Jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Paul Whiteman first popularized jazz music among a diverse audience.

They were, together with among others Franco Luambo's OK Jazz band, pioneers of the African variant of Rumba, that later evolved into Soukous.

There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.

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 musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

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 often try to imbue their melodic phrasing with the sense of natural breathing and legato phrasing used by horn players such as saxophone players.

Films about performers which incorporated gritty drama and musical numbers interwoven as a diegetic part of the storyline were produced, such as All That Jazz, Saturday Night Fever, and New York, New York.

One might say that Surrealist strands may be found in movements such as Free Jazz ( Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor etc.

Epic had been using this technology for other games such as Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall: 2097, which allowed relatively rich music to be stored in files usually smaller than one megabyte.

Dancers and choreographers such as Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Doris Humphrey, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor re-defined movement, struggling to bring it back to its ' natural ' roots and along with Jazz, created a solely American art form.

Being a vacation resort, Nice hosts many festivals throughout the year, such as the Carnaval de Nice and the Nice Jazz Festival.

's-Hertogenbosch is home to a variety of events such as the theatre festival Boulevard, Jazz in Duketown, and hip hop in duketown, the start of the Tour de France ( 1996 ), Tour Feminine ( 1997 ), the International Vocal Competition, November Music ( a contemporary music festival ) and the UNICEF Open ( formerly the Ordina Open ) grass court tennis tournament ( in the nearby town of Rosmalen ).

The surprising success of the band influenced other groups to form jazz bands and to record the new music of jazz, such as " Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band ", the Frisco Jazz Band, and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.

There were also " all-girl " bands such as " Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators ".

Jazz and alternative music ( such as Sydney-based The Necks ) are played at The Basement and Jazz at 72, and formerly at the now defunct Harbourside Brasserie.

In that time, Miami posted a nine-game winning streak ( defeating such teams as the Pistons, Wizards, Bulls and Jazz ), in addition to extending a home winning streak to 14.

Their CCTV live show was featured at major festivals including Glastonbury, Roskilde, Sónar, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and John Peel's Meltdown.

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

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

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.

alt = l-r: John Deacon, Brian May, and Freddie Mercury seen live in 1978 In 1978, the band released Jazz, which included the hit singles " Fat Bottomed Girls " and " Bicycle Race " on a double-sided record.

North Omaha has several historical cultural attractions including the Dreamland Historical Project, Love ’ s Jazz and Art Center, and the John Beasley Theater.

Jazz artist John Paul Larkin ( better known as Scatman John ) renewed interest in the genre briefly during the mid-1990s when he began fusing Jazz singing with pop music and electronica, scoring a world-wide hit with the song Scatman ( Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop ) in 1994.

John Kelman of All About Jazz noted that an " overbearing sense of self-importance turned ELP from one of the 1970's most exciting new groups into the definition of masturbatory excess and self-aggrandizement in only a few short years.

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.

Originally created by Rand MacIvor ( under Art Director John C. Galt ), who was inspired by Terry Gilliam's " gilliamations ", the opening animation sequence was a sequence of surreal images set to Rossini's William Tell Overture, performed in a Dixieland jazz arrangement by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band.

On July 18, 2009, Prince performed two shows at the Montreux Jazz Festival, being backed by The New Power Generation including Rhonda Smith, Renato Neto and John Blackwell.

In 1979, Williams, guitarist John McLaughlin and bassist Jaco Pastorius united for a one-time performance at the Havana Jazz Festival.

John Amaechi, who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers ( as well as internationally with Panathinaikos BC of the Greek Basketball League and Kinder Bologna of the Italian Basketball League ), came out in February 2007 on ESPN's Outside the Lines program.

* John Lewis Presents Jazz Abstractions ( 1960 )

The Bulls capped the season by winning their fifth NBA championship over John Stockton, Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz.

Led by Karl Malone and John Stockton, the Jazz felt confident that they could defeat the Bulls, winning game one at Utah's Delta Center.

Prior to the 1986 – 87 season, the Pistons acquired more key players: John Salley ( drafted 11th overall ), Dennis Rodman ( drafted 27th ) and Adrian Dantley ( acquired in a trade with the Utah Jazz ).

Williams and Boozer joined former Jazz players John Stockton and Karl Malone as the only Jazzmen to be selected to play for the U. S. team.

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.

Miles Davis, who had performed the title track of his album Walkin ' at the inaugural Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, would form the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane in 1955, becoming prominent in hard bop before moving on to other styles.

* Elvin Jones: Jazz Machine ( 2008 ) with Sonny Fortune, Ravi Coltrane, Willie Pickens and Chip Jackson

King, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach, among others.

After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956, he performed with many leading jazz musicians of the day, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and later Herbie Hancock.

King, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Sonny Rollins, among others.

in Farmingdale, New York, the same cemetery that holds Jazz greats Count Basie and John Coltrane.

* Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane and Other Jazz Poems ( Musicworks, 1977 )

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.

They have a Yorkshire Terrier named Sammy Davis Jr. and two cats named Ella and Coltrane, also known as their " Jazz Cats " because they were named after jazz performers Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane.

The Coltrane Quartet played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2001, the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival in 2004, and the Vienne Jazz Festival in 2005.

Image: TynerColtraneMcBrideHaynesBrecker. jpg | Ravi Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes and Michael Brecker performing at the Newport Jazz Festival on August 14, 2004.

Image: RaviColtraneTerellStaffordCharnettMoffett. jpg | Ravi Coltrane with Terell Stafford and Charnett Moffett at the Newport Jazz Festival on August 13, 2005.

* All About Jazz: Ravi Coltrane: In Flux

Jazz saxophonists John Coltrane ( most notably on the landmark album My Favorite Things ), Walter Parazaider, Sidney Bechet, Bob Berg, Wayne Shorter, Joe Farrell, Steve Lacy, Joe Giardullo, Lucky Thompson, Sonny Fortune, Anthony Braxton, Gary Bartz, Dan Forshaw, Bennie Maupin, Branford Marsalis, Kirk Whalum, Jan Garbarek, Danny Markovitch of Marbin, Paul Winter, Dave Liebman, Evan Parker, Sam Newsome.