Mainstream

The mainstream (“running principal” in English) is current jazz appeared in the middle of the Années 1950 and which continues still today.

Characteristics

Whereas the Bebop had become ripe, this one did not have the favors of the general public, the young people of the time preferring to turn to the incipient Rock-and-roll. The veterans of the Middle jazz decide to return to the “current principal” initiate at their time. The full orchestras, which were replaced by more modest groups, disappeared but one finds the great characteristics of this time like the swing, long the soli melody and the “standards”.

Evolution

Initiated in the Years 1950 by the veterans of the Middle jazz like Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie or Duke Ellington, the movement knew breathlessness in the Années 1960, which had at the same time with the emergence of other currents of the jazz and with the disappearance of part of the “veterans”. But the movement is started again since the Années 1970 with the arrival of new actors, like the Saxophoniste Scott Hamilton, the Cornettiste Ruby Braff or the Trompettiste Warren Vaché.

Some representatives of the mainstream

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