Fascinated by the '20s and '30s, she traveled at age 16 to Williams College in Massachusetts to visit the archives of jazz-age band leader Paul Whiteman.
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In another emplacement across the entrance to the bay, there is a cartoon of a jazz band - sadly, rather hidden by modern-day graffiti.
For "Nice Work, " she and her creative team plunged into 1920s music, listening to tunes by big-band jazz innovator Fletcher Henderson and greats like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
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Following Woody Allen on a 1996 concert tour through Europe with his New Orleans-style jazz band, the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple touchingly reveals the inextricable unity of the man and his movie persona and suggests the psychic conflicts at the heart of his great films.
ListenToUs is a haven for people interested in offbeat music, ranging from Pink Freud (a Polish jazz band) to little-known psychedelic bands of the 1970s.
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But the mood inside the cordon remained mostly good-humored with a jazz band, drummers and street theatre groups keeping the crowds entertained throughout the afternoon.
Now to New Orleans, a kind of place where a jazz band plays at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new condominium and apartment project.
Eventually he took his jazz-funk sound to the influential George Clinton band.
These are musicians who "contributed to the architecture of rock 'n' roll, " Padnos says, by transforming the traditional, bass-heavy New Orleans jazz of the marching band and whorehouse piano into something entirely new.
Like many others in Finnish jazz, the band uses the music as a jumping-off point into experimentation that can range from the raucous to the moodily introspective.
Afterward, the finalists embraced like the old friends that they are, having met via organized jazz programs: Mr. Stranahan and Mr. Brown met through the Brubeck Institute, and Mr. Ross at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington high-school band competition.
The music died when the first results came into Romney HQ in Boston - not metaphorically, but literally, as the jazz band that had been serenading Republicans stopped playing.
Bernstein mixes well-known pop songs with a lost style of jazz that predates the big band era.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.
Rather than using a live band, her brother DJ Hektik plays mixes of hip-hop and jazz for their choreographed performances.
When it comes to leadership, if the 20th-century corporation was like a Sousa marching band, the new 21st-century organization needs to be more like Jazz.
It's like walking into a scene from Goodfellas - the crowd seated at candlelit tables, suited-up waiting staff distributing Old Fashioneds, the band on stage playing whipsmart swing and jazz.
In fact, in 1998, they formed a band called Los Hombres Calientes to play jazz that reflected possibly the first blast of Afro-Latino culture in this country: a mix of African rhythms, Caribbean instrumentation and New Orleans funk.
Among the McBride concepts: "Jazz Meets Sports, " a program scheduled for next March that will feature his band, plus conversations with former Yankee and Grammy-nominated guitarist Bernie Williams plus NBA legend and jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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