Barnes, who made her Jazz Fest debut this year, attributes much of her growth to music education.
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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).
For 21 years, Marjorie Eliot has opened her home for weekly jazz matinees, taking turns on the piano with her son Rudel Drears and gigging with a variety of musicians and singers.
Her folk- and jazz-tinged vocal affections garner comparisons to fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell.
His mother Maureen Yancey, a former opera singer, says her husband was a jazz bassist and their home was filled with music.
Adapting her talents to the demand of her customers, Judi reshaped her class and incorporated jazz technique into easy-to-follow routines that focused more on getting students active and losing weight than on learning complex dance moves.
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When Tori Amos sat down at her piano for the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival, she didn't have a record to promote, or even any buzz to her name.
From there she was trained classically before she broadened her musical horizons, investigating jazz.
She's a jazz violinist with her own swing band and is known as a champion of contemporary American music.
So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz vocalist and pianist was well-suited to make a record of Cole Porter songs.
An early encounter with Dizzy Gillespie's Afro-Cuban music persuaded Acuna that she could find original common ground between the Latin music of her youth and the modern jazz idiom.
Beginning in the late '50s, a good deal of that allure came from the compositions of Bley's then-wife, a composer and pianist born Carla Borg who, using the Bley surname, would become an enduring jazz progressive in her own right.
Her style, which blends blues, soul, funk and jazz, has earned Copeland a Grammy nomination, while allowing her to open for the likes of The Rolling Stones, B.
We're likely to hear much of her modern, pan-Latin jazz live from Newport's Marsalis Music stage on Saturday.
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.
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.
And after hearing about Katrina, she decided to have a Jazz and Blues Festival at her high school.
In 1994, she recorded a tribute album to Billie Holiday, Mystery Lady, in partial honor of her mother, who loved Holiday and jazz.
Another jazz lady famous for going her own way is Carla Bley, a composer-bandleader who combines a taste for rich sonorities with post-modern whimsy.
"I've always kept them ready to go at a moment's notice, " she said, adding that she had just put her jewelry in a pillowcase and packed up pajamas, slippers, a small Bose stereo, a collection of gospel and jazz CDs and 20 of her favorite outfits.
But Adlington produced a second peerless swim in as many days to win the 400m freestyle , with Jazz Carlin swimming to bronze behind her for Wales.
Kopple and her camera crew trailed Allen and his Dixieland jazz band as they toured through Europe in 1996, playing to mostly adoring audiences that (it has to be said) seem pretty primed to be adoring regardless of what the music sounds like.
In 1988, one of the most famous jazz recording labels, Verve, offered her a contract, releasing the Grammy-winning "Look What I've Got" and reissuing her four earlier Bet-Car albums on CD.
Chicago jazz singer Maggie Brown collaborated with Lincoln on her 1999 album, Wholly Earth.
Fontella Bass was married to the great jazz trumpeter, Lester Bowie, who was her musical director.
She spoke about jazz's influence during Soviet rule in her birthplace, Czechoslovakia, and its relevance for cultural diplomacy today.
His mother performed with a jazz band, and she preferred to bring her young son with her, rather than leave him with a sitter.
She started sampling jazz and hip-hop at 18 in her native Japan and moved to the U.S. five years ago for more technical training in modern dance and ballet.
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