He loved the jazz he heard on the radio, and sometimes bought jazz records from black American GIs.

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At age 8, he completely lost his eyesight to cancer but nonetheless went on to become a black belt in karate, a jazz pianist, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, an editor of the law review at Yale and an attorney at a prestigious Seattle-based firm.

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Roy says even after 50 years in jazz, Coleman is the greatest living black musician who most black folks still don't know about.

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Someone had claimed he was going to perform with Black Eyed Peas but after trekking to see their Jazz World set the crowd found out it wasn't true.

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Wells mentions jazz, first introduced to France by black Americans.

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The obsession of the novel's characters with degrees of skin colour, or the lack thereof, threatens to force the heroine, a near-white black, to call off her planned marriage to a white jazz musician and instead to encourage the crude advances of a nut-brown man with three daughters.

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This includes working with or contributing to The National Black Arts Festival, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation and the Jazz Foundation of America.

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His music is deeply rooted in folk, African jazz and the a capella "mbube" music that Ladysmith Black Mambazo made famous.

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"Black musicians in New Orleans had been playing the music that would come to be called jazz as early as 1906, " said Bruce Raeburn, curator of Tulane University's Hogan Jazz Archive.

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