From ragtime to modern fusion, jazz music has always relied on one staple instrument: the piano.
Jazz music teaches you about who you are by exploring the humanity of others.
Sonny Rollins. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Arts to Sonny Rollins for his contributions to American jazz music.
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Growing up in Atlanta I heard much more blues and bluegrass than jazz music, though I was most excited to learn to play jazz when I was growing up.
However, we may still be fairly young in this field, while jazz music has had about 100 years of life to achieve this level of knowledge about their art.
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Despite the on-site competition from Ramsay and the soon-to-be-opened Hakkasan (an outlet of the famed Chinese restaurant group due to open in early 2013), the hotel has successfully brought jazz music to the region.
Take 25-year-old Alejandro Rosso, with his training in classical and jazz music and his love of timeless musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, throw in 22-year-old Jonas, who played in punk bands and was influenced by Nirvana, and you wind up with a mix of multilingual rap, swanky lounge-lizard tempos, frisky hip-hop and playful, inane lyrics.
So I was like the first to give the knowledge that jazz came from Africa, that the music evolved into jazz, which then Nina Simone epitomized in that jazz festival.
Many people seem to think that jazz is moody music played with brass instruments.
No smooth jazz or elevator music is needed in the lobby, rest rooms or anywhere else.
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Blanchard was already a leading figure in jazz and film music: He had a recording deal and he wrote for television and film soundtracks.
Most off-putting and deadly was the show's "Jazzy" opener, choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti to some lame and lugubrious jazz-tinged music by Federico Bigonzetti, the choreographer's son, and grimly performed to a recording by Jazzy Dogs.
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With their colourful flowing robes, fusion of traditional African music and jazz and contagious beat, they even dedicated a song to the godfather of world music, Peter Gabriel.
Coleman has written music outside of the jazz realm, including string quartets, music for dance, woodwind quintets, and in the early 1970s, a symphony called Skies of America, composed with support from his Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
Despite a clearly electronic execution, an improvisational jazz ethos informs this music.
Jazz had become establishment music except for the brass band phenomenon.
And he revelled in that most demotic and subversive music, jazz.
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One finding: The "Sound Charge" shirts collected more energy with dance music than jazz or classical, says Mat Sears, a spokesman for Orange parent company Everything Everywhere.
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Other highlights included live music from jazz band Dynamic Jazz.
Lund, who also does vocals, has a background in hip hop, Jansen in house, and their influences range from the greats within their genre such as Daft Punk, to classical music and jazz.
School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.
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The project is called New Music 20x12 which covers a wide range of genres from contemporary classical, folk and opera in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bell ringing, beat boxing, jazz and brass band music in England and Wales.
Every summer the town hosts one of the highest profile musical events in Europe, the Ravello Festival, also known as the Wagner Festival, featuring two months of orchestral music, chamber music, jazz and especially opera, with open air venues above the Mediterranean.
His music is deeply rooted in folk, African jazz and the a capella "mbube" music that Ladysmith Black Mambazo made famous.
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