The night after the finals, Mr. Brown played Manhattan's Jazz Standard, supporting pianist Gerald Clayton (a Monk finalist in 2006).

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Mingus Big Band : The party continued from the Jazz Standard, named Best Jazz Club by New York magazine in 2008.

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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.

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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.

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But AirNZ recently managed to jazz up a standard safety video with one that doubles as in-flight entertainment.

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"Christina" is one of the most elegantly simple melodies in jazz, as well as a certifiable standard from bassist Buster Williams, who mentored Blackout members Stefon Harris and Casey Benjamin.

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Within a six-block radius stood War Memorial Opera House, Herbst Theatre, Davies Symphony Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, all venues used by SFJazz during its 30-year rise from upstart weekend festival to standard-bearing year-round jazz nonprofit.

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Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.

ECONOMIST: Jazz singers

True, he has a very strong voice and can certainly tinkle on the old ivories compared to your average chart topping pop star... but not anywhere near to the standard that I would expect to hear at a top jazz gig.

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