Over the next 50 weeks, I'm going to highlight landmark moments that were not only transitional points in the history of jazz, but in the history of modern music.

在接下来的五十周内，我将细数那些重要的历史时刻——它们不仅是爵士乐史上承前启后的枢纽，也对现代音乐产生了深远影响。

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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.

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。

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If you took a jazz-history course before 2000 or so, you almost certainly listened to The Smithsonian Collection of Classic jazz.

如果你在2000年之前修读爵士历史课程，那几乎可以肯定你不会错过史密森尼的经典爵士合集。

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For the first time in its history, the Sirius/XM radio network dedicated one of its channels exclusively to a jazz artist,trumpeter Miles Davis.

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It wasn't long before Sonny earned the nickname "the Saxophone Colossus, " and became known as one of the greatest improvisers in the history of jazz.

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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.

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After five years at the pub, he left to return to music full-time and developed the Rockin' in Rhythm show, which charted the history of jazz and played at theatres throughout Europe.

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