• White Jazz is a 1992 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the fourth in his L.A. Quartet, preceded by The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A...
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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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  • 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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  • The Black Dahlia (1988) The Big Nowhere (1990) L.A. Confidential (1992) White Jazz Elmore Leonard wrote that "reading The Black Dahlia aloud would shatter...
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    jump blues and jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster subculture adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including...
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    broadcasts, and in dance halls. In the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured white jazz musicians including Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang (both are seen and heard...
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    Leonard White III (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer who was a member of the band Return to Forever led by Chick Corea in the...
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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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    album rose to No. 10 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. White went on to produce the debut album of the jazz group Urban Knights released in 1995 by...
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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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    Jasrado Prince Hermis Arrington "Jazz" Chisholm Jr. (born February 1, 1998) is a Bahamian professional baseball infielder and center fielder for the New...
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    The white Jazz VTi-S in the middle is a December 2003 model, while the left silver Jazz is a 2004 VTi with optional bodykit, the right silver Jazz is a...
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    Michael White (born November 29, 1954, in New Orleans) is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Jazz critic Scott...
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    black churches, to many white jazz fans it was novel. As she was the most prominent — and sometimes the only gospel singer many white listeners knew — she...
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    peterwhite.com. "Peter White: Top Jazz Albums". Billboard. "Peter White: Top Contemporary Jazz Albums". Billboard. "Peter White: Smooth Jazz Songs". Billboard...
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    The Fender Jazz Bass (often shortened to "J-Bass") is the second model of electric bass created by Leo Fender. It is distinct from the Precision Bass in...
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    cool jazz, which favoured long, linear melodic lines. It emerged in New York City, as a result of the mixture of the styles of predominantly white jazz musicians...
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  • Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans...
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  • Jazz is a fictional robot character from the Transformers franchise. He is usually portrayed as a music-loving Autobot who speaks Black Vernacular English...
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  • Carla Ruth White (September 15, 1951 – May 9, 2007) was an American jazz vocalist. White was born in Oakland, California, and raised in New York City...
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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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    White, Don Blackman, Monk Higgins, Wilbur Bascomb, the Blackbyrds, Donald Byrd and Les DeMerle and Michael Henderson released jazz funk albums. Jazz funk...
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  • interspersed with scenes of musicians and intellectuals, both black and white, conversing at a jazz club. It has been credited as being an early example of the Black...
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  • Swing music (redirect from Swing jazz)
    Jean Goldkette's Victor Recording Orchestra featured many of the top white jazz musicians of the day including Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Frank Trumbauer...
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    Return to Forever was an American jazz fusion band that was founded by pianist Chick Corea in 1972. The band has had many members, with the only consistent...
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  • Orchestra becomes the first African-American jazz ensemble to record. In Chicago, a group of young white students listen to recordings of the New Orleans...
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  • Parker and Miles Davis. Since a large proportion of Jazz is devoted to the swing era, two white bandleaders, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, are also given...
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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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  • possible within jazz." He goes on to draw a distinction between what he identifies as Beiderbecke's "white jazz" and Armstrong's jazz, which he sees as...
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    fox-trot. At the time this music was simply called jazz, although today people refer to it as "white jazz" or big band. Marabi evolved in South Africa in...
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