About one third of jazz is in blues form with twelve measures4 in a song and USES — blue notes, "the flatted third, fifth, and seventh notes of the musical scale."

大约有三分之一的爵士乐采用蓝调形式，一首歌有12小节，使用“蓝音”，即把第三、五、七个音阶降半音(如c大调的E、G、B)。

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He and the legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock played a four hands version of a Maurice Ravel song, exchanging hugs afterward (see video of the performance here, and on Mr. Lang's website here).

他和传奇爵士钢琴家herbie Hancock四手联弹了一首作曲家莫里斯·拉威尔的歌曲，然后交换拥抱(表演视频见，以及郎先生的官网)。

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The song have a syncopate rhythm in the jazz version.

这首歌曲改编为爵士乐后采用了切分音节奏。

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This year's additions to the eighth yearly National Recording Registry include jazz and rock songs, rap music and a classic motion picture theme song.

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Freddie Hubbard wrote this jazz song and the Billy Taylor Trio performs it.

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She sings the soulful song "Hold Me Again" with jazz great Les McCann.

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Toward the end, Nash said, "No tribute to Blue Note records would be complete without honoring Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, " and then launched "Mosaic, " a song from the early 1960s by Cedar Walton with blistering cymbals, struck from above and below.

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While this compilation highlights West Africa, any fan of Ethiopia's famed Mulatu Astatke already knows he incorporated heavy Latin influences into his signature Ethio-jazz styles, such as the descarga-flavored song "I faram Gami I faram" recently featured on a recent Astake anthology.

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And they close with an original, "Mephisto, " a song Benevento wrote while a member of The Jazz Farmers, his first band in New York.

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