Bleszinski worked at Epic Games for 20 years, going all the way back to Jazz Jackrabbit and all the way up to Gears of War: Judgement.
And meanwhile, the spirit of all the legendary jazz greats still lives on.
Watching these first-time listeners enjoy jazz tapping their feet, bobbing their heads, and smiling is all the proof I need that jazz is all a feeling, a natural human feeling, and feelings can't die.
The musical of razzmatazz and "All That Jazz" became the first movie musical to win best picture since 1968's "Oliver!"
Catherine Zeta Jones as merry murderess Velma Kelly has never been better as she burns up the screen in what will surely become signature screen moments for her in numbers like All That Jazz and the brilliantly staged Cell Block Tango.
So were the 14 albums taped at a series of marathon sessions in 1954 and 1955 in which Art Tatum, the greatest of all jazz pianists, recorded 120 stupendously virtuosic solo performances nearly the whole of his working repertoire.
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It wasn't until Tyner signed with Milestone Records in 1972 that he began achieving individual recognition, eventually becoming known as one of the all-time jazz greats in his own right.
All Jazz at the Philharmonic contracts contained ironclad antisegregation clauses, and Granz would cancel a show whenever those clauses were violated, no matter what it cost him at the box office.
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Gene Rizzo's book "The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time" ranks the masters and looks closely at each artist's indelible mark on the world of music.
The collection is all that jazz meets Annie Get Your Gun meets vintage Marc Jacobs.
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It sounds as if Ms. Krall and producer T-Bone Burnett journeyed back to the beginning of time and landed at that Big Bang moment when all the American idioms jazz, country, blues, Tin Pan Alley and Broadway were being invented simultaneously, and not completely independent of one another.
It's challenging, innovative stuff, and it likely would sound very different had Mr. Stanko been born in Brooklyn likewise if Miles Davis had been born in Warsaw (in which case he would have been named Kilometers Davis.) Would that the United Nations get all the countries of the world together harmonizing the way that jazz seems to be able to.
Trains, cars and planes have all inspired popular songs, but how did a New York City subway line lead to one of the greatest jazz anthems of all time?
Those are just a few of the living legends who keep jazz going strong in the place it all began, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Jazz is all about the soul and our religion is focussed on intention.
In 2011, she sang "Defying Gravity" in all three languages at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club with Schwartz on piano.
The rise of homeopathy, crystal healing, and all that jazz are worrisome, and their increasing popularity says a lot about the poor state of science education and the loss of faith in the health care industry.
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Since the 1930s, jazz aficionados have been coming to the foundation for all-night weekend jams that run until 5 am and feature musicians both local and international, professional and amateur, young and old.
Well-known groups like Ketageta(ph) were mixing jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms, so the government decided to host an annual jazz festival, which drew crowds from all over the world.
Between the Puzzles Quartet and the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, he's found a way to make all the pieces fit.
After all, many of the key elements that fostered jazz in the beginning were vocal the blues, spirituals and work songs among them.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.
"Kind of Blue" went on to become the best-selling jazz album of all time.
Although at home her genres of choice are rock, hip-hop, and opera, the music she was making onstage was all jazz.
Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, singer Jennifer Lopez and the former jazz musician Tito Puente are all of Puerto Rican descent, though all three were born in New York.
Ranking with John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins as one of the all-time great tenor sax players, jazz legend Sonny Rollins has been recording fiery, passionate and intelligent music for nearly 60 years.
In the last two years, James (Cavaliers to Heat), Carmelo Anthony (Nuggets to Knicks), Chris Paul (Hornets to Clippers) and Deron Williams (Jazz to Nets) have all exited the teams that drafted them, leaving them in a state similar to when they arrived.
Having brought jazz into the mainstream, he then transformed it, with innovative new rhythms on albums like Time Out -- the first jazz album to ever sell more than a million copies and still one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.
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The way Duke accompanies Satchmo is masterful, and the personality of the two of them signifies what jazz is all about.
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