Things 1957 · Capitol Records Love Is the Thing 1957 · Capitol Records This Is Nat “King” Cole 1957 · Capitol Records Plays Cole Porter - The Genius of Charlie Parker #5 1957 · Verve Coltrane 1957 · Prestige Soft Sands 1957 · Verve An Evening With Oscar Peterson 1957 · Clef Records Stormy Weather 1957 · RCA Victor The Dizzy Gillespie Story 1957 · Savoy Records Dizzy in Greece 1957 · Verve Dizzy at Home and Abroad 1957 · Atlantic Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band Jazz 1957 · American Recording Society Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith 1957 · Verve School Days 1957 · Regent Records Basie Rides Again 1957 · Verve Jazz Abroad 1957 · EmArcy Mulligan Meets Monk 1957 · Riverside Thelonious Himself 1957 · Riverside Brilliant Corners 1957 · Riverside This Is Fats 1957 · Imperial Here Stands Fats Domino 1957 · Imperial Dream Along With Me 1957 · RCA Camden We Get Letters 1957 · RCA Victor Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 1957 · Blue Note Way Out West 1957 · Contemporary The Sound of Sonny 1957 · Riverside Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 1957 · Blue Note Saxophone Colossus 1957 · Prestige Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from Pal Joey 1957 · Contemporary Double Play! 1957 · Contemporary Dream Street 1957 · Decca Records The Man I Love 1957 · Capitol Records Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin 1957 · Mercury Records Sarah Vaughan Sings 1957 · Masterseal Records Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin 1957 · Mercury Records Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows 1957 · Mercury Records Wonderful Sarah 1957 · Mercury Records Boy Meets Girl 1957 · Decca Records Sammy Jumps With Joya 1957 · Design Records Sammy Swings 1957 · Decca Records At the Waldorf Astoria 1957 · Live · RCA For Musicians Only 1957 · Verve Stan Getz and The Oscar Peterson Trio 1957 · Verve Rosemary Clooney and the HI-LOs & Hollywood's Best 1957 · Columbia Clooney Tunes 1957 · Columbia Ring Around Rosie 1957 · Columbia Quartet: Russ Freeman Chet Baker 1957 · Pacific Jazz The Clown 1957 · Atlantic A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry With Charles Mingus 1957 · Bethlehem Records Mingus Three 1957 · Jubilee East Coasting 1957 · Parlophone New Jazz Conceptions 1957 · Riverside Legend of the Jivaro 1957 · Capitol Records Jazz in ¾ Time 1957 · EmArcy Drummin’ the Blues 1957 · Liberty Hamp's Big Four 1957 · Verve The Swingin’ Miss “D” 1957 · EmArcy Orgy in Rhythm, Volume Two 1957 · Blue Note Orgy in Rhythm, Volume One 1957 · Blue Note Finger-Style Guitar 1957 · RCA Victor Hi-Fi in Focus 1957 · RCA Victor Tenor Conclave 1957 · Prestige Mating Call 1957 · Prestige Mal/2 1957 · Prestige Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors 1957 · Prestige Jazz by Sun Ra 1957 · Transition A Night at the Village Vanguard 1957 · Live · Blue Note Tour de Force 1957 · Verve Hoagy Sings Carmichael 1957 · Pacific Jazz Gil Evans & Ten 1957 · Prestige Sophisticated Swing 1957 · EmArcy Julie 1957 · Liberty Make Love to Me 1957 · Liberty About the Blues 1957 · Liberty The Genius of Coleman Hawkins 1957 · Verve The Hawk Flies High 1957 · Riverside Abbey Lincoln’s Affair... A Story of a Girl in Love 1957 · Liberty That’s Him! 1957 · Riverside Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at The Opera House 1957 · Live · Verve The Call of the Wildest 1957 · Capitol Records Play Phil Sunkel's Jazz Concerto Grosso 1957 · Electrola Music for Brass 1957 · Columbia The Shearing Piano 1957 · Capitol Records Birdland Dream Band, Volume 2 1957 · Vik Boy With Lots of... BRASS 1957 · EmArcy Modern Jazz Perspective 1957 · Columbia This Is New 1957 · Riverside Jazz Lab 1957 · Columbia Bass Hit! 1957 · Verve Warm 1957 · Columbia Wonderful! Wonderful! 1957 · Columbia After Glow 1957 · Decca Records Fresh and Fancy-Free 1957 · Capitol Records She's The Tops! 1957 · MGM Records Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 3 1957 · Blue Note

Standards written in 1957

TitleComposerKeyFormGroove
Bags' Groove Milt Jackson F major A · 12 Medium swing
I Remember Clifford Benny Golson E♭ major AABA · 32 Ballad
Tonight Bernstein-Sondheim A♭ major AB · 32 Bossa nova
Witchcraft Cy Coleman F major ABC · 40 Medium swing
Soul Eyes Mal Waldron C minor ABAC · 32 Ballad
Till There Was You Meredith Wilson E♭ major AABA · 32 Ballad
I Feel Pretty Bernstein-Sondheim C major AAB · 57 Jazz waltz
The Star-Crossed Lovers Strayhorn-Ellington D♭ major ABC · 22 Ballad
Lazy Bird John Coltrane G major AABAA · 43 Up-tempo swing
Eternal Triangle Sonny Stitt B♭ major AABA · 32 Up-tempo swing
Old Cape Cod Rothrock-Vakus-Jeffrey E♭ major AABA · 32 Ballad

Died in 1957

Ernie Henry 1926–1957 · American jazz saxophonist (1926–1957) Walter Page 1900–1957 · American jazz musician (1900-1957) Abe Lyman 1897–1957 · American bandleader, songwriter Carroll Dickerson 1895–1957 · American musician (1895–1957) Louis Mitchell 1885–1957 · American musician (1885–1957) Erik Tuxen 1902–1957 · Danish musician (1902–1957) Joe Shulman 1923–1957 · American musician (1923–1957) Serge Chaloff 1923–1957 · American musician (1923-1957) Jimmy Dorsey 1904–1957 · American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and… Dean Benedetti 1922–1957 · American musician (1922–1957)

Born in 1957

Steve Lukather 1957 · American musician (born 1957) Geri Allen 1957–2017 · American composer and jazz pianist (1957-2017) Simon Phillips 1957 · English drummer (born 1957) Ferenc Snétberger 1957 · Hungarian musician Rabih Abou-Khalil 1957 · Lebanese musician Harri Stojka 1957 · Austrian musician Chris Poland 1957 · American guitarist James McBride 1957 · American writer Steve Jordan 1957 · American producer, musical director and musician Vlatko Stefanovski 1957 · Macedonian musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan 1957 · Turkish musician of Armenian ancestry (born 1957) Pino Palladino 1957 · Welsh bassist Kevin Eubanks 1957 · American guitarist (born 1957) Jacques Pellen 1957–2020 · French jazz guitarist (1957–2020) Sibongile Khumalo 1957–2021 · South African opera singer (1957–2021) Gerald Albright 1957 · American jazz saxophonist Markus Stockhausen 1957 · German trumpeter, music producer and composer (jazz… Eric Marienthal 1957 · American musician Danilo Rea 1957 · Italian musician Andy Sheppard 1957 · British jazz saxophonist and composer Emily Remler 1957–1990 · American musician (1957–1990) Anders Jormin 1957 · Swedish double-bassist Guy Barker 1957 · British composer and musician Mino Cinelu 1957 · French musician Anca Parghel 1957–2008 · singer, music teacher Marc Ducret 1957 · French jazz guitarist Najee 1957 · American musician (born 1957) Billy Childs 1957 · American jazz pianist Myra Melford 1957 · American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer Fred Ho 1957–2014 · American jazz musician, author, and activist André Manoukian 1957 · French composer, arranger and jazz musician Pierre Bensusan 1957 · French musician Néstor Torres 1957 · Puerto Rican musician Ted Gioia 1957 · American jazz critic and music historian, writer Hanna Banaszak 1957 · Polish jazz singer and poet Massimo Urbani 1957–1993 · Italian musician (1957–1993) Gary Willis 1957 · American musician Éric Le Lann 1957 · French jazz musician Vanessa Rubin 1957 · American singer Majid Bekkas 1957 · Moroccan Gnawa musician, guembri and oud player, composer Peter O'Mara 1957 · Australian musician Issei Noro 1957 · Japanese jazz fusion guitarist (born 1957) Herlin Riley 1957 · American musician Titi Robin 1957 · French musician Bert Joris 1957 · jazz musician Jimmy Dludlu 1957 · Mozambican guitarist Dominique Pifarély 1957 · French musician Philippe Saisse 1957 · French musician Tom McClung 1957–2017 · American musician (1957–2017) Lynne Arriale 1957 · American musician Lynn Seaton 1957 · American musician Eddie Allen 1957 · American jazz musician Fernando Saunders 1957 · American musician