He didn't start in a music school or even a regular old jazz band.
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The presentation included a live jazz band performance and spoken word and rap performances by inmates.
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He later fronted the Acker Bilk Paramount Jazz Band while Acker was recovering from throat cancer.
The prince also heard and watched a performance by school pupils from Hillhead High School jazz band.
The heavy emphasis on reading is leavened with daily creative arts classes that include French and jazz band.
The orchestra was going with the conductor, and the jazz band was going with the rhythm section piano, bass and drums.
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Understanding the nature of these roles, as well as understanding your teammates is the key to a good jazz band.
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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.
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.
His mother performed with a jazz band, and she preferred to bring her young son with her, rather than leave him with a sitter.
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.
Other highlights included live music from jazz band Dynamic Jazz.
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.
One evening, I met up with some San Francisco colleagues and had drinks at the bar while a jazz band of six veteran musicians made harmony together once again.
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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Kopple and her camera crew trailed Allen and his Dixieland jazz band as they toured through Europe in 1996, playing to mostly adoring audiences that (it has to be said) seem pretty primed to be adoring regardless of what the music sounds like.
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Tickets for those performances are free, while entrance to other shows, such as a medley of Chinese a cappella groups on 14 February and local jazz fusion band SIU2 on 15 February can be bought via Hong Kong ticketing outlet Urbtix.
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The rest of the lineup is an eclectic mix of then and now featuring the new folksy heroes The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men, indie favorites Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective and a soul superjam featuring Jim James with John Oates and the Preservation Jazz Hall Band.
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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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.
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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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.
Today McDonogh 15 is more accustomed to happy hallways bursting with the colors of Mardi Gras and the strains of adolescents playing New Orleans jazz in the school 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.
Bernstein mixes well-known pop songs with a lost style of jazz that predates the big band era.
Mingus would tear his compositions apart and reassemble them, much as he did his band, the Jazz Workshop.
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That rings true in an ensemble like the New Jazz Composers Octet, a band whose sum is greater than any individual.
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