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1957 in jazz

Jazz in 1957: 120 albums, 11 standards, 52 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
A Day With Satchmo 1957
Basie Rides Again 1957
Jazz Abroad 1957
Mulligan Meets Monk 1957
Thelonious Himself 1957
Brilliant Corners 1957
This Is Fats 1957
Here Stands Fats Domino 1957
Dream Along With Me 1957
We Get Letters 1957
Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 1957
Way Out West 1957
The Sound of Sonny 1957
Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 1957
Saxophone Colossus 1957
Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from Pal Joey 1957
Double Play! 1957
Dream Street 1957
The Man I Love 1957
Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin 1957
Sarah Vaughan Sings 1957
Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin 1957
Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows 1957
Wonderful Sarah 1957
Boy Meets Girl 1957
Sammy Jumps With Joya 1957
Sammy Swings 1957
At the Waldorf Astoria 1957 · Live
For Musicians Only 1957
Stan Getz and The Oscar Peterson Trio 1957
Rosemary Clooney and the HI-LOs & Hollywood's Best 1957
Clooney Tunes 1957
Ring Around Rosie 1957
Quartet: Russ Freeman Chet Baker 1957
The Clown 1957
A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry With Charles Mingus 1957
Mingus Three 1957
East Coasting 1957
New Jazz Conceptions 1957
Legend of the Jivaro 1957
Jazz in ¾ Time 1957
Drummin’ the Blues 1957
Hamp's Big Four 1957
Dinah Washington Sings Fats Waller 1957
The Swingin’ Miss “D” 1957
Orgy in Rhythm, Volume Two 1957
Orgy in Rhythm, Volume One 1957
Finger-Style Guitar 1957
Hi-Fi in Focus 1957
Tenor Conclave 1957
Mating Call 1957
Mal/2 1957
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors 1957
Jazz by Sun Ra 1957
A Night at the Village Vanguard 1957 · Live
Tour de Force 1957
Hoagy Sings Carmichael 1957
Gil Evans & Ten 1957
Sophisticated Swing 1957
Julie 1957
Make Love to Me 1957
About the Blues 1957
Out On A Limb 1957
The Genius of Coleman Hawkins 1957
The Hawk Flies High 1957
Abbey Lincoln’s Affair... A Story of a Girl in Love 1957
That’s Him! 1957
Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at The Opera House 1957 · Live
The Call of the Wildest 1957
Play Phil Sunkel's Jazz Concerto Grosso 1957
Music for Brass 1957
The Shearing Piano 1957
Birdland Dream Band, Volume 2 1957
Boy With Lots of... BRASS 1957
West Coast Jazz Concert 1957 · Live
Modern Jazz Perspective 1957
This Is New 1957
Jazz Lab 1957
Bass Hit! 1957
Warm 1957
Wonderful! Wonderful! 1957

Standards written in 1957

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

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) Emily Remler 1957–1990 · American musician (1957–1990) Guy Barker 1957 · British composer and musician Mino Cinelu 1957 · French musician Anca Parghel 1957–2008 · singer, music teacher Gerald Albright 1957 · American jazz saxophonist Anders Jormin 1957 · Swedish double-bassist Fred Ho 1957–2014 · American jazz musician, author, and activist Ted Gioia 1957 · American jazz critic and music historian, writer Eric Marienthal 1957 · American musician Markus Stockhausen 1957 · German trumpeter, music producer and composer (jazz… André Manoukian 1957 · French composer, arranger and jazz musician Andy Sheppard 1957 · British jazz saxophonist and composer Hanna Banaszak 1957 · Polish jazz singer and poet Danilo Rea 1957 · Italian musician Myra Melford 1957 · American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer Gary Willis 1957 · American musician Najee 1957 · American musician (born 1957) Billy Childs 1957 · American jazz pianist Marc Ducret 1957 · French jazz guitarist Herlin Riley 1957 · American musician Issei Noro 1957 · Japanese jazz fusion guitarist (born 1957) Vanessa Rubin 1957 · American singer Bert Joris 1957 · jazz musician Pierre Bensusan 1957 · French musician Néstor Torres 1957 · Puerto Rican musician Massimo Urbani 1957–1993 · Italian musician (1957–1993) Éric Le Lann 1957 · French jazz musician Tom McClung 1957–2017 · American musician (1957–2017) Dominique Pifarély 1957 · French musician Majid Bekkas 1957 · Moroccan Gnawa musician, guembri and oud player, composer Hendrik Meurkens 1957 · Dutch harmonica player and jazz musician Peter O'Mara 1957 · Australian musician Jimmy Dludlu 1957 · Mozambican guitarist Eddie Allen 1957 · American jazz musician Fernando Saunders 1957 · American musician Titi Robin 1957 · French musician Philippe Saisse 1957 · French musician