The Modern Jazz Quartet continued to perform all over the world for sold-out crowds until the late nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

One reason the Smithsonian picked April to honor jazz is because many great jazz artists were born this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

For example, in South Africa, Cape Town's jazz festival included performances by more than forty international and African jazz performers.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

He says whatever you call it, jazz has played a huge role around the world in opening up musical creativity.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

When repairs are not possible, Pat Metheny returns to what he is famous for --- simply great jazz guitar.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

She has performed with some of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock since she was very young.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Just three years later, she was performing with famous jazz and blues musicians including Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson and Joe Williams.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Of all these artists, Jackson Pollock was the only one who grew up during the age of jazz music.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He discovered jazz by listening to the recordings of such jazz greats as Count Basie and Lester Young.

VOA: special.2010.11.07

The music is performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, of which Ted Nash is a member.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He was eighty years old. His death officially marked the end of a historic period in modern jazz.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He also wanted the music to express the kind of jazz music that Pollock listened to and enjoyed.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09