• 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Mingus mashed up bebop, swing and soul, all while leading an avant-garde excavation of the free-jazz latent in New Orleans group improvisation a sort of bluesy Charles-Ives-meets-King-Oliver approach.

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  • It's absolutely an all-star lineup of New Orleans jazz and blues performers.

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  • And he was productive: He first worked in the trumpet sections of big bands, until he stepped forward and led the small-group revolution, creating fast, intricate new music known as bebop and pioneering Afro-Cuban jazz.

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  • 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.

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  • Some credit the rise of jazz-studies programs in colleges and universities for creating a new breed of jazz musician.

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  • Having brought jazz into the mainstream, he then transformed it, with innovative new rhythms on albums like Time Out -- the first jazz album to ever sell more than a million copies and still one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.

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  • 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.

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  • Esperanza Spalding, the bass-playing jazz singer whose best new artist win upset Justin Bieber fans two years ago, was present to win two more Grammys in the pre-telecast.

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  • The Mingus Big Band rang in 2009 with a rousing and raucous 80-minute set before a sold-out crowd at the Jazz Standard in New York.

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  • Tourism officials said attendance at Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007 was near pre-storm levels.

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  • He was destined, he believed, to write a new poetry fit for forward-looking times: an age of streetcars, jazz and heroic engineering.

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  • 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.

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  • At 81, the amiable Mr. Strachwitz, whose family relocated to the U.S. West Coast in 1947, recalls falling first for early jazz when seeing the Louis Armstrong-Billie Holliday film "New Orleans" as a teenager, then hearing everything from hardcore hillbilly to "Harlem Matinee" and the Serbo-Croatian hour on Los Angeles-area radio.

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  • Josh Linkner is a New York Times best-selling author, the founder of ePrize, and a professional jazz guitarist.

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  • At a recent performance at a New York jazz club, Harrell showed up looking trim in a leather jacket and sunglasses--even though it was a hot, dark summer night.

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  • Diana Krall is the undisputed superstar of jazz-inflected singers in the last decade or so, and her new album on Verve, From This Moment On mostly standards done with big-band arrangements is a return to her usual form.

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  • Leaders need to do what jazz musicians do -- anticipate that when people are encouraged to try something new, the results will be unexpected and can include errors.

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  • At the same time, within the big markets, a range of new genres hip-hop, trip-hop, lounge, acid house, acid jazz, and many, many more are growing at the expense of the mainstream.

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  • When Orphan Medical, which was later bought by Jazz, filed its new drug application with the FDA, the street drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) was in the news as a date-rape potion and drug of abuse.

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  • Besides food and jazz, what sets New Orleans apart is its unmatched calendar of festivals virtually non-stop, and I just visited at the tail end of Jazz Fest, which is second only to Mardi Gars in scope, and growing.

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  • The scrumptious Cajun cuisine and sweet jazz of New Orleans may make that city seem the perfect place for a fresh start--but the Big Easy is right now the toughest city in the U.S. for finding employment, according to the online job aggregator Indeed.com.

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  • Jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding upset boy wonder Justin Bieber for Best New Artist (according to pre-ceremony Vegas odds, Spalding was the longest shot to win).

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  • Foye made 8 of 9 overall and the Jazz hit 10 of 17 as a team to set a new franchise mark with 449 3-pointers in a season.

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  • More than 3, 000 industry insiders, buyers and retailers will visit the old Terminal Warehouse building in Chelsea this week to see the latest from well-known brands like Repetto mixed with new lines from Guatemala (Guishem) and Korea (Johnny Hates Jazz).

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  • As clarinet player and scholar Michael White points out, New Orleans jazz arose out of turbulent times in the early decades of the twentieth century, and these post-Katrina years are turbulent times, too.

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  • David Romanelli, a New York-based yoga instructor, led a class this summer in Colorado that was accompanied, live, by the jazz-fusion musician Stanley Jordan.

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  • " Jazz on a Summer's Day " (New Yorker Video ): Bert Stern's remarkable evocation of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, plus a behind-the-scenes documentary of the celebrated still photographer at work on his only motion picture.

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