This meant Holiday no longer could sing in nightclubs and jazz clubs.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

He says the album will blend classical symphonic and big band jazz techniques, with a hint of Brazilian Samba.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

At any given time, you can find a stage with bluegrass, folk,gospel,blues,country, Celtic and jazz being played.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

For example, in South Africa, Cape Town's jazz festival included performances by more than forty international and African jazz performers.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Just three years later, she was performing with famous jazz and blues musicians including Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson and Joe Williams.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

John Lewis combined classical music with traditional jazz to create songs for himself and the three other members of his quartet.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

She has performed with some of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock since she was very young.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He discovered jazz by listening to the recordings of such jazz greats as Count Basie and Lester Young.

VOA: special.2010.11.07

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He also wanted the music to express the kind of jazz music that Pollock listened to and enjoyed.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Every year thousands of bands and fans travel to the southern state of Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Over the years, they have been sung and played in every possible way -- from jazz to country.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

He is the youngest jazz instrumentalist ever to perform at Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

And so the jazz ambassadors were really quite famous and were really hailed as America's diplomats musically.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

the thirty-four year old performer continues to combine the sounds of jazz, folk music and the blues.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Peyroux first began performing popular jazz and blues songs as a teenager in the streets of Paris,France.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Motown is known for its special sound that was influenced by jazz, gospel and rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Over the years, the Newport Jazz Festival presented greats like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

In nineteen twenty-four, jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Critics say Esperanza Spalding is one of the most interesting and gifted examples of today's jazz music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09