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independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide...

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...

and concert band and is used in classical music, military bands, klezmer, jazz, and other styles. The word clarinet may have entered the English language...

into jazz resulted in the creation of a genre that ranges from pure jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz riffs, jazz solos...

its conservative competitor Jazz Journal, and targeted younger readers at a time when Melody Maker had abandoned jazz coverage. In the late 1980s and 1990s...

the Jazz Foundation of America to help American jazz and blues musicians in need.[citation needed] He wrote many articles for The Wall Street Journal and...

The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established...

About Jazz Press: 10. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Cecil Taylor Trio (2009). "Best Performances 2009". All About Jazz Press:...

History of the Sousaphone". ITEA Journal. 42: 27–29. William, Pryor. "New Orleans Jazz and the Trad Jazz Movement". IAJRC Journal. 49: 61–65. Wikimedia Commons...

Sacred jazz is jazz composed and performed with religious intent. Jazz has always incorporated aspects of African American sacred music including spirituals...

Jazz Journal is a British jazz magazine established in 1946 by Sinclair Traill (1904–1981). It was first published in London under the title Pick Up, which...

for two weeks. It was also his fourth number-one album on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart. His 2011 holiday album, Christmas, was in first place on the...

Appropriation, Authenticity, and Opportunity in the Jazz Dance Teaching of 1920s New York". Dance Research Journal. 38 (1–2): 19–42. doi:10.1017/S0149767700007312...

Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late...

Coast Jazz Records. The session "embrace[d] West Coast cool" with "immaculately performed charts," according to reviewer Gordon Jack of Jazz Journal. An...

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 30s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions...

(January 25, 1929 – September 21, 2024) was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the...

1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade...

Japanese jazz (Japanese: 日本のジャズ, Nihon no jazu), also called Japazz, is jazz played by Japanese musicians or jazz connected to Japan or Japanese culture...

Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was...