Jazz bassist Christian McBride released two fusion recordings drawing from the jazz-funk idiom in Sci-Fi ( 2000 ) and Vertical Vision ( 2003 ).

It was his last work in the Jazz idiom.

In 1953, under the direction of John Hammond, the company began the ' Jazz Showcase ' series that concentrated on the mainstream jazz idiom, producing about two dozen recordings before it was wound down about 1958.

A Jazz song is a song in the jazz idiom.

Tracey continued to work in this idiom with Evan Parker at the UK ’ s Appleby Jazz Festival for several years, but this has always been more of a sideline for Tracey, who said that he " took more out of free music into the mainstream than I did from mainstream into free ".

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

Jazz had always been a strong love of his, and often in his career he was criticized by " pure " country musicians for his jazz influences.

Jazz bassist Charles Mingus was also an influential bandleader and composer whose musical interests spanned from bebop to free jazz.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists.

* Jazz fusion, music combining jazz with other genres

European harmonica player Philip Achille, who performs Irish, Classical, Jazz, Qawali and sufi music, has won jazz competitions and his classical performances have led to appearances on the BBC as well as ITV and Channel 4.

Jazz guitar playing styles include " comping " with jazz chord voicings ( and in some cases walking basslines ) and " blowing " ( improvising ) over jazz chord progressions with jazz-style phrasing and ornaments.

Jazz guitarists use their knowledge of harmony and jazz theory to create jazz chord " voicings ," which emphasize the 3rd and 7th notes of the chord.

Jazz guitarists learn to perform these chords over the range of different chord progressions used in jazz, such as the II-V-I progression, the jazz-style blues progression, the minor jazz-style blues form, the " rhythm changes " progression, and the variety of chord progressions used in jazz ballads, and jazz standards.

Jazz guitarists usually learn the appropriate ornamenting styles by listening to prominent recordings from a given style or jazz era.

Reiko Obata, founder of East West Jazz band, is the first to perform and record an album of jazz standards featuring koto.

The annual " Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival ", which attracts top jazz stars nationwide and large out-of-town audiences, has been rated Kansas City's " best festival.

The gift was the reason why the jazz program at UNCG is named the " Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program.

* 2001 – John Lewis, American jazz pianist ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( b. 1920 )

He underwent a long rehabilitation process just prior to beginning principal photography for his 1980 film The Jazz Singer.

In addition to the various academic classes, Kamiakin High School has numerous school activities that include ASB, Instrumental Music ( Jazz Band, Choir, Pep Band, Marching Band, Orchestra ), Buddy Club, dance team, DECA, drama, foreign exchange, Key Club, photography club, tech club, swing club, the Tomatalk newspaper, yearbook and Link Crew.

The school's arts classes include dance, music ( vocal, Jazz, and orchestral ), theatre, literary arts, moving image arts ( film and animation ), and visual art ( both visual art and photography ).

In 1993, Charles was signed to the Acid Jazz record label.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

** Jazz bassist / composer Charles Mingus presents a disastrous concert at Town Hall in New York City.

The Strand plays host to a yearly Mardi Gras festival, Galveston Island Jazz & Blues Festival and a Victorian-themed Christmas festival called Dickens on the Strand ( honoring the works of novelist Charles Dickens, especially A Christmas Carol ) in early December.

Noteworthy performers included: Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, Sun Ra, Gary MacFarland, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Carla Bley, Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, Sam Rivers, Don Ellis, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Anthony Braxton.

* Mary Ann Fisher African-American Jazz singer of, the Ray Charles group, The Raelettes

Jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus wrote the tone poem Pithecanthropus Erectus to tell the story of the evolution of man and his eventual downfall.

These included Phase 4 Stereo recordings of Gustav Holst's The Planets and Charles Ives's 2nd Symphony, as well as an album entitled " The Impressionists " ( music by Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré and Honegger ) and another entitled " The Four Faces of Jazz " ( works by Weill, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Milhaud ).

Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, recites a variation on the poem in the introduction to his composition “ Don't Let it Happen Here ”.

All of these musicians had strong backgrounds in jazz ; Berliner had worked closely with Charles Mingus and Kay was part of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

As a young man McLean also recorded with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus on the seminal Pithecanthropus Erectus, George Wallington, and as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

* Sangam ( 2006 ) – Jazz collaboration with bandleader Charles Lloyd.

Schuller is editor-in-chief of Jazz Masterworks Editions, and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Washington, D. C. Another recent effort of preservation was his editing and posthumous premiering at Lincoln Center in 1989 of Charles Mingus ' immense final work, Epitaph, subsequently released on Columbia / Sony Records.

After sweeping the Los Angeles Clippers and defeating the Los Angeles Lakers, the Jazz took on the Houston Rockets, led by the aging trio of Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, and Clyde Drexler.

* Charles Rattray ( 1911 – 1995 ), English footballer nicknamed " Jazz "

He later played with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, and Lou Donaldson, and led a group with Junior Cook.

Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others, as well as leading his own group and working as the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts.

7: Blue Note Now & Then ( Various ); Blue Valentines ( Various ); Down Here Below ( Jeffery Smith ); Edge ( Lenny White ); Jazznavour ( Charles Aznavour ); Just the Ticket ( Original Soundtrack ) ( bckgr ); Live at the Blue Note: 75th Birthday Celebration ( Chico & Von Freeman ); Live in Swing City: Swingin with the Duke ( Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis ); Manhattan Melodies ( Eric Reed ); Native Voices ( Various ); R ' N ' Browne ( Tom Browne ); Tribute to Ellington ( Daniel Barenboim )

Charles ' debut for the label, Genius + Soul = Jazz provided Impulse with its first major hit, and became the fourth-highest charting album of Charles ' career.