• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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 Jennings (born October 6, 2000) is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. Jennings is one...
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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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  • Look up Jazz, jazz, or jazzy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jazz is a style of music and its subgenres. Jazz may also refer to: Jazz (computer),...
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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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  • Brazilian jazz can refer to both a genre, largely influenced by bossa nova and samba, that exists in many nations and the jazz music of Brazil itself....
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961. From 1962 to 1971 and 1979 to 1991 the award title specified instrumental...
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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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  • Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music...
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  • Samba-jazz or jazz samba is an instrumental subgenre of samba that emerged in the bossa nova ambit in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil. The style...
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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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