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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After a steady showing in Beijing with a semi-final spot, this part-time jazz singer now looks ready to shine on the world stages.
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.
Two years later, in 1972, Holland released the first recording under his own name, Conference of the Birds, with some of the biggest names in jazz at the time, woodwind players Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton and drummer Barry Altschul.
It became one of the most uncomfortable jazz-on-TV moments of all time and we jazz fans have suffered through many.
"Kind of Blue" went on to become the best-selling jazz album of all time.
Paul Brown's skill as a producer has helped drive the popularity of smooth jazz for quite some time now.
Trains, cars and planes have all inspired popular songs, but how did a New York City subway line lead to one of the greatest jazz anthems of all time?
"Kind of Blue" has come to be considered the essential jazz record, and "Time Out" the essential Brubeck record.
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Her dancing inspired her father to write "Kathy's Waltz, " which ended up on his double-platinum 1959 album, "Time Out, " which experimented with using odd time signatures in jazz.
Gene Rizzo's book "The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time" ranks the masters and looks closely at each artist's indelible mark on the world of music.
Watching these first-time listeners enjoy jazz tapping their feet, bobbing their heads, and smiling is all the proof I need that jazz is all a feeling, a natural human feeling, and feelings can't die.
Long-time bands like the Jazz Vipers play at a cool little bar called the Spotted Cat.
She moved to the U.S. for a time, and American jazz, soul and hip-hop became part of her musical mix, along with reggae, Latin and other world sounds.
More than 400 young classically trained musicians entered the 2012 contest, and more are expected to enter this time round due to the new Jazz Award.
Ranking with John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins as one of the all-time great tenor sax players, jazz legend Sonny Rollins has been recording fiery, passionate and intelligent music for nearly 60 years.
The beacon of jazz has always flickered to the pulse of its time, and even today, it does not extinguish.
There are forms of jazz where all three are being played with at the same time, freeform for example.
"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".
It tends to be true of jazz that you play with one of the three at any one time.
It was a glamorous time for some Harvard students in Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age, but for Mr Pusey it was all hard grind keeping to the tough terms of his grant.
Drink of choice: Martini again, this time made with herb-infused vodka and accompanied by live jazz.
Jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson once tickled its keys at a time when many other Vancouver venues barred black performers.
Jazz heavies like Wayne Shorter and Phil Woods have long popped up from time to time on Steely Dan's albums, playing solos that don't sound even slightly out of place.
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Shortly after 9 he quietly slipped out, opting to skip a performance by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson in the interest of keeping his body clock on Moscow time.
He liked trad jazz -- aka Dixieland, the dominant style of dance music in Britain at the time -- until he discovered the saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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By the time he died at age 83, he was truly one of the giants of jazz.
After five years at the pub, he left to return to music full-time and developed the Rockin' in Rhythm show, which charted the history of jazz and played at theatres throughout Europe.
Perhaps some Americans feel like traditional jazz purists felt after they first heard Brubeck's exotic rhythms on his groundbreaking 1959 "Time Out" album: My world is changing, and I don't know these tunes.
Brubeck took California's "West Coast Cool" school and with mathematical intellection removed it even further from the sweaty dance rhythms of jazz gone by: The album's compositions were in tricky, decidedly dance-averse time signatures.
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