The prince also heard and watched a performance by school pupils from Hillhead High School jazz band.
Louis High School jazz program and the University of Houston.
And Mingus's music has taken somewhat longer to reach and excite young members of high-school jazz bands.
Plus, the legendary high-pitched jazz singer "Little" Jimmy Scott joins in the fun.
And after hearing about Katrina, she decided to have a Jazz and Blues Festival at her high school.
Byrd, who was also a pioneer in jazz education, attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, played in military bands in the Air Force and moved to New York in 1955.
His face is arresting, a long, narrow brow over almond eyes lit by youth and restless ambition, high cheekbones and a cool jazz man's trimmed mustache.
End the festival on a high note at the traditional Lowcountry Jazz Brunch at the historic Lowndes Grove Plantation.
Afterward, the finalists embraced like the old friends that they are, having met via organized jazz programs: Mr. Stranahan and Mr. Brown met through the Brubeck Institute, and Mr. Ross at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington high-school band competition.
Glasper confessed to Marian McPartland a childhood dream of playing basketball in the NBA. Despite his more than adequate height for such a career, Glasper's immersion in jazz and an acceptance into Houston's High School for Performing Arts set him on the path toward a career at the piano.
Mr. Roney holds to high standards musicians who profit from an affiliation with jazz.
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But the actual television coverage as they go to commercials showing a paddle wheeler on the river, chefs cooking in the kitchen, street performers in Jackson Square or jazz trumpet players playing in the clubs, those kind of high def commercial spots on a broadcast that has over a billion households around the world are something that we could not begin to buy.
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On Sunday we begin with We The Undersigned, aka WtU. They are a Liverpool based collective that play a high energy mix of Reggae, Rock, Funk, Jazz and Hip Hop, topped with a four piece brass section.
The New York Knicks veteran forward not only played, he earned a game ball for a gutsy, 27-minute effort that included six points, three rebounds and a season-high three blocks in a 90-83 victory over the Utah Jazz.
For example, since 1996, Jazz at Lincoln Center has staged "Essentially Ellington, " an annual competition among high-school bands across the country centered around Ellington's music.
Mr Jamieson said the UK music industry was going through a "strong patch" thanks to high sales of albums by rock bands The Darkness and Lostprophets, and jazz stars Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua.
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Fifty years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. government dispatched a high-level emissary to ease tensions during a nuclear crisis: a jazz trumpeter known to most of the world as Dizzy.
The previous class included pianist Phillip Golub, then in high school, and bassist Rufus Reid, then 66 and with a long and stellar jazz discography to his credit.
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And you can't understand jazz, without understanding Dave Brubeck. (Applause.) His mother was a classical pianist with high hopes for her son.
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