Martinez and his band have won over dozens of people the writer has taken to see him, despite common confessions to not liking jazz or not understanding Latin music.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is staked to trumpeter Wynton Marsalis's impressive appeal and his clearly expressed aesthetic of what does and does not constitute jazz.
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.
Indeed, New Orleans would not be the birthplace of jazz if it had not blended the other musical traditions that already had deep roots here.
Similarly, readers not enamoured of jazz may wonder why they need to know so much about Dave Brubeck.
Perhaps most important, Mingus, who was born in 1922 and died in 1979, was not looking to divorce jazz's future from its past.
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In the Bay Area as elsewhere, jazz clubs are not as viable as they once were.
They infuse an African-American sensibility into music that includes, not only opera, but jazz, gospel, soul and blues.
It not only appealed to traditional jazz fans, but also reached out to a younger generation raised on rock.
Jazz Air is not the first airline to take this decision, she adds.
"The word 'jazz' is not going to hold me back from doing what I want to do with a set of instruments, " he said.
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Jazz, though not played quite as inventively as it was when Louis Armstrong was making the South Side swing in the 1920s, is still alive and well.
But there is no question that his story, like those of so many whom Barker and Giddins also describe, illustrates that the jazz life is not for tourists.
For players, the distinctive sound of jazz has derived not from acquiring a conventional classical technique on an instrument, but from emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.
Electronica rules at more Design District and Downtown clubs, lovely jazz spots are not hard to find, and a cosy but strong indie-rock scene centres around Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave) and Churchill's (5501 NE Second Avenue).
And it might have become a footnote to jazz history had it not been noticed by Miles Davis.
Polanski went to see his wife perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival but did not speak to the media.
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In the simplest terms, Jazz at Lincoln Center could not be without Duke Ellington.
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While their accessible sound was not to the taste of some trad jazz purists, they were now pop stars as well as jazzmen, and more top 10 hits followed with March of the Siamese Children and The Green Leaves of Summer.
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.
Halvorson, who is not yet 30, says she already sees more female jazz instrumentalists today than when she was first learning jazz.
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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She's met a handsome executive (Francois Cluzet, who some people may know from the great jazz movie "'Round Midnight"), and, not surprisingly, he's fallen in love with her.
Located at 254 West 54th St. (below Studio 54, but not associated with Roundabout Theatre Company), the venue will also host a jazz brunch on Sunday afternoons, plus music performances starting at 10:30 p.m.
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.
"Mingus Ah Um" deserves recognition not only as the essential Mingus disc, but as a compelling, enduring vision for jazz radically different from the other two.
WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten
Either as a performer or as a punter, there is a uniqueness about the High street and The Pleasance which just seem rightly placed in this historic city for entertainment, not to mention all the other wee venues, where a stand up comic or a jazz sax player can play to one or twenty.
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