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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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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Nu jazz (also spelt nü jazz or known as jazztronica, or future jazz) is a genre of jazz and electronic music. The music blends jazz elements with other...
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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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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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The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently...
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The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions...
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Look up all that jazz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The phrase and all that jazz means "and other such things", "and all that sort of thing". It...
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Jazz Standard was a jazz club located at 116 East 27th Street in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It frequently hosted well-known...
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Jazz FM may refer to: Jazz FM (Bulgaria), a radio station in Bulgaria that started in 2001 Jazz FM (UK), a digital jazz radio station in the United Kingdom...
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Jazz Jennings (born October 6, 2000) is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. Jennings is one...
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The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance has been awarded since 1959. Before 1979 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented...
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Cap'n Jazz (sometimes stylised as caP'n Jazz) is an American emo band from Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Brothers Tim Kinsella and Mike Kinsella formed the...
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Jazz Jackrabbit is a series of platform games featuring the eponymous character, Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare who fights with his nemesis...
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Jazz Hall of Fame may refer to: Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, an organization based in Birmingham, Alabama Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, an organization based...
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Fraser (14 June 1957 – 23 December 2022), better known by his stage name Maxi Jazz, was a British musician, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ. He was the lead...
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New Orleans Jazz may refer to: Dixieland, a style of jazz music (New Orleans Jazz) Music of New Orleans § Jazz New Orleans Jazz (NBA team), professional...
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New Jazz may refer to: Nu jazz, a subgenre of jazz music. Prestige Records, initially known as New Jazz. Later used for the name of a Prestige subsidiary...
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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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Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly...
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Contemporary jazz may refer to: Smooth jazz, a musical genre that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy-listening pop Jazz fusion, a musical genre...
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Jazz is a trademarked design that is featured on disposable cups. The design was introduced in 1992, and is considered an icon of 1990s culture. Jazz...
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subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
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Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed...
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Jazz Aviation LP, commonly shortened to Jazz, is a Canadian regional airline based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, in Enfield, Halifax, Nova...
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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length...
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Jazz hands in performance dance is the extension of a performer's hands with palms toward the audience and fingers splayed. This position is also referred...
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Big band (redirect from Jazz orchestra)
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones...
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Vocal jazz or jazz singing is a genre within jazz music where the voice is used as an instrument. Vocal jazz began in the early twentieth century. Jazz music...
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Daisy Ridley (redirect from Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley)
Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley (born 10 April 1992) is an English actress. She rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The...
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