Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

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

* 1920 – John Lewis, American pianist, arranger, and composer ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2001 )

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

That same year he released " Jazz Impressions 1 " with pianist Silvano Monasterios and bassist Mark Egan.

* 1998: This song was covered by Jazz pianist Eric Reed for his album Pure Imagination.

* January 24 – Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo improvisation ' The Köln Concert ' at the Cologne Opera, which, recorded live, becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.

In July 2009, she will perform at North Sea Jazz Festival along with fellow pianist Hiromi Uehara.

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

Jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole, country singer Hank Williams, blues singer Big Mama Thornton, Melvin Franklin of The Temptations, and guitarist Tommy Shaw of Styx are among the many musicians to get their start in Montgomery.

" Jazz pianist George Shearing's quintet of the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by Miller: " with Shearing's locked hands style piano ( influenced by the voicing of Miller's saxophone section ) in the middle the quintet's harmonies.

* Jazz pianist and composer Tadd Dameron composed " Fontainebleau " upon visiting the palace.

W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars, includes noted musicians from all over the United States, such as guitarist Mundell Lowe, drummer Bill Goodwin, pianist / vocalist Johnny O ' Neal, vibraphone player Chuck Redd, pianist / vocalist Ray Reach and flautist Holly Hofmann.

* Bob Dorough, Jazz pianist and author of many famous Schoolhouse Rock!

* Johnny Costa – Jazz pianist

Currently happenings today can be found with Jazz in a whole new way through the artistic collaboration of renowned musicians American saxophonist David Liebman, French jazz pianist Jean-Marie Machado, and multimedia visual artist Barbara Januszkiewicz.

He also performed every Monday night, accompanied by a trio which included guitarist Lou Pallo, bassist Paul Nowinksi ( and later, Nicki Parrott ) and pianist John Colaianni, originally at Fat Tuesdays, and later at the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway in the Times Square area of New York City.

* Tom Vaughn, Jazz pianist and Episcopal Priest formerly at St. John's Episcopal Church

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson requested a live presentation, which he heard in an emotional re-performance in his home in March 2007.

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Mangione and his pianist brother Gap led the Jazz Brothers group which recorded three albums for Riverside Records.

She was accompanied by bandleader and pianist Thomas Dorsey, and the band he assembled called the Wildcats Jazz Band which included Eddie Pollack, Gabriel Washington, Albert Wynn and David Nelson.

Robinson joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band when pianist Henry Ragas died in the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1919.

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.

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

* Bill Crow, Jazz Musician / Author

While on a visit to the U. S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, and Art Farmer in an album of inventive orchestrations of jazz standards titled Legrand Jazz.

He attended the Eastman School of Music from 1958 to 1963, and afterwards joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for which he filled the trumpet seat, previously held by greats such as Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Bill Hardman, and Lee Morgan.

Several successful albums followed, such as Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Alone and The Bill Evans Album, among others.

* Portrait in Jazz – Bill Evans Trio

* New Jazz Conceptions – Bill Evans

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Every time he is thrown out of the house, he is shown wearing the same shirt although he does not always wear it when he is thrown out ( the producers never shot a second sequence with Jazz being thrown out of the house, only adjusting the original scene for time purposes ; an exception is in the episode " Community Action ", where Jazz was thrown out along with a lifesize cardboard cut-out of Bill Cosby, complete with a blooper showing Jeff Townes reshooting his flying off the house several times ).

Among the artists he recorded and brought to the world's attention were Joe " King " Oliver, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Memphis Minnie, Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Washboard Sam, Champion Jack Dupree, Jazz Gillum, Arthur Crudup, Victoria Spivey and Leroy Carr.

However, the Newport Jazz Festival recording on July 3, 1958 reflects the band in its hard bop conception, the presence of a Bill Evans only six weeks into his brief tenure in the Davis band notwithstanding, rather than the modal approach of Kind of Blue.

* Bud Shank and Bill Perkins ( 1955 – 58 )-Pacific Jazz

* Europafest: Jazz Highlights ( 2008 ) with Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune, Bob Berg, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and more

* Scott LaFaro, influential Jazz bassist, most notably with the first Bill Evans Trio.

** Bill Evans for Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival performed by the Bill Evans Trio

LaBarbera has played with jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe who described in an interview with All About Jazz reporter Fred Jung what it was like working with him:

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.

Following the end of the 2011 NBA lockout that saw the 2011 – 12 season shortened to 66 games, the Jazz bid farewell to their two longest-tenured players – Mehmet Okur was traded to the Nets for a future 2nd-round pick, and Andrei Kirilenko, who played in his native Russia during the lockout and whose contract had expired after the 2011 season, decided to stay in Russia for the remainder of the 2011 – 12 season.

Patti Rutland Jazz operates as a non-profit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization whose core mission is to offer its dancers to the Wiregrass Region to assist under-served youths with free dance classes.

* Thurl Bailey, retired NBA basketball player, whose career spanned from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves

Dave Liebman a NEA 2011 Jazz master is a perfect example of a forward-thinking player whose advanced style and association with Miles Davis makes him one of the most influential jazz musicians of his era.

* Workshop Jazz Records: Motown's jazz subsidiary, active from 1962 to 1964. Notable Workshop Jazz artists included the George Bohannon Trio and Four Tops ( whose recordings for the label went unissued for 30 years ).

More recently, Arab American literature, largely unnoticed since the New York Pen League of the 1920s, has become more prominent through the work of Diana Abu-Jaber, whose novels include Arabian Jazz and Crescent and the memoir The Language of Baklava.

These included Prince Nico Mbarga and his band Rocafil Jazz, whose " Sweet Mother " was a pan-African hit that sold more than 13 million copies, more than any other African single of any kind.

It was at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in 1949 that Brown first worked with the jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, in whose trio Brown would play from 1951 to 1966.

During the 1970s / 80s, Segal made frequent television appearances with the " Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band ", whose members included actor Conrad Janis on trombone.

* Karl Malone, former basketball star of the Utah Jazz, whose nickname is " The Mailman "

Legendary saxophonist Jackie McLean, founder of Hartt's African-American music program, recommended Steve to Art Blakey, whose Jazz Messengers he joined at Sweet Basil in New York in December 1989.

In the program, Club president Erdman Harris ' 20 described the new production: " We hope that a new day has dawned, that ‘ Jazz ’ will be forever relegated to a back seat, that Broadway will cease to be the idol of those who create the shows, that their staging shall be done in Princeton by Princeton men, and that the authorities and graduates will approve what is being done to elevate the standard of a society whose value in student life has been seriously questioned.

Recently he has recorded a new Quartet West album with Charlie Haden, and also works with vocalist Kurt Elling, whose album Dedicated To You, featuring Watts, won a Grammy in 2010 for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

* Mo Foster is a highly regarded UK session bassist whose ' voice ' is a fretless Fender Jazz bass.

As a college student, he was a member of a band called The Jazz Insects, whose first single was played by John Peel in his radio show .< ref >

The label's first releases were 78 rpm reissues featuring Ma Rainey, Clarence Williams Blue Five, and James P. Johnson, but Storyville soon began releasing original recordings, starting with Ken Colyer's Jazz Men, a British group whose members included trombonist Chris Barber, clarinetist Monty Sunshine, and singer-guitarist Lonnie Donegan.

The most notable recording artists of the fledgling Asian jazz label, Candid Records Philippines, are the Filipino-British singer-songwriter, Mishka Adams, who had since been migrated to the mainstream Candid U. K. label ; the guitarist-composer, Johnny Alegre with his jazz group, AFFINITY ( whose album was launched in London's PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2005 ); and Mon David, who won the London International Jazz ( Singers ') Competition in 2006.

The Jazz Plus Bass was available with an alder body and the option of a natural-finish ash body on the four-string model for a $ 100 upcharge, either a maple or rosewood fretboard on the four-string and pau ferro ( an exotic hardwood whose tone is brighter than rosewood yet warmer than ebony ) on the five-string.

In the early years of " talkie " films ( beginning in 1927, see The Jazz Singer ) a few actors continued to act silently for comedic effect, most famously Charlie Chaplin, whose last great " silent " comedies City Lights ( 1931 ) and Modern Times ( 1936 ) were both made in the sound age.