音乐评论家一直将詹姆斯·P·约翰逊定义为伟大的早期爵士钢琴家，20世纪20年代哈林区“跨步”风格的鼻祖，也是重要的蓝调和爵士乐作曲家。
Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920's Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer.
联合国教科文组织最近将4月30日定为世界爵士乐日，旨在提高人们对爵士乐的认识、爵士乐的重要性以及爵士乐作为跨文化中统一的声音的潜力。
UNESCO recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying voice across cultures.
尽管举办了这一庆祝活动，爵士乐在美国的听众人数仍在下降，听众的年龄也在上升，爵士乐不太受年轻人欢迎。
Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
那时爵士乐正处于鼎盛时期，她从音乐学院毕业时，受邀加入了一个爵士乐团。
Jazz was in its heyday back then, and when she got out of the conservatory, she was invited to join a jazz orchestra.
作为肯尼迪中心的爵士乐艺术顾问，莫兰希望扩大爵士乐的听众范围，使爵士乐更容易被人接受，并保护爵士乐的历史和文化。
As the Kennedy Centre's artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.
亨利·杰罗姆属于先锋派；他的乐队后来，把波普爵士乐风带入传统的大乐队爵士乐中。
Henry Jerome was part of the avant-garde; his band later brought the bop sound to conventional big-band fare.
威利斯.科诺菲尔并不是一位爵士音乐人，然而，许多人认为，他对爵士乐的推广所起的作用比音乐史上的任何一位音乐人都要大。
Willis Conover was not a jazz musician. However, many people believe that he did more to spread the sound of jazz than any person in music history.
新奥尔良爵士俱乐部建立了一个爵士乐艺术馆并捐献唱片给路易斯安娜州立艺术馆。
The New Orleans Jazz Club established a Jazz Museum and later donated the collection to the Louisiana State Museum system.
在芝加哥，人们通常把搞爵士乐的人叫做”爵士“，威廉王子是个直升机飞行员。
People addressed as "Duke" in Chicago are usually jazzmen, but Prince William is a helicopter pilot.
科诺·菲尔：“爵士乐是鲜活的音乐，任何鲜活的事物都会成长和变化，就像我们都会成长和变化一样，所以，爵士乐一直都在变化着。”
CONOVER: "Jazz is a living music and anything that is alive grows and changes, just as we grow and change." So it changes all the time.
威利斯·科诺·菲尔不仅在他的广播节目中谈论爵士乐，有时他还创作音乐，并为爵士乐歌曲写歌词。
Willis Conover not only talked about jazz music on his program. He sometimes wrote the music and the words to jazz songs.
他说，欣赏、演奏爵士乐，人们可以通过音乐来表达他们对生活的态度，而且，爵士乐还能帮助人们树立起诚实正直的观念。
He said that with jazz people can express their lives through music. And that the music helps people to stand up a little straighter.
在他的爵士乐节目中，威利斯·科诺·菲尔播放了各种不同类型的爵士乐，他播放他喜欢的和不喜欢的爵士乐歌曲。
In his jazz programs Willis Conover played many kinds of jazz. He played songs he liked and songs he did not like.
古德曼在童年受过的爵士乐影响令他不可否定地认为，爵士乐前进的动力源泉来自非裔美国人。
Goodman's childhood listening had left him in no doubt that jazz's volatile fuel in this period had come from African-Americans.
全球经济低糜让上一代移民西方，尤其是移民美国的爵士乐者们又重返非洲故乡。爵士迷们希望能够再次迎来埃塞俄比亚爵士乐的鼎盛时期。
AFICIONADOS are hoping for a revival of the golden age of Ethiopian jazz, as players who emigrated westward a generation ago, especially to America, come home amid the global recession.
爵士乐唱片在古老的美国铸币厂展出，每年春天和传统节日都会上演新奥尔良爵士乐。
The jazz collection is displayed in the Old U.S. Mint. Each spring the city puts on the New Orleans jazz and Heritage Festival.
他们让四组被测分别用古典音乐、爵士乐、变奏古典音乐和变奏爵士乐进行单词学习。
They had four groups learn vocabulary words using one of four instrumental pieces - slow classical, slow jazz, fast classical, and fast jazz.
的确，他二十岁的时候得过格莱美奖，录过一些小众的爵士乐，之后还录过一些流行爵士乐。
Indeed, he was winning Grammys when he was in his twenties and has been recording sort of esoteric jazz and sometimes more pop jazz thereafter.
黑人革新家如路易斯·阿姆斯特朗，西德尼·贝切，艾灵顿公爵等都是爵士乐初期的创作者，他们在爵士乐诞生的头十年里用最大胆的想法为其奠定了基石。
Black innovators like Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Duke Ellington had been the primary inventors of jazz, touchstones for the most exciting ideas of its first decade.
尽管20年代期间成立了许多受到爵士乐影响的规模较大的乐团，但没有一个能像爵士艾灵顿那样如此富有远见、野心和前途。
Though many larger jazz-influenced ensembles were forming by the end of the 20s, none showed greater promise, vision and ambition than Duke Ellington's.
就像我过去常说的：‘噢，我希望我能喜欢爵士乐，爵士乐似乎是你能真正沉醉其中的东西。’
It's just like I used to say: 'Oh, I wish I liked jazz, jazz seems to be something you could really get into.'
那么和赋予爵士乐新灵魂的路易斯·阿姆斯特朗相比呢？还有重新定义爵士乐并使之为白人所接受的弗兰克·西纳特拉呢？
What about Louis Armstrong, who invented jazz, or Frank Sinatra, who reinvented it for white people?
这些研究员还做了另外一个测试，这次从严格控制音乐类型换成控制音乐节奏（如慢爵士乐变成快爵士乐）或者类型（如慢爵士乐变成慢古典乐）。
These same researchers did another test which restricted the changes in the music to just tempo (i.e. slow to fast jazz) or just genre (i.e. slow jazz to slow classical).
爵士乐一直都在变化，因为爵士乐是一种鲜活的音乐。
爵士乐一直都在变化，因为爵士乐是一种鲜活的音乐。
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