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.
For this record, his accompanists are often just a jazz piano trio.
Just as jazz was born in the seaport of New Orleans from a blend of African and European sounds, so New York humour was shaped by talented immigrants.
Just as playing jazz requires a keen ear and generosity, content creators of all stripes must be intent listeners and flexible collaborators.
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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Just past 40, jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard can look back at numerous musical accomplishments, including nearly two dozen albums and a body of well-respected soundtrack work for director Spike Lee.
The Monterey Jazz Festival just wrapped up its 47th year of swinging by the sea, weathering the ebb and flow of interest in this indigenous American music and somehow continuing to prosper.
The International Jazz Festival, Just For Laughs, and FrancoFolies de Montreal -- three of the largest -- draw more than five million visitors every year, according to the Partnership.
With 550 ticketed and 200 free shows a year, WCL hosts live music in just about every genre, including jazz, rock, folk and rap (Philly native Queena Marie stopped by in early January 2012).
That reduced the Grizzlies' lead to 75-65 with just under 5 minutes left, but the Jazz never got closer.
Mambo jazz, cubop, and descargas were just a few of the names that didn't stick.
Those are just a few of the living legends who keep jazz going strong in the place it all began, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Just across the street is Maison, where the jazz line up is supplemented by plenty of local dance DJs and indie rock talent.
Pianist Eldar Djangirov plays with the verve and style that one would expect from a seasoned jazz artist, but he's just 18 years old.
Soon Mr. Virelles grew more expansive, issuing phrases voiced with a classical pianist's pristine touch, with a jazz player's edge, or just as pure percussive force.
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It was a reminder that, with just several bars and well-placed beats, the right jazz drummer can lend order and meaning to any moment.
But jazz musicians need to think about their audiences not just for the sake of their livelihoods, but even more so for the sake of their art.
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They worked to create an extraordinarily original piece over the course of just a few days, striking a delicate middle ground between rock and jazz.
On April 30th the focus switches to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, where a special concert will take place in Congo Square just after sunrise.
Other nominees on the list include Ronnie Scott's club in Soho and Club Eleven, which was closed following a police raid in 1950 after running for just two years, but which is seen as the crucible of modern British jazz.
Jazz guitarist Onder Focan started the first jazz club in Pera, in the shadow of the Galata Tower, just 10 years ago.
Just barely behind in import is one of the world's great music events: Jazz Fest.
Just along Oxford Street, the 100 Club, originally Mack's, has hosted jazz sessions since 1942.
During a break, the substitute pianist, a young African-American jazz musician named Herbie Hancock, was doodling with a tune he'd just written.
Lewis, who went on to mastermind the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet for much of the next forty years or so, was only just starting his experiments with baroque and other classical forms, and this piece is probably well enough titled.
Taylor and his 2007 account of the Bright Young People, which had just been released in paperback in the U.S. with an Americanized subtitle that suggests Jazz-age parallels of youthful glamour, anomie and eventual doom.
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