Jazz was an important influence in Alston's work and socila life, representing itself in other works like Jazz ( 1950 ) and Harlem at Night.

Jazz innovator Miles Davis recorded and performed with musicians like Khalil Balakrishna, Bihari Sharma, and Badal Roy in his post-1968 electric ensembles.

The quartet became especially popular with college-age audiences, often performing in college settings like on their ground-breaking 1953 album Jazz at Oberlin at Oberlin College, or on their recordings on the campuses of Ohio University and the University of Michigan, among others.

The trio's 2000 studio recording, entitled " Don't Be Scared Anymore ", received reviews of " This album is like the soundtrack to the world's coolest vacation " from All About Jazz and " Jazz-rock in the truest sense " from Allmusic.

Tanzania has its own distinct African rumba music, termed muziki wa dansi (" dance music ") where names of artists / groups like Tabora Jazz, Western Jazz Band, Morogoro Jazz, Volcano Jazz, Simba Wanyika, Remmy Ongala, Marijani Shaabani, Ndala Kasheba, NUTA JAZZ, ATOMIC JAZZ, DDC Mlimani Park, Afro 70 & Patrick Balisidya, Sunburst, Tatu Nane and Orchestra Makassy must be mentioned in the history of Tanzanian music.

* George McKay ( 2004 ) '" Unsafe things like youth and jazz ": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals ( 1956 – 61 ) and the origins of pop festival culture in Britain '.

From 1982 the Terrassa Jazz Festival is specially outstanding, with guests like Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie ...

In the 1990's, the Midwest was at the center of the " Emo " movement, with bands like the Get Up Kids ( Kansas ), Cursive ( Nebraska ), Christie Front Drive ( Colorado ) and Cap ' n Jazz ( Illinois ) blending earlier hardcore punk sounds with a more melodic indie rock sentiment.

Jazz saxophonist Earl Bostic revived his career with instrumentals like " Harlem Nocturne " and " Earl's Rhumboogie ".

Up until the swing era, Jazz had been taken in high regard by the most serious musicians around the world, including classical composers like Stravinsky ; swing on the contrary, with its " dance craze ", ended being regarded as a degeneration towards light entertainment, more of an industry to sell records to the masses than a form of art.

At one their gigs at The Black Lion in 1985, they came to the attention of Pat Fish, the leader of the recording band The Jazz Butcher ; he felt Spacemen 3 were " extraordinary " and " like nothing else ".

Blues music was relatively well known to British Jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie Woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.

But by the end of the 1920s, films like The Jazz Singer could be presented with synchronized sound, and critics wondered if the cinema would replace live theatre altogether.

Jazz artists like Louis Armstrong originally received very little airtime because most stations preferred to play the music of white American jazz singers.

Blaenau Ffestiniog has a strong musical tradition, from the quarrying boom days with the Caban, male voice choirs and brass bands, to the Jazz / Dance bands like " The New Majestics " and the popular rock bands of the 80s and 90s such as Llwybr Llaethog and Anweledig, to more recent bands such as Gai Toms, Frizbee and Gwibdaith Hen Fran.

Hip hop became very much at the service of the rapper and Cash Money and DJ Jazzy Jeff, saddled with B-list rappers like Marvelous and the Fresh Prince, were accorded maybe one track on an album-for example, DJ Jazzy Jeff's " A Touch of Jazz " ( 1987 ) and " Jazzy's in the House " ( 1988 ) and Cash Money's " The Music Maker " ( 1988 ).

One of the eight original WNBA teams, the Utah Starzz ( partially named after the old ABA team, the Utah Stars, but with the zz at the end like the Utah Jazz ) never met the same success as their ( former ) counterpart in the NBA, the Utah Jazz.

The country's best jazz musicians are featured during Jazz à la Martinique, but major worldwide players like Branford Marsalis also perform.

Young Tanzanians organized themselves into dance clubs like the Dar Es Salaam Jazz Band, which was founded in 1932.

Jazz is sex, marijuana is a stimulus to sex, the beat tempo is adjusted to the orgiastic release of the sexual impulse.

Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;

Betty Boop is regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen ; she is a symbol of the Depression era, and a reminder of the more carefree days of Jazz Age flappers.

In the January, 2007 issue of Q magazine, Stewart recalled: " Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival.

Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.

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.

* 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.

The College is home to the nationally acclaimed " Bodmin College Jazz Orchestra ", founded and run by the previous Director of Music, Adrian Evans, until 2007 and more recently, by the current Director, Ben Vincent.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

The Fender Jazz Bass is often associated with disco bass lines, because the instrument itself has a very prominent " voice " in the musical mix.

Alongside these major festivals, there is also the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival ( moved to June from 2008 ), the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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.

It is generally accepted that the tenor guitar was created to allow a tenor banjo player to follow the fashion as it evolved from Dixieland Jazz towards the more progressive Jazz that featured guitar.

This signature model is a recreation of Lee's favourite bass, a 1972 Fender Jazz that he bought in a pawn shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in black communities in the Southern United States.

In a 1988 interview, trombonist J. J. Johnson said, " Jazz is restless.

Jazz, on the other hand, is often characterized as the product of egalitarian creativity, interaction and collaboration, placing equal value on the contributions of composer ( if there is one ) and performer, ' adroitly weigh the respective claims of the composer and the improviser '.

Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles.

Jazz was a big hit in the early 50's and it is stil a well loved style of dance all over the world

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck composed " Koto Song " that, while not featuring the koto itself, is played to allow the piano to emulate its sound.

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

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