With the success of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool, Warner Bros. purchased a majority interest in First National in September 1928.

It was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of " The Jazz Singer " in 1927.

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.

A lot of attempts were made before the success of the Jazz Singer, that can be seen in the List of film sound systems.

" When he saw Al Jolson singing in The Jazz Singer in 1927, considered the first talkie, Capra recalled his reaction:

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 ".

* 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

Lee starred and sang in the hit films The Jazz Singer, Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1952 Lee played opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer.

After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, " talkies " became more and more commonplace.

Although the release of The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) by Warner Brothers marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films were the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928, along with so-called goat-glanded films: silents with a section of sound film inserted.

As a result of the financial problems the studio was having, Warner Bros. took the next step and released The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.

Thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer, the studio was cash-rich.

With the success of these first talkies ( The Jazz Singer, Lights of New York, The Singing Fool, and The Terror ), Warner Bros. became one of the top studios in Hollywood and the brothers were now able to move out from the Poverty Row section of Hollywood and acquire a big studio in Burbank, California.

* Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show, 1929.

* October 6 – The Jazz Singer opens in the United States and it becomes a huge success, although it would be a while before silent films are completely gone.

* Day of Atonement ( play ), a play by Samson Raphaelson, which became the 1927 film The Jazz Singer

One week after the marriage, The Jazz Singer was released.

The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927.

Newspaper ad from a fully equipped theater in Tacoma, Washington, showing The Jazz Singer ( 1927 film ) | The Jazz Singer, on Vitaphone, and a Fox newsreel, on Movietone sound system | Movietone, together on the same bill.

Then, on October 6, 1927, Warner Bros .' The Jazz Singer premiered.

Though the success of The Jazz Singer was due largely to Jolson, already established as one of America's biggest music stars, and its limited use of synchronized sound hardly qualified it as an innovative sound film ( let alone the " first "), the movie's profits were proof enough to the industry that the technology was worth investing in.

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

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

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

Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.

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.

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.