Al Jefferson scored 22 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead Utah, the only Jazz player in double figures.

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The Grammy-winning Latin jazz ensemble Caribbean Jazz Project is led by vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Samuels, one of the leading percussionists of the day.

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Along with drummer Shelley Manne and bass player Leroy Vinegar, he recorded the first jazz version of a Broadway score for My Fair Lady.

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Bass player Christian McBride, creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic, says nobody writes or plays like McCoy Tyner.

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In March 2008, he became the first NBA player to get 212 assists in a month since Jazz legend John Stockton did it in January 1992.

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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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Now, he's a king of the acoustic and electric jazz worlds, having won every major award available to a bass player: Grammys, Emmys, gold and platinum records and more.

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As clarinet player and scholar Michael White points out, New Orleans jazz arose out of turbulent times in the early decades of the twentieth century, and these post-Katrina years are turbulent times, too.

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