The concerto grosso ( a concerto for more than one musician ) began to be replaced by the solo concerto ( a concerto featuring only one soloist ), and therefore began to place more importance on the particular soloist's ability to show off.

That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.

During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.

She is Ireland's best-selling solo musician and is officially the country's second-largest musical export after the band U2.

* Module ( musician ), the solo project of New Zealand-based musician / producer Jeramiah Ross

A solo is not an ensemble because it only contains one musician.

The first musician to be recorded using the style was Sylvester Weaver who recorded two solo pieces " Guitar Blues " and " Guitar Rag " in 1923.

The writing, production and musician roster for Curry's solo albums included an impressive list of collaborators, including Bob Ezrin and David Sanborn.

After completing the Unleashed Tour with Fleetwood Mac, Stevie began work on her first solo album in a decade with David A. Stewart ( musician and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics ), who announced this via his Twitter in February 2010.

However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation finally failed him: " He stood up to take his solo, but his mind went blank and nothing happened ," recalled a fellow musician, Frankie Cush.

When a musician hears Bix's solo on ' Singing the Blues ', he becomes aware after two bars that the soloist knows exactly what he is doing and that he has an exquisite sense of discord and resolution.

Award winning singer and musician Julie Fowlis recorded several tracks on the tin whistle, both in her solo work and with the band Dòchas.

In addition to being an active session musician, Hughes also maintains a notable solo career, and currently fronts the supergroup Black Country Communion.

* Pole ( musician ), an electronica solo project by Stefan Betke

The fluid playing of Chicago musician Phil Upchurch on his You Can't Sit Down LP, which includes a memorable bass solo, is cited by Jones as being his inspiration to take up the instrument.

* A. C. Newman, solo stage-name for Canadian musician Carl Newman

* John Waite – musician, now solo but formerly lead singer of the bands Bad English and The Babys.

* Jacob van Eyck, Dutch musician and composer of the 17th century, best known for his extensive collection of solo pieces for the soprano recorder Der Fluyten Lust-hof.

Metal Machine Music, subtitled * The Amine β Ring, is the fifth solo album by American rock musician Lou Reed.

Peter Tosh ( born Winston Hubert McIntosh, 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987 ), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers ( 1963 – 1974 ), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.

After a notable career with The Wailers and as a solo musician, he was murdered at his home during a robbery.

Erlandson continued to work as a producer and session musician, eventually forming the experimental group RRIICCEE with controversial artist, Vincent Gallo and Love began a solo career, releasing her debut, America's Sweetheart in 2004.

Amidst his solo career, Howe has continuously made himself available as a session musician for many of the world's biggest pop stars.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, in a string orchestra, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Well-known solo performers outside of Japan include koto master and award-winning recording artist Elizabeth Falconer, who also studied for a decade at the esteemed Sawai Koto School in Tokyo, as well as koto master Linda Kako Caplan, Canadian daishihan ( grandmaster ) and a member of Fukuoka's Chikushi Koto School for over two decades.

Moon's legacy, as a member of The Who, as a solo artist, and as an eccentric personality, continues to garner awards and praise, including a Rolling Stone readers ' pick placing him in second place of the magazine's " best drummers of all time " in 2011, nearly 35 years after his death.

Cypress Hill, of which Mellow Man Ace was a member before going solo, would become the first Latino rap group to reach platinum status in 1991.

Collins had contributed to Plant's first two solo albums while Martinez was a member of Plant's group Band of Joy.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

He is a member of the Nation of Islam and the Nation of Gods and Earths, which his lyrics and record titles as a solo artist referenced.

Following the breakup, each band member devoted time to his own solo projects.

Sakamoto released his first solo album in mid-1978, Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto, with the help of Hideki Matsutake, who would later be the " fourth member " of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and with the band's founding member Haruomi Hosono also contributing to the song " Thousand Knives ".

Hoffs began a solo career and Vicki Peterson toured as a member of the Go-Go's and the Continental Drifters.

In August 1990, founding member Hugh Cornwell left the band to pursue a solo career.

Cook achieved his first solo hit in 1989, featuring his future Beats International member MC Wildski, called " Blame It on the Bassline ".

Her primary fame came as a member of the British / American rock band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums.

Encouraged to continue her career, she recorded a solo album, Christine Perfect ; following her success as a member of Fleetwood Mac, the album was reissued under the name The Legendary Christine Perfect Album.

He is a member of the pop group Take That, but found greater commercial success as a solo artist.

Taylor became the first member of the band to release his own solo album in 1981, titled Fun in Space.

In turn, Lopes sent a reply through Entertainment Weekly issuing a " challenge " to Watkins and Thomas to release solo albums and let the public decide who was the " greatest " member of TLC:

After numerous talks with Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Lopes severed her solo deal with Arista ( despite remaining signed to the label as a member of TLC ) and signed with Knight's Tha Row Records, intending to record a second solo album under the pseudonym " N. I. N. A.

Da Vinci would not, however, become a member of the band put together by John Richardson but would pursue solo work.

Hosted by former Australian Idol 2003 contestant Rob Mills, 2012's YTT features a regular Young Talent Team ( of 10 members ), performing a couple of group numbers each week, with one team member featuring in a solo spot each episode, to showcase their individual talents.

Starting from episode 10 duets where sung instead of solos as each team member had performed a solo.