In addition to sideman work, he led his own groups, including the Jazz Prophets ( formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name ).

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 Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".

In 1966, with his orchestra, he recorded an album on the Ranwood Records label, with top-flight Jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges, featuring a number of Jazz standards, including " Someone to Watch Over Me ", " Misty " and " Fantastic, That's You ".

He also toured with the Jazz at the Philharmonic show in 1957 and 1960, the first tour yielding a memorable live album featuring Johnson and tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.

On June 9, 2010, which would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday, a tribute concert featuring Jeff Beck, Imelda May, Gary U. S. Bonds and Brian Setzer among others, was held at the Iridium Jazz Club where Les Paul played nearly every week almost to the end of his life.

The latter earned her a Tony Award as " Best Female Star of a Musical ", and a Grammy Award as Best Female Jazz Artist for her album, Blues on Broadway, featuring hits from the show.

Whiteman's orchestra also performed the piece in the 1930 film The King of Jazz featuring Roy Bargy on piano.

This label released a record of a May 15, 1953 concert, billed as ' the greatest concert ever ', which came to be known as Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Mingus and Roach.

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 ).

A DVD video of the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival performance ( featuring the Heavy Weather lineup of Pastorius, Acuna, and Badrena ) has become available as well.

" Taylor's Quartet featuring Lacy also appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival.

2009 saw his release of Jazz in the Garden, featuring the Stanley Clarke Trio: with Clarke, pianist Hiromi Uehara, and Lenny White on drums.

Drummer Jack DeJohnette's Parallel Realities band featuring fellow Miles's alumni Dave Holland and Herbie Hancock, along with Pat Metheny, recorded and toured in 1990, highlighted by a DVD of a live performance at the Mellon Jazz Festival in Philadelphia.

* Jazzfusion. tv: The Web's largest open access source for non-commercially-released Classic Jazz Fusion Audio Recordings, circa 1970s – 1980s, curated by Rich Rivkin, featuring works by most of the artists referenced in the above article.

The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival is performed annually, featuring famous International as well as Indonesian jazz musicians.

* Monopoly Game, a 1998 recording by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin

* Jazz as I Feel It ( 1963 )( featuring Groove Holmes )

2005 saw a release credited to the Ōtomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra ( ONJO ), featuring top European improvisors Axel Dörner, Cor Fuhler, Mats Gustafsson, Alfred Harth.

* 1957: Jazz Contrasts ( Riverside ) featuring Sonny Rollins

The Soft Machine name was used for the 1981 record Land of Cockayne ( with Jack Bruce and, again, Allan Holdsworth, plus Ray Warleigh and Dick Morrissey on saxes and John Taylor on electric piano ), and for a final series of dates at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the summer of 1984, featuring Jenkins and Marshall leading an ad hoc lineup of Etheridge, Warleigh, pianist Dave MacRae and bassist Paul Carmichael.

In 2005, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced a partnership with XM Satellite Radio which gave XM studio space at Frederick P. Rose Hall to broadcast both daily jazz programming and special events such as an Artist Confidential show featuring Carlos Santana.

For National Educational Television ( now known as PBS ), Gleason produced a series of twenty-eight programs on jazz and blues, Jazz Casual, featuring B. B.

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.

Jazz has played an important role in Eastwood's life from a young age and, although he never made it as a professional musician, he passed on the influence to his son Kyle Eastwood, a successful jazz bassist and composer.

During the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, " the Horatio Alger plot was viewed from the perspective of the Progressive movement as a staunch defense of laissez-faire capitalism, yet at the same time criticizing the cutthroat business techniques and offering hope to a suffering young generation during the Great Depression ".

The young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( which was not in fact “ original ,” but was the first “ jazz ” band to record ), and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on the young cornet player.

Jazz was still comparatively young then and consisted of two racially separated streams.

Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.

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.

When Benny Golson left the Jazz Messengers, Morgan persuaded Blakey to hire Wayne Shorter, a young tenor saxophonist, to fill the chair.

In 1952, Steiner leased reissue rights to a newly-formed jazz label, Riverside Records, which reissued a substantial number of 10 " and then 12 " LPs by many of the blues singers in the Paramount catalog, as well as instrumental jazz by such Chicago-based notables as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band ( which included a very young Louis Armstrong ), Johnny Dodds, Muggsy Spanier, and Meade Lux Lewis.

The newspapers of New York saw them as embodiments of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties: young, seemingly wealthy, beautiful.

* Paolo Hewitt / Kenney Jones ( 1995 ) small faces the young mods ' forgotten story – Acid Jazz ISBN 0-9523935-0-6

In the 1920s Adams wrote two novels, Flaming Youth and Unforbidden Fruit, dealing with the sexual urges of young women in the Jazz Age: these novels had a sexual frankness that was shocking for their time, and Adams published them under the pseudonym " Warner Fabian " so that his other works would not be tainted by any scandal accruing to these novels.

However, by the Jazz Age of the 1920s, dating for fun was becoming a cultural expectation, and by the 1930s, it was assumed that any popular young person would have lots of dates.

He also managed his former musical partners, the Modern Jazz Quartet, as well as a young Quincy Jones, produced some shows for the Hollywood Bowl, wrote jazz bass instruction books, and developed a jazz cello.

Inspired by hearing Thelonious Monk's "' Round Midnight ", Russell moved to New York in the early 1940s, where he became a member of a coterie of young innovators who frequented the 55th Street apartment of Gil Evans, a clique which included Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis, later involved with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Julian doesn't belong to Fitzgerald's Jazz Age ; he is ten years younger and belongs to what came to be called the hangover generation, the young people who grew up accustomed to the good life without having to earn it.

The young Roy Radabaugh, as he was then known, had just two days in film extra work on the side, and can be seen in King of Jazz ( 1930 ), along with Paul Whiteman and his band.

" ( Jazz Fudge, 1995 ) and DJ Skitz released " Where My Mind Is At / Blessed Be The Manor " ( Ronin Records, 1996 ) featuring a young rapper called Roots Manuva on guest vocals who had previously released the single " Next Type of Motion " ( Sound of Money, 1995 ).

In a Congolese musical world dominated at the time by Franco Luambo and his remarkable band TPOK Jazz, Tabu Ley Rochereau's Afrisa, and by then-new musical groups like Les Grands Maquisards, Le Trio Madjesi, and even younger bands like Bella-Bella, Thu Zaina and Empire Bakuba, the young and talented Papa Wemba ( then known as Jules Presley Shungu Wembadio ), was one of the driving forces that by 1973 made Zaiko Langa Langa one of the most-performing dominant Congolese groups, featuring such popular numbers as " Chouchouna " ( Papa Wemba ), " Eluzam " and " Mbeya Mbeya " ( Evoloko Lay Lay ), " BP ya Munu " ( Efonge Gina ), " Mwana Wabi " and " Mizou " ( Bimi Ombale ) and " Zania " ( Mavuela Somo ).

Marvel U. K .' s " Man of Iron " saw him befriending ( as well as abducting ) a young boy in rural England, helping the Autobots locate a lost ship under Stansham Castle ; Jazz personally destroyed it to stop the Decepticons retrieving it.

Jazz composer Billy Strayhorn and his family moved to Homewood from Dayton, Ohio, when Strayhorn was very young.