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.

There are also important festivals of Jazz ( July ), Bayonne ham ( Holy Week ), theatre and pelota ( the Basque sport ).

There are also two Caltech Jazz Bands and a Concert Band.

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.

The exact meanings of both numbers and letters differ from manufacturer to manufacturer, and some sticks are not described using this system at all, just being known as Jazz ( typically a 7N or 8N ) or Heavy Rock ( typically a 4B or 5B ) for example.

Jazz guitar soloists are not limited to playing single notes by their instrument, allowing them to create " chord solos " by adding indicating a melody using the top note of their chord voicings.

* 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.

Both qualities — complementary or " correlated " phrasing and cultivation of the vocal, " singing " middle-range of the cornet — are on display in Bix's " Jazz Me Blues " solo, along with an already discernible inclination for unusual accidentals and inner chordal voices.

Oliver was also a talented composer, and wrote many tunes that are still regularly played, including " Dipper Mouth Blues ", " Sweet Like This ", " Canal Street Blues ", and " Doctor Jazz ".

Jazz double bass | bass walking bass lines are traditionally played with pizzicato.

There are annual festivals and events: the Eurochocolate Festival ( October ), the Umbria Jazz Festival, and the International Journalism Festival ( in April ).

Embedded VLIW products are available from several vendors, including the FR-V from Fujitsu, the BSP15 / 16 from Pixelworks, the ST231 from STMicroelectronics, the TriMedia from NXP, the CEVA-X DSP from CEVA, the Jazz DSP from Improv Systems, and Silicon Hive.

A few examples are the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Canada, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana, the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall, London, the Verbier Festival in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland, and the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the Japanese Alps near Matsumoto.

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.

Among other important festivals there are: Jazz Jamboree, Rawa Blues Festival and Wratislavia Cantans.

The two Jazz Age-style tunes written by Hamlisch are chronologically much closer to the film's time period than are the Joplin rags:

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.

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 shoes typically have a two-part rubberized sole ( also called split-sole ) to provide both flexibility and traction, and a low ( one inch or shorter ) heel.

* Stockholm Jazz Festival is one of Sweden's oldest festivals, the festival takes place at Skeppsholmen in July.

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.

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.

* In Epic MegaGames ' Jazz Jackrabbit 2, a signpost in one stage proclaims that Jazz's brother, Spaz Jackrabbit, ate the Dopefish.

* The Umbria Jazz Festival is one of the most important venues for Jazz in Europe and has been held annually since 1973, usually in July.

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.

In the late 1950s Beaulieu was the surprising location for one of Britain's first experiments in pop festival culture, with the annual Beaulieu Jazz Festival, which quickly expanded to become a significant event in the burgeoning jazz and youth pop music scene of the period.

* George McKay ( 2005 ) Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, chapter one ' New Orleans jazz, protest ( Aldermaston ) and carnival ( Beaulieu Festival 1956-61 )'.

Jazz critic Harvey Pekar has also pointed out that one of Django Reinhardt's recorded improvisations strays drastically from the chord changes of the established piece.

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.

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.

Down by three points to the Jazz, Michael Jordan led the Bulls to one final win.

The Jazz were one of the most unsuccessful teams in the league in their early years, and took 10 years before they made a playoff appearance ( in 1984 ).

The Jazz turned the transaction into a sign-and-trade one day later, receiving a trade exception worth around $ 13 million in return from Chicago.

During the 2011 draft, the Jazz had two lottery picks ( one acquired in the trade that sent Williams to the New Jersey Nets ), and used them on Enes Kanter and Alec Burks.

In the next round, the Lakers lost four games to one to the Utah Jazz.

Jazz is one of his main influences and until 1956 he planned to devote his career to it.

He continued working the city's piano bar circuit and earned the nickname " Ragtime Jimmy ," before he joined one of the first recognizable jazz bands in New York, the Original New Orleans Jazz Band.

In his autobiography, Duke Ellington declared, " Paul Whiteman was known as the King of Jazz, and no one as yet has come near carrying that title with more certainty and dignity.

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.

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

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

Jazz guitarists commonly use a wide variety of inversions when comping, rather than only using standard voicings.

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 ".

LaRocca decided to take the band to London, where they would once again enjoy being the only authentic New Orleans jazz band in the metropolis, and again present themselves as the Originators of Jazz because they were the first band to record the new genre of music dubbed jass or jazz.

# " The Glove " ( Hamlisch )-a Jazz Age style number ; only a short segment was used in the film

Meanwhile, Warner Bros. had released three more talkies, all profitable, if not at the level of The Jazz Singer: In March, Tenderloin appeared ; it was billed by Warners as the first feature in which characters spoke their parts, though only 15 of its 88 minutes had dialogue.

As of 2012, the Jazz are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in the state of Utah.

The Jazz were the only team in the NBA with two players on the 2008 U. S. Olympic squad.

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.

By air, Kingston is served by Norman Rogers Airport with Air Canada Jazz providing regular service to Toronto Pearson only.

Microsoft initially developed what was to become Windows NT on internally-designed i860-based workstations ( codenamed Dazzle ), only porting NT to the MIPS ( Microsoft Jazz ), Intel 386 and other processors later.

The Johnnie Johnson Blues & Jazz Festival is held annually in Fairmont West Virginia, only a few blocks from where Johnson was born.

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 ).

Despite a significant bias that only black musicians could play “ real ” jazz, white bands such as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( ODJB ) emerged and found great success, especially in their recordings.

The only recordings he is certainly on are three sides under his own name (" Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals ") and a dozen with Doc Cooke's Orchestra, most of which are wonderfully arranged and with Keppard on second cornet.

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.

African Fiesta, however, lasted only two years before disintegrating, and Tabu Ley formed Orchestre Afrisa International instead, but this new group was not able to rival OK Jazz in influence for very long.

Despite being only a moderately successful album with songs that mixed Rock, Jazz, and Blues, Los Tres nevertheless became an important album in the early nineties.

The only carrier operating at the airport was Air Canada affiliate Air Canada Jazz, operating flights between Toronto and Ottawa.

* 1966: Concert in Japan ' 66 ( Atlantic / Jazz Forever, Japan only )

Bondurant first appears as a secondary character in White Jazz with only superficial similarities to his character in American Tabloid.