Cuban-born Gonzalo Rubalcaba turns heads with his jazz piano playing.
White musicians who started playing jazz included Papa Jack Laine, Sharkey Bonano and Nick LaRocca.
DeRose began building a career as a jazz pianist, playing small clubs in and around her hometown.
Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his young years.
Haden has been playing jazz for years, so a bluegrass project might seem a little out of place.
Although he was deadly serious about making music on the bandstand, playing jazz for him was a positive, joyous experience.
Dr Biles says that playing jazz with GenJam is a lot of fun, but can also be a bit unnerving.
The only money was in touring Africa, playing jazz clubs from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo).
Just as playing jazz requires a keen ear and generosity, content creators of all stripes must be intent listeners and flexible collaborators.
In Monk's last years, he suffered from mental health problems and withdrew from playing jazz altogether by secluding himself in Nica's New Jersey home.
Esperanza Spalding, the bass-playing jazz singer whose best new artist win upset Justin Bieber fans two years ago, was present to win two more Grammys in the pre-telecast.
He cut his teeth in two legendary jazz groups, playing with Lionel Hampton for two years and then, following in the footsteps of another New Orleans trumpeter, replacing Wynton Marsalis Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Music will play across the city in a number of different locations, playing jazz, motown, soul and some of Norfolk's freshest young talent as BBC Norfolk Introducing hosts an afternoon of music from local bands at Chapelfield Gardens.
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.
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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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.
But I love playing it with my own interpretation, based on my education, just as some great jazz players have taken on the challenge of playing Bach or Shostakovich.
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Historic music venues were hosting musicians playing every style of jazz, from Dixieland to Free Jazz.
It's like walking into a scene from Goodfellas - the crowd seated at candlelit tables, suited-up waiting staff distributing Old Fashioneds, the band on stage playing whipsmart swing and jazz.
And while six months of incarceration have affected the jazz lover's level of saxophone playing, he doesn't hold a grudge.
But public mixing of the races was illegal, and jazz players in integrated bands risked arrest playing in underground clubs run by gangsters.
Clayton, the son of jazz bassist John Clayton, has been playing piano for 18 years, developing a definable improvising skill set with major West Coast musicians, including studio professionals such as his father and his uncle, saxophonist Jeff Clayton.
The music died when the first results came into Romney HQ in Boston - not metaphorically, but literally, as the jazz band that had been serenading Republicans stopped playing.
In the 1950s she sang with township jazz bands but didn't make much money from playing clubs and bars.
Kopple and her camera crew trailed Allen and his Dixieland jazz band as they toured through Europe in 1996, playing to mostly adoring audiences that (it has to be said) seem pretty primed to be adoring regardless of what the music sounds like.
"Black musicians in New Orleans had been playing the music that would come to be called jazz as early as 1906, " said Bruce Raeburn, curator of Tulane University's Hogan Jazz Archive.
Since 2001 Railroad Earth has been playing bluegrass plus snatches of rock, folk, and jazz with the same open armed, occasionally long-winded approach that's helped jam bands like Phish and the String Cheese Incident earn throngs of rabid fans.
Jazz saxophonist Benny Golson has spent much of his career writing for and playing with the greats.
The U.S. jazz audience discovered virtuosic pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba after bassist Charlie Haden heard him playing in Havana, Cuba.
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