He performed on Guru's 1993 jazz-rap album, "Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, " and his recordings were sampled on more than 100 hip-hop songs by such performers as Black Moon, Nas, Ludacris and A Tribe Called Quest.

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All things by turns and nothing long, Mr Bates delights in a welter of reference jazz licks intersected by rap, synthesizer, string quartet, surreal vocals the overall sense is that anything can and should happen.

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In the 1970s, musicians began mixing flamenco with jazz, rock, blues, rap and other genres.

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With 550 ticketed and 200 free shows a year, WCL hosts live music in just about every genre, including jazz, rock, folk and rap (Philly native Queena Marie stopped by in early January 2012).

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The presentation included a live jazz band performance and spoken word and rap performances by inmates.

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The televised presentations target pop, country, urban, rock, and rap categories, leaving the jazz, gospel, classical, Latin and other categories to the pre-show.

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She's collaborated with an impressively diverse and famous assortment of artists Beck, Rufus Wainwright, Keith Richards, Tom Waits and countless others and trafficked in genres ranging from folk to jazz to rock to an early form of rap.

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