With 550 ticketed and 200 free shows a year, WCL hosts live music in just about every genre, including jazz, rock, folk and rap (Philly native Queena Marie stopped by in early January 2012).
The Shinjuku district is also home to some of the oldest surviving jazz kissa, including what many believe is the premier jazz club in the city, the Pit Inn, which hosts top Japanese and international acts every night and amateur performers every day.
Downtown, wander over to the Place des Festivals, a large public space dedicated to the city's continuous schedule of urban entertainment, including the annual jazz festival that takes place each summer at the end of June or beginning of July.
He since has played with jazz icons including McCoy Tyner and has toured with Sting.
The game was sloppy as they get early, with 24 turnovers in the first half, including 14 by the Jazz leading to 21 Knicks points.
Kent now can boast a string of five best-selling CDs and an armful of awards, including the 2001 British Jazz Award and 2002 BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist.
Since 2004, the Collective has been the ensemble-in-residence at SFJAZZ, an organization which presents more than 200 concerts a year, including the San Francisco Jazz Festival in the fall and SFJAZZ in the spring.
Another older Shinjuku gem is Jazz Pub Michaux, a bar whose white-bearded, kimono-and-Mongolian-cap-wearing 76-year-old owner has 4, 500 records of hard-bop and soul-jazz, including a large collection of rare vinyl by artists like Baby Face Willette and Groove Holmes.
Laurendine is already in the works of coordinating more hackathon events in conjunction with larger sporting and music events, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April and this years Final Four in Atlanta.
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After his military stint, he caught on with jazz groups, including Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and Count Basie's band.
Coleman has written music outside of the jazz realm, including string quartets, music for dance, woodwind quintets, and in the early 1970s, a symphony called Skies of America, composed with support from his Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
The festival lineup is packed with jazz, bluegrass and folk shows from artists including Larkin Poe, Kelsey Anna and the Sean Dietrich Jazz Trio, plus art classes for kids and demos in weaving, painting and woodwork.
Performing musicians have been very enthusiastic about possible applications of the technology, including, Miller tells me, jazz innovator Herbie Hancock.
The new brand will gradually move to other sports properties in those markets, including the Pittsburgh Penguins and Utah Jazz (Fox Sports Rocky Mountain includes both the Salt Lake City and Denver markets).
Taking another sabbatical from touring, Lightfoot became pub landlord of the Three Horseshoes in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, in 1978, where he promoted jazz and presented musicians including Humphrey Lyttelton, Chris Barber, and George Melly.
Jazz lovers selected other venues including the London Hippodrome, The Four Bars Inn (now Dempseys) in Cardiff, and The Old Duke in Bristol.
Mean Fiddler runs a range of music venues in the UK, including London's Astoria, Forum and Jazz Cafe.
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Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.
She has also presented a variety of programmes on radio and television including The Quincy Jones Story, The Best of Jazz, Open Forum and The Holiday Programme.
Presently a jazz trumpeter who has performed internationally with acts including Harry Connick, Jr.
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Some 49 groups - including the Federation of Scottish Theatre, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and the Edinburgh Mela - were told by letter that their regular funding would end next spring.
As a sideman, he helped spark jazz's plugged-in fusion (including Miles Davis's 1970 classic, "Bitches Brew"), has upheld its acoustic traditions (nearly 30 years in Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio), and remains a go-to player for veterans and rising stars alike.
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Just past 40, jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard can look back at numerous musical accomplishments, including nearly two dozen albums and a body of well-respected soundtrack work for director Spike Lee.
So in the mean time, enjoy the many concerts at Millennium Park, including the Grant Park Music Festival (15 June to 20 August) and the 33-year-old Chicago Jazz Festival (1 to 4 September).
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