• Jazz Africa is a live album by keyboardist Herbie Hancock and Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso. The recording took place in Los Angeles, California's...
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  • African jazz may refer to: Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, a Congolese band often referred to as "African Jazz" A style of music also known as Ethio-jazz...
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  • 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...
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    South Africa has a notable jazz scene. The jazz scene in South Africa grew much as it did in the United States. Through performances in nightclubs, dances...
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  • The African Jazz Pioneers is a South African group that espouses the music of the 1950s, fusing big band jazz with township marabi sounds. Band leader...
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  • in 1960, when he joined musicians from African Jazz, including Tabu Ley Rochereau, to perform as "Jazz African" while the band's leader Joseph Kabasele...
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  • Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across...
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    diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such...
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  • African Jazz Mokili Mobimba (often referred to as Africa Mokili Mobimba or Afrika Mokili Mobimba) was a popular song written in the Congolese rumba style...
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    jazz (also known as club jazz, psychedelic jazz, or groove jazz) is a music genre that combines elements of funk, soul, and hip hop, as well as jazz and...
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    Africa the Honda Fit five-door hatchback automobile is sold as the Jazz 2002–2009 — Canadian-market name used on the Honda CHF50 scooter Honda Jazz (1982–1986)...
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  • Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined...
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    United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in...
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    Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, often simply referred to as African Jazz, was a popular and extremely influential Congolese rumba band from the modern-day...
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  • Cape jazz is a genre of jazz that is performed in the very southern part of Africa, the name being a reference to Cape Town, South Africa. Some writers...
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    world, including other parts of the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. Jazz required a method of playing percussion different from traditional European...
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    Honda Fit (redirect from Jazz hybrid)
    almost 5 million by mid-2013. Honda uses the "Jazz" nameplate in Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia and India;...
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  • the African Union Africanfuturism African art African jazz (disambiguation) African cuisine African culture African languages African music African Union...
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  • Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the...
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    Herbie Hancock (category African-American jazz composers)
    Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald...
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  • Africa/Brass is a studio album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released on September 1, 1961 through Impulse! Records. Coltrane's...
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    Abdullah Ibrahim (category South African jazz pianists)
    Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and Ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is...
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  • artistic director and co-producer of Jazz) and critics Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch. Music critic and African-American historian Gerald Early was a...
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    Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted...
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    influential jazz musicians of the late 20th century." Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to a mother of Choctaw descent and an African-American...
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  • 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...
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    Darius Brubeck (category American male jazz musicians)
    co-authored a memoir of their time in South Africa between 1983 and 2006 titled Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road, published...
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    Kora Jazz Trio is a three piece African musical group, founded in 2002 by Djeli Moussa Diawara, Guinean Korafola, with Abdoulaye Diabate and Moussa Sissokho...
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    Hugh Masekela (category South African jazz trumpeters)
    2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was...
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    nightclubs there, while the other group toured in Africa, Europe and North America. The musicians who started OK Jazz included Vicky Longomba, Jean Serge Essous...
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