Today the train station he inspired rarely sees trains, instead its jazz cafe is among the city's best night spots.
In the present day, it hosts its own annual jazz festival every July.
In the 1930s it was chic to argue that America had produced two new art forms of its own: jazz and Walt Disney.
Six Flags, while it had Bugs Bunny World, never bothered to exploit its ability to license newer Warner Bros. franchises Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings to jazz up its rides.
Yoshi's, in Oakland, continues with distinction but its sister club, in San Francisco, recently removed the word "jazz" from its moniker.
"Jazz in its real tradition is about synthesizing various elements of your culture, " Harris says.
And that style helped propel jazz through its most important developments - from swing to bebop to the avant-garde.
If New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, then New York's Garment District is where jazz spoke its first words.
The soundtrack to 1970 TV film A Charlie Brown Christmas has also made the list due to its influence on introducing jazz to a wider audience.
Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.
Mr. Williams, who has won five Oscars and is a 47-time nominee, has created a delightful musical backdrop for Steven Spielberg's "Tintin, " beginning with its sly, slinky, jazz-inflected overture.
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So 50 years ago, you arrived in New York, you've turned the jazz world on its head with songs like "Lonely Woman" and "Congeniality, " and people started paying attention to what you were doing, but it wasn't always positive.
And so has been the story of jazz, ever since its birth in the vivacious city of New Orleans.
The combined company took the name Jazz Technologies and changed its stock ticker from AQR to JAZ.
Mr Marsalis, quartet and guests perform a varied programme of original compositions, the kind of infectious tunes, rhythms and improvisations that have epitomised jazz for much of its history.
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The birthplace of jazz is dutifully fulfilling its role of being a music hotbed by providing Super Bowl attendees and New Orleans visitors with a wide array of musical options this week.
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McWhorter secured money for Eldar to attend a prestigious music camp in Michigan, and Eldar and his family subsequently moved to the U.S. in 1998, settling in Kansas City because of its reputation as a haven for jazz.
Perhaps most important, Mingus, who was born in 1922 and died in 1979, was not looking to divorce jazz's future from its past.
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The Monterey Jazz Festival just wrapped up its 47th year of swinging by the sea, weathering the ebb and flow of interest in this indigenous American music and somehow continuing to prosper.
As Blue Note's business began to grow, he and Wolff realized that they had to have a regular turnover of new material if the label was going to keep its place in the newly expanding world of jazz microgroove records.
The BBC Young Musician of the Year Award has launched its 2014 talent search, which includes a new Jazz Award.
It was even more popular and influential than its predecessor and it went on to become a jazz standard played by musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and, the queen of 1920s blues, Bessie Smith.
The beacon of jazz has always flickered to the pulse of its time, and even today, it does not extinguish.
While Chicago landmarked the building, there is no hint of its past life - no plaque marking the spot or jazz tchotchkes for sale.
Jazz originated in the southern United States but has its roots in Africa.
Jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson once tickled its keys at a time when many other Vancouver venues barred black performers.
Two blocks over, downtown's hotel scene emerged from the Jazz Age in 2006 when 21c Museum Hotel debuted its forward-thinking concept, nesting 90 lodgings atop the U.S.'s first museum devoted to 21st-century art.
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