John the Divine featuring performances by Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Roberta Gambarini, Hilary Kole and other jazz stars.
And so, generally, with jazz and other forms of music, it's an artifact.
Many other African-American jazz legends also rose to popularity in the beginning of the 1900s, wrote jazz critic and historian Ted Gioia in The History of Jazz.
Even in New York City, however, you are hard pressed to find country music or classical music or really good jazz programming other than on National Public Radio.
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Jazz lovers selected other venues including the London Hippodrome, The Four Bars Inn (now Dempseys) in Cardiff, and The Old Duke in Bristol.
The noted Charles Mingus band alumnist Jackie Bayard(ph) gave him a leg-up on other studio wizards with some real jazz chops and a unique sonic sensibility.
Other highlights included live music from jazz band Dynamic Jazz.
"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.
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Other acts at the festival on Friday are jazz legends Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, while an eagerly anticipated concert by Brit award nominee Amy Winehouse is set for Saturday night.
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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.
On one side was a blues and on the other a dance number two forms that jazz would rely on for decades to come.
In the 1970s, musicians began mixing flamenco with jazz, rock, blues, rap and other genres.
The way jazz musicians walk, talk and greet each other, and the way they play is very distinct.
Jazz musicians are often courageous and braver than other musicians because they have faith in their ability to choose, create and dream.
The televised presentations target pop, country, urban, rock, and rap categories, leaving the jazz, gospel, classical, Latin and other categories to the pre-show.
There was already tremendous curiosity about the West, especially on the part of Soviet youth, voracious for movies (particularly Tarzan and westerns), music (rock and jazz, even though they were banned) and other aspects of American life.
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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In Mr. Anschell's description of the jazz ecosystem, there is little discussion of the audience, other than in noting how little of it there is.
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The new brand will gradually move to other sports properties in those markets, including the Pittsburgh Penguins and Utah Jazz (Fox Sports Rocky Mountain includes both the Salt Lake City and Denver markets).
The free-wheeling Mostly Other People Do the Killing, a quartet that jumps from postbop to funk to free jazz often within the span of a few bars worked the same stage as Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose album "Samdhi" (ACT) incorporates straight-ahead jazz, electronica and Indian percussion and modes.
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Y. jazz musician known for his improvisations on Bach, Tepfer has a tactical advantage over other concert performers: He can take gigs on two continents without applying for visas.
Other decisions adopted by the Board include the proclamation of a World Radio Day and an International Jazz Day to be celebrated on 13 February and 30 April respectively.
Tickets for those performances are free, while entrance to other shows, such as a medley of Chinese a cappella groups on 14 February and local jazz fusion band SIU2 on 15 February can be bought via Hong Kong ticketing outlet Urbtix.
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Jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson once tickled its keys at a time when many other Vancouver venues barred black performers.
Other finalists included previous winner Aaron Jay Kernis for classical composition "Pieces of Winter Sky" and jazz musician Wadada Leo Smith for "Ten Freedom Summers, " a 10-part examination of the civil rights movement.
Ligety will spend the offseason hanging out with friends, taking part in other sports such as mountain biking and keeping track of the progress of his favorite basketball team -- the Utah Jazz.
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