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    documenting events of Jazz in the year 1985. 29 – The 12th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 29 – 31). 24 – 14th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany...
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  • The 1985–86 Utah Jazz season saw the Jazz draft Karl Malone. This marked the beginning of the Stockton and Malone era. Mark Eaton, NBA All-Defensive First...
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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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    Lady Blackbird (category American women jazz singers)
    (born 18 January 1985), known professionally as Lady Blackbird, is an American-born jazz and soul singer-songwriter, working primarily in the United Kingdom...
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  • 1985 in country music 1985 in heavy metal music 1985 in hip hop music 1985 in jazz January 1 – The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting...
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  • The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a...
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    1985 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1985. 1985 (MCMLXXXV)...
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  • Jazz was featured in the 1985 Find Your Fate Junior book called Vanishing Drive by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel. Jazz was featured in the 1985 Transformers...
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    The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established...
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    the sound as a DJ calling it "In the Soul Kitchen with DJ Maxi Jazz" on pirate radio station Reach FM London from 1985 to 1986. He transferred this sound...
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    The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader...
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  • Montreal Jazz Festival is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1985...
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    Milt Hinton (1910–2000) and George Duvivier (1920–1985), who are the two most recorded bassists in jazz history, their respective careers spanning many...
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    Philly Joe Jones (category American jazz drummers)
    Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. As a child, Jones appeared as a featured tap dancer on...
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    known as The Jazz Crusaders) were an American jazz/jazz fusion group performing from the 1960s to the 2010s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders from...
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    Festival international de Jazz de Montréal is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness...
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  • list of notable deaths in 1985. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:...
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    Jo Jones (category American jazz drummers)
    Samuel Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. A band leader and pioneer in jazz percussion, Jones anchored the Count Basie...
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    OK Jazz, later renamed TPOK Jazz (short for Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinois de Jazz), was a Congolese rumba band from the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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    Pat Metheny (category American jazz guitarists)
    1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work in various small-combo,...
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    Herbie Hancock (category 20th-century jazz composers)
    Poll: Best Jazz Pianist (1987, 1988); Keyboardist (1983, 1987) Playboy Music Poll: Best Jazz Group (1985), Best Jazz Album Rockit (1985), Best Jazz Keyboards...
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    In the 1980s in jazz, the jazz community shrank dramatically and split. A mainly older audience retained an interest in traditional and straight-ahead...
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  • and Karcer Jimmy Jazz, a 1982 movie starring Fabrice Luchini "Jimmy Jazz", a song by Kortatu from their 1985 album Kortatu Jimmy Jazz, a footwear and apparel...
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    Count Basie (category 20th-century jazz composers)
    1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago...
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  • The Angry Man of Jazz may refer to: Max Miller (jazz musician) (1911–1985), American jazz pianist and vibraphone player, so dubbed by Studs Terkel Charles...
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    copies of the original version of Jazz, while Microsoft sold 200,000 of Excel. In an extensive Macworld review in 1985, Gordon McComb wrote, "It is well...
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    Mike Stern (category American jazz guitarists)
    from 1981 to 1983 and again in 1985. He then began a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums. Stern was named Best Jazz Guitarist of 1993 by Guitar...
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  • The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Jerry Leider. The film stars Neil Diamond (in his...
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    Jazz is a trademarked brand of the Scifresh cultivar of domesticated apple. Scifresh is a cross between Royal Gala and Braeburn. It was developed in New...
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    Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early...
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