Historic music venues were hosting musicians playing every style of jazz, from Dixieland to Free Jazz.
As he once told pianist Oscar Peterson, once a jazz musician, always a jazz musician.
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Mingus Big Band : The party continued from the Jazz Standard, named Best Jazz Club by New York magazine in 2008.
The Grammy-winning Latin jazz ensemble Caribbean Jazz Project is led by vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Samuels, one of the leading percussionists of the day.
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.
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.
Yesterday, we bade farewell to opera great Luciano Pavarotti and last month we lost Max Roach, the man who revolutionized not just jazz drumming but jazz itself.
By the early 1950s Papa Wendo had been eclipsed by newcomers with faster, fuller sounds: Jhimmy the Hawaiian and then two giants, African Jazz and OK Jazz.
Other highlights included live music from jazz band Dynamic Jazz.
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So I was like the first to give the knowledge that jazz came from Africa, that the music evolved into jazz, which then Nina Simone epitomized in that jazz festival.
Albums like Jazz at Oberlin and Jazz at the College of the Pacific, recorded live before enthusiastic audiences, made the group one of the most popular in the country, and within a few years Brubeck would appear on the cover of Time magazine.
Having brought jazz into the mainstream, he then transformed it, with innovative new rhythms on albums like Time Out -- the first jazz album to ever sell more than a million copies and still one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.
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Today, brass bands still invigorate the streets during Mardi Gras, French Quarter jazz clubs deliver the best in live improvisation on any given night, and the Jazz and Heritage Festival brings together the past, present and future of American jazz every spring, proving year after year that New Orleans is still the jazz mecca of the world.
If you are into jazz, go to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Belltown.
Jazz guitarist Onder Focan started the first jazz club in Pera, in the shadow of the Galata Tower, just 10 years ago.
That journey, plus Claxton's earlier portraits of jazz legends, are both collected in Jazz Life, a massive 669-page book of photographs and essays.
Jazz critics panned Byrd for deviating from the jazz mainstream, but he was unperturbed.
In 2000, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized Byrd as a Jazz Master, the nation's highest jazz honor.
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.
Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said New York took the Jazz out of their game despite Utah's size advantage.
Since 1996, the members of the New Jazz Composers Octet have extended their own brand of jazz articulation for eight.
Halvorson, who is not yet 30, says she already sees more female jazz instrumentalists today than when she was first learning jazz.
Mr Garnett, an American jazz drummer who has played with many of the jazz world's top performers, is the current artist in residence.
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.
He loved the jazz he heard on the radio, and sometimes bought jazz records from black American GIs.
Discovered by Quincy Jones back in 1963 at the Nortre Dame Jazz Festival, James has recorded more than two dozen jazz albums as a solo artist.
Mitchell's mentors include Rachmaninov - "Beyond the music, he was a composer, a conductor, a pianist all at the highest level, and they're often roles that jazz musicians play simultaneously" - and the great jazz pianists.
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.
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