Much of the jazz world doesn't quite know what to make of Marco Benevento.
But Golson also enjoyed a memorable stint as a leader in the jazz world.
Mr. MIKE WALLACE: There seems to be a real companionship, Lady, among the greats in the jazz world.
Mr Garnett, an American jazz drummer who has played with many of the jazz world's top performers, is the current artist in residence.
Coleman has continued to shake up the jazz world ever since releasing his innovative recording The Shape of Jazz to Come in 1959.
Someone had claimed he was going to perform with Black Eyed Peas but after trekking to see their Jazz World set the crowd found out it wasn't true.
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Have them start, for example, with the late Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson, who accompanied almost anyone who was anyone in the jazz world, but who rarely sang, himself.
This summer, singers Cerys Matthews and Joan Armatrading were two of the headline acts at an event which has broadened over the years to include acts from outside the jazz world.
It was brilliant to be exposed to such a variety of stimulating events, ranging from main stages (obviously), Jazz World stage, Lost Vagueness as well as Leftfield (saw Tony Benn there on Sunday afternoon).
So 50 years ago, you arrived in New York, you've turned the jazz world on its head with songs like "Lonely Woman" and "Congeniality, " and people started paying attention to what you were doing, but it wasn't always positive.
Krall took the jazz world by the horns back in the mid-1990s, when her cool, understated approach to singing combined with her femme fatale looks and manner to make her the darling of audiences too young to remember names like Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald.
Mr. BLUMENFELD: This is what New Orleans is about, and it really is, to me, you know, there's a thriving jazz world in New York and elsewhere, but New Orleans, where the Hot 8 as part of, where the black men of the neighborhood part of, where the Mardi Granians(ph) are part of, this is a living culture.
His impact on the world of jazz can be felt throughout New Orleans and around the world today.
But Joe Temperley, one of the most respected jazz saxophonists in the world, thinks differently.
In 1971, Clarke entered the world of jazz as a teenager from the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
Locals let loose on Frenchman Street, a three-block music strip that is home to one of the best collections of jazz clubs in the world.
Granz was notorious in the world of jazz for his arrogance.
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And like classically trained musicians who discover the liberating world of jazz, they use their knowledge of the traditional to push boundaries and create striking timepieces.
As Blue Note's business began to grow, he and Wolff realized that they had to have a regular turnover of new material if the label was going to keep its place in the newly expanding world of jazz microgroove records.
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.
Add the magic of Hollywood and later the sound of the Beach Boys' pop and cool West Coast jazz: no wonder the world thought California to be especially blessed.
After the stridently messy Cookie and a few forays into spacey jazz, the recent The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams includes guest appearances by everyone from Pat Metheny to Oumou Sangare.
As well as the Buena Vista veterans headlining the One World (formerly Jazz) stage, gems from the outer fields include Cerys Matthews and Beth Gibbons on the acoustic stage, Fatboy Slim and The Streets in the dance tent and, for some reason, former Velvet Underground bassist John Cale, 61, headlining the new bands tent.
Claude Nobs, who founded the world-renowned Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, has died after a skiing accident.
Claxton, now 79, began making a name for himself in the 1950s, taking photos of some of the world's top jazz artists.
One of the biggest music events in the world, the North Sea Jazz Festival takes place every July at the Ahoy Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Fifty years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. government dispatched a high-level emissary to ease tensions during a nuclear crisis: a jazz trumpeter known to most of the world as Dizzy.
Brecker was a multiple Grammy winner who played in a variety of jazz settings and even crossed over to the world of pop music.
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