Take 25-year-old Alejandro Rosso, with his training in classical and jazz music and his love of timeless musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, throw in 22-year-old Jonas, who played in punk bands and was influenced by Nirvana, and you wind up with a mix of multilingual rap, swanky lounge-lizard tempos, frisky hip-hop and playful, inane lyrics.
Classical (ditto jazz) is a fascinating niche industry annually pronounced dead but more alive than ever.
Mr Mehldau is steeped in the classical repertoire of jazz, and he reveals new colours and complexities in works by that genius Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin and even Radiohead, a pop group.
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Lund, who also does vocals, has a background in hip hop, Jansen in house, and their influences range from the greats within their genre such as Daft Punk, to classical music and jazz.
Balakrishnan would grow up to form a jazz-classical fusion outfit called the Turtle Island Quartet.
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Jake Shimabukur : The Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso blends jazz, classical, bluegrass, flamenco and rock (from The Beatles to Michael Jackson and beyond).
Over the past couple of years, some of the greatest artists from Motown, from jazz, classical, Broadway have honored us with their performances.
The Turtle Island Quartet has earned rave reviews for their jazzy take on traditional chamber music and their classical take on traditional jazz.
On Wednesday evenings during peak travel season (July to mid-August), the church is home to a popular series of jazz, classical and folk music concerts.
Noticeable by their absence from the list are U2 and Craig David and there is also no room for any folk, jazz or classical albums.
One finding: The "Sound Charge" shirts collected more energy with dance music than jazz or classical, says Mat Sears, a spokesman for Orange parent company Everything Everywhere.
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Lord was influenced by classical, blues and jazz but played his Hammond organ with a rock attitude and helped Deep Purple become pioneers of progressive and heavy rock.
Jazz and classical worlds have long intersected.
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Elvis Costello, whose forays into jazz and classical ballet have provided a fascinating response to the question of how one deals with having written and performed one or more of the defining songs of your musical generation, has taken an interesting and unusual step.
Between her roots in classical piano and her jazz-guitar education at the Berklee College of Music, it would be easy for Larkin to fall back on technical prowess and ability to experiment with instruments such as the "baribow" (a baritone guitar played with a violin bow).
We heard the full range of "le monde creole" that night early jazz, a classical danza from Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Even in New York City, however, you are hard pressed to find country music or classical music or really good jazz programming other than on National Public Radio.
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The televised presentations target pop, country, urban, rock, and rap categories, leaving the jazz, gospel, classical, Latin and other categories to the pre-show.
It has propelled Lang Lang to the very top of his profession, touring at a frenetic pace and collaborating with his musical hero, Herbie Hancock, in a jazz-meets-classical concert series.
That album generated three Top 20 hits and helped Hornsby win the Best New Artist Grammy, and it laid the groundwork for a wildly diverse career encompassing jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, folk, rock and Vaudeville.
"This year, we've veered off the road, " he added of the jazz theme, alongside the classical and Welsh rock line-up.
Barry trained as a classical pianist but turned his attention to jazz.
If that vision hasn't exactly materialized, quite a few jazz musicians have worked lately in classical contexts.
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She studied classical music, then developed a passion for jazz, especially ballads.
They play great tunes by iconic jazz composers, as well as traditional classical pieces.
Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his young years.
Soon Mr. Virelles grew more expansive, issuing phrases voiced with a classical pianist's pristine touch, with a jazz player's edge, or just as pure percussive force.
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