Jazz

Jazz is a musical form that originated in the United States in the early 1900s (though its roots extend to West Africa and its reach encircles the globe). It's easily identifiable: blue notes, swing, improvisation and complexity make jazz one of the most distinctive of musical styles, and its longstanding love affair with fashion establishes jazz as the origin of cool.

Though jazz hit its prime in the 20th century, its mastery of mutation makes for a strong influence in all styles of music, and an active musical community. New Orleans remains one of the world's top jazz destinations, and Brazil's classic jazz still highly popular even after decades. There are also great great jazz blogs out there. JazzVideoGuy is dedicated to documenting jazz's history and influence, even as new jazz videos surface every day.

And let's not forget the Utah Jazz, representing jazz's influence all the way to the NBA.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Jazz”

• RICK BRAUN - Body And Soul

  
  mientras otros duermen.... — Authority: 137
  RICK BRAUN - Body And Soul Genre: Smooth Jazz Quality: 320 Kbp/s Tracks. 01.-Notorious 02.- Missing In Venice 03.- Slick 04.- Chelsea 05.- Long Tall Judy 06.- Dark Eyes 07.- Body And Soul 08.- Angel 09.- Love Will Find A Way 10.- Coolsville 11.- Hymn For Her Link.
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• jazz mix

  
  Music, Art & Posters — Authority: 104
  Impress your family this holiday season and fool them into thinking you are an intellectual! Tracklist :: Tin Tin Deo – Junior Mance | Them Changes – Ramsey Lewis | Freestylin’ – Greyboy | When I Grow Too Old To Dream – Jimmy McGriff  | Don’t Even Kick It Around ...
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• Quantic "Streams Of New Music Flow From Old Sources"

  
  Extra Music new — Authority: 147
  Quantic "Streams Of New Music Flow From Old Sources" mix cd & t-shirt Will Holland aka Quantic is one the most prolific and innovative working producers today. In 2007 Quantic moved to Cali, Colombia where he has been digging for lost unknown treasures of cumbia, salsa and latin funk. This t-shirt collaboration ...
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• Bill Overton Photos

  
  thepointandshootist.com — Authority: 116
  This time we feature full body action photos of Bill Overton on tenor sax! He was with Tom Muellner’s Dracula Quartet for WDCB’s Halloween Bash at Jazz Showcase !  It is known that Bill ALSO plays flute and we look forward to that!  Experience the REAL thrill !  Get out and see LIVE MUSIC whenever and ...
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• Blazers/Jazz Pre-Thoughts

  
  Rip City Project | A Portland Trailblazers blog — Authority: 493
  What’s the best recipe for a team after a humbling — some might say humiliating — home loss to a sub-.500 team? Definitely not a trip to Salt Lake City, that’s for sure. Slight history lesson here. The Blazers have dropped 14 of their last 16 games in Salt Lake City. That dates all the [...]
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• An Alexis Cole Family Christmas

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 132
  Christmas is a time for family, so it is appropriate jazz vocalist Alexis Cole’s new Christmas CD is definitely a family affair. Not only does it feature Cole’s pianist-composer father Mark Finkin, it was directly inspired by his much anticipated college graduation recital. Taking its title from her father’s ...
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• Gig review: Haines Puddick Jazz Orchestra

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 134
  Symphony Hall Foyer, Birmingham UK 27-11-09 Hey, remember Thad Jones Mel Lewis Big Band? A horn player and a drummer leading a group that became an institution and sparring ring for many a fine young jazz player? Well, fast forward a good few decades and Birmingham could have its own version. Ed Puddick is a ...
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• StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Kurt Elling sampler

  
  St. Louis Jazz Notes — Authority: 128
  This week, our video lens is trained on singer Kurt Elling , who will be in town starting Wednesday, December 2 through Saturday, December 5 to perform at Jazz at the Bistro . Ellings sets during this trip to St. Louis will focus on material from Dedicated to You , his recent CD revisiting material from the ...
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• Meshell Ndegeocello — Devil’s Halo

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 542
  Mercer Street Records I have always admired the artist who is not afraid to spotlight the daily catharsis we call life, and put it into an artistic pill that the masses will not sicken themselves on if left to process with their own devices. Some examples of this type of artist are Marvin Gaye, James Baldwin, and ...
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• Terje Rypdal: Odyssey

  
  ROBERT WYATT AND STUFF — Authority: 133
  Today´s classic is Terje Rypdal´s "Odyssey" (ECM), a double LP from 1975. The band is Terje Rypdal (guitar, soprano saxophone and string ensemble (!)), Torbjørn Sunde (trombone), Brynjulf Blix (organ), Sveinung Hovensjø (bass) and Svein Christiansen (drums). Manfred Eicher and Jan Erik Kongshaug is involved, no ...
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• --=[ Mauri Sanchis ]=--

  
  Blaks Lair — Authority: 136
  Mauri Sanchis - Groove Words [2009] “…ENORMOUS BAND of Mauri Sanchis to celebrate his total groove militancy…” “Mauri Sanchis shocked everybody with his new album, Groove Words, on which he has enrolled in the most powerful armada with origins of funk and soul with aggressiveness and no doubts" ...
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• Nat King Cole - The Christmas Album (1997)

  
  Music Bookmarker — Authority: 161
  Track List: 01.The Christmas song (3:16) 02.Deck The halls (1:09) 03.Frosty The Snowman (2:20) 04.I Saw Three Ships (1:29) 05.Buone Natale (1:39) 06.Adeste Fideles (2:29) 07.O’Little Town of bethlehem (2:20) 08.The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (2:34) 09.O’Tannenbaum (3:03) 10.The First Noel (1:59) 11.The ...
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• Civica Jazz Band - Italian Jazz Graffiti (2009)

  
  Music Bookmarker — Authority: 161
  Tracklist: 01. Civica Jazz Band - Mr Dodo (9:32) 02. Civica Jazz Band - Inventore (6:33) 03. Civica Jazz Band - Where’s Blues (5:08) 04. Civica Jazz Band - I love you Porgy (6:58) 05. Civica Jazz Band - Mdina (5:17) 06. Civica Jazz Band - Humanity (6:32) 07. Civica Jazz Band - Art’s song (5:14) 08. Civica Jazz ...
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• New York Times: Hale Smith, Who Broke Borders of Classical and Jazz, Is Dead at 84

  
  AfriClassical — Authority: 135
  [“Hale Smith in about 1990” (Photo by Joseph Szabo, The New York Times)] NYTimes.com By William Grimes Published: November 27, 2009 “ Hale Smith , a classical composer who also worked as a performer and arranger with jazz greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Chico Hamilton, died Tuesday at his home in Freeport, ...
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• My skin is ………….

  
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  Four women – Nina SimoneVia Poefrika
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• --=[ Rick Braun 4 ]=--

  
  Blaks Lair — Authority: 136
  Rick Braun - Yours Truly (2005) Yours Truly is a nicely varied, mix of 9 tracks that are very well written songs by this clearly outstanding artist. Most of the songs display a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Clearly drawing from what I can only imagine are his own real life ...
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• Jazz Standards - 1 (by Xor)

  
  REGLAME ESTA NOCHE — Authority: 141
  Thanks, Xor! Comienzo un nuevo proyecto, el de los estándares de Jazz, el Gran Libro Norteamericano de la Canción —Great American Songbook (GAS). Esta serie estará basada en los, hasta ahora, mil temas —espero tenerlos todos— que figuran en el Gran Libro. La planificación es la siguiente: Iré publicando ...
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• Flamenco Guitarist Jesse Cook Celebrating A Birthday With Another Smooth Jazz Hit

  
  Smooth News — Authority: 139
  Flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook will be marking his 45th birthday today (November 28th) with another Smooth Jazz Top 20 single, “Bogota By Bus” from his latest and eighth release, The Rumba Foundation .  It follows his smash hit “Café Mocha” from his Frontiers CD. Cook, who was born in Paris to ...
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• A year’s gigging with LFW

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  FiddleFolk, based a the Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, has put on a number of concerts this year in different locations inside and outside the National Park area of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.Seven of these concerts have been part of their ‘Hands Across the Seas’ concert series, which have brought a flavour of ...
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