When he asked about jazz in school, his teachers told him to forget it.
"Jazz in its real tradition is about synthesizing various elements of your culture, " Harris says.
And last year, Duncan's top-seeded Spurs handled the Utah Jazz in four games, but lost in the Western Conference Finals.
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Today McDonogh 15 is more accustomed to happy hallways bursting with the colors of Mardi Gras and the strains of adolescents playing New Orleans jazz in the school band.
"It will be a pre-eminent centre for jazz in the Middle East, " Alfardan said at the time and a place for those who are "passionate about this unique art form".
These shoes, in the black and red colorway, are the ones Jordan wore when he hit the game-winning shot over Byron Russell of the Utah Jazz in Game six of the 1998 NBA Finals.
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My mother died when I was two, so he raised me and my two sisters on his own, paid the bills as a night watchman at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie after years of playing jazz in New York City.
Almost to a person, the performers who stepped up cited a special love for the city's artistic tradition -- from the Creole brass bands that invented jazz in the city's streets to the colorful Mardi Gras krewes whose elaborate floats and costumes are an emblem of the city's annual pre-Lent bacchanal.
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According to professor Mike Molasky, author of the book Post War Jazz Culture in Japan, these cafes thrived between the 1950s and 1970s, when the Japanese discovered the genre through the scores of French New Wave films and a series of influential live performances by the band Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1961.
When I sit back and think over the life of my career, the first jazz festival I performed in was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.
Many other African-American jazz legends also rose to popularity in the beginning of the 1900s, wrote jazz critic and historian Ted Gioia in The History of Jazz.
For Zhao a crucial turning point came in 1997, when he met the late jazz vocal legend Betty Carter at an international jazz festival in Shanghai.
He studied in Paris with composer Nadia Boulanger, became the first person to teach jazz at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and started the jazz studies department at Howard University in Washington, D.
In 1996, he became the first official artist for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and - a year later - the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Ruffins, who channels Louis Armstrong with his brilliant trumpet playing and clowning vocals, has played Lincoln Center in New York City and will perform for thousands at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
She's also a major investor in London's exclusive Bulgari Hotel, and runs a contest for young jazz musicians in Spain.
At a gallery opening in Jacmel I met an artist who'd spent the '60s tending bar at jazz clubs in New York.
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The Mingus Big Band rang in 2009 with a rousing and raucous 80-minute set before a sold-out crowd at the Jazz Standard in New York.
It wasn't until Tyner signed with Milestone Records in 1972 that he began achieving individual recognition, eventually becoming known as one of the all-time jazz greats in his own right.
And when he was 53, his Cajun-tinged jazz club in Sarasota, Fla. went belly-up.
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But Joe Temperley, one of the most respected jazz saxophonists in the world, thinks differently.
We're at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival in the Allen Room of the Frederick P.
Claude Nobs, who founded the world-renowned Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, has died after a skiing accident.
Jazz originated in the southern United States but has its roots in Africa.
Al Jefferson scored 22 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead Utah, the only Jazz player in double figures.
If you are into jazz, go to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Belltown.
Eigsti performs before a full house at Seiji Ozawa Hall at the 2004 Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox, Mass.
But as if to confound all debate about what jazz means in 2012, funk was a dominating presence at the festival.
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With guest host Rhonda Hamilton, here's another packed show from the 2006 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, courtesy of Radio Netherlands.
Jazz guitarist Onder Focan started the first jazz club in Pera, in the shadow of the Galata Tower, just 10 years ago.
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