Berendt defines jazz as a " form of art music which originated in the United States through the confrontation of blacks with European music "; he argues that jazz differs from European music in that jazz has a " special relationship to time, defined as ' swing '", " a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role "; and " sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician ".

Voight played the role of spymaster James Phelps, a role originated by Peter Graves in the television series.

She originated the role of Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, winning the 1995 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.

He originated the role of King Arthur in the Broadway hit Monty Python's Spamalot.

In 1987-88, Curry did the national tour of Me and My Girl as the lead role of ' Bill Snibson ', a role originated on Broadway by Robert Lindsay and followed by Jim Dale.

Woks may have originated during Chinese military marches, when soldiers began to give their helmets a double role at camp.

( Godley had originated the role in the 1998 National Theatre play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick on which Cor Blimey!

Michael Urie, who originated the role of Rudi Gernreich, received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.

Because its early forms originated in England in the Middle Ages, this is particularly true in Anglo-American legal traditions and in former colonies of the British Empire, while also playing a role in some countries that have mixed systems with significant admixtures of civil law.

Sendmail originated in the early days of the Internet, an era when considerations of security did not play a primary role in the development of network software.

The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers.

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

Dabadie sang in Italy, too, where he originated the role of Belcore in L ' elisir d ' amore in 1832.

Wendy Hiller originated the role of Catherine on Broadway ; in the West End, Peggy Ashcroft portrayed the title character.

Ralph Richardson reprised the role of Austin Sloper he originated in the London production.

Parliament's role in deciding litigation originated from the similar role of the Royal Court, where the King dispensed justice.

In 1947, Hiller originated the role of Catherine Sloper, the painfully shy, vulnerable spinster in The Heiress on Broadway.

In 1968 he originated the continuing role of Scott Banning in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives.

In 1967 he originated the role of Charlie Brown in the original Off-Broadway production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

In 1972, Christopher landed the role of Father Mulcahy in the television series M * A * S * H, when the actor who originated the role, George Morgan, was replaced after just one appearance in the pilot episode.

Rogers took on the role of Major Tony Nelson which was originally portrayed by Larry Hagman ( of the CBS TV series Dallas fame ) in the TV series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise the character he had originated.

Scotland is home to the international governing body for curling, the World Curling Federation, Perth, which originated as a committee of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the mother club of curling.

DiCostanza's in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania claims that the mother of DiConstanza's owner originated the hoagie in 1925 in Chester.

When he was two, his mother moved to the South Bronx near the Bronx Zoo, to live with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi, who originated from Corleone, Sicily.

His mother ’ s family originated from Alsace-Lorraine and had moved to Belgium after the annexation of the region by the German Reich in 1871.

The last king of the Neo-Babylonian period, Nabonidus, also originated from Harran as substantiated by evidence from the temple of stele of his mother Adad-Guppi, who is suspected by some to be of Assyrian origin.

The term originated as a pseudo-English Japanese word ( a wasei-eigo ), which was coined to describe the intimacy, or closeness, between a mother and a child.

As Eleanor of Aquitaine ( 1122 ?/ 1124 ?- 1204 ) was the first high profile bearer of the name and as she was the daughter of Aénor de Châtellerault it has been suggested that the name Eleanor originated with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the postulation being that Eleanor of Aquitaine was named Aénor after her mother but referred to as Aliénor that name representing " Alia-Aénor " i. e. the other Aénor.

Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún suspected that the emerging cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which originated with the vision at Tepeyac Hill to the north of the city's borders in 1531, represented a post-Conquest adaption of the Aztec cult of Tonantzin, who was identified with Coatlicue, the mother goddess who had given birth to Huitzilopochtli.

Laurette Taylor originated the role of the all-too-loving mother, Amanda Wingfield.

The composer originated from Athens, Georgia, where his father ( Robert Allen Cole, Sr .) and mother ( Isabella Thomas Weldon ) settled after the freedom of blacks through the Emancipation Proclamation.

This usage of the words " metropolis " and " metropolitan " itself came from ancient Greek " metropolis " ( from μήτηρ mētēr " mother " and πόλις pólis " city, town ") which was the name for a city-state from which originated colonies across the Mediterranean ( e. g. Marseille was a colony of the city-state of Phocaea, therefore Phocaea was the " metropolis " of Marseille ).

The medieval chronicle recounts the story of his birth as follows: " his pregnant mother had seen a divine vision in her dream of a Turul bird, as it were flying over her and getting her with child ; and a spring seemed to rise from her womb and many great kings originated from her loins, although they would multiply not in their own lands ".

His mother was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Jewish family that originated in Prussia, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Frankfurt, Germany.

Ekaterina Vassilievna Shaposhnikova, Helena ’ s mother, belonged to the age-old Golenischev-Kutuzov family, which originated from Novgorod at the end of the 13th century.

It is later found out that he fathered Elphaba while her mother was under the influence of the Miracle Elixir, which may explain Elphaba's green skin, her aquaphobia, and occasional ability to read parts of the Grimmerie, which originated in the Wizard's world.

His father Bogdan who drove a truck for a living originated from a Serb family while his mother Viktorija, a worker in a shoe factory, has Croatian family background.

If the functional allele originated from the mother, the offspring will exhibit dwarfism, whereas a paternal allele will generate a normal sized mouse.

The Coneheads is a sketch on Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) which originated on the January 15, 1977, episode, and starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie.

Jacob Moreno's mother, Paulina Iancu or Wolf, was also a Sephardi Jew, born in 1873, and originated from Călăraşi, Romania.

One of the stories says that the Frito pie originated with Frito-Lay's founder Elmer Doolin's mother.

According to legend, the mother of a Ming Dynasty emperor was cured of an illness by a certain tea, and that emperor sent great red robes to clothe the four bushes from which that tea originated.

According to Lead Belly, the song originated from " down south " and claimed to have learned it from his mother, Sallie Brown.