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12 unusual facts about Jazz


Bookcity Co.

In the country, it is perhaps the main source for Jazz and classical music from publishers such as EMI, ECM, Harmonia Mundi and others.

Dance India Dance

The dancers are put through a battery of rounds which test their ability to pick up various dance styles (typically some of the more well-represented genres that will later be prominent in the competition phase, such as Hip-Hop, Bollywood Dance, Jazz, Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Contemporary).

Jazz of Birmingham

The busiest promoter of contemporary jazz in the city is the voluntary organisation Birmingham Jazz, which mounts dozens of concerts every year featuring local, national and international artists in venues such as the CBSO Centre, the mac arts centre, the Glee Club and Symphony Hall.

John William Boone

The John William Boone Heritage Foundation was founded to preserve the history of Blind Boone and to elaborate the important role Missouri played in the development of Ragtime and early Jazz music.

Lil Greenwood

Lil Greenwood (November 18, 1924 – July 19, 2011) was an American Jazz and R&B vocalist.

PBA-FM

Each night specialist programs broadcast a specific genre of music, ranging from Classical, World, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, Progressive Rock and Rhythm & Blues.

Racial policy of Nazi Germany

Prior to Hitler coming to power, black entertainers were popular in Germany, but the Nazis banned Jazz as ‘corrupt negro music’.

Robert Graeme Galbraith

His other great interests included cycling, where he was a member of a road-racing club, and Jazz music of which he remained a dedicated and lifelong fan.

Swing Unlimited

Swing Unlimited is a community based Big Band, and is unique in British Jazz in that it is totally self-funding, receiving no grant of any kind, making it a true community band that is being run by the community.

The Return of Mr. Bean

Jazz saxophonist Dave O'Higgins appears as the saxophone-playing busker Bean dances to.

The Transformers: Escalation

The Autobots rally to find his corpse, but the Machination prove more than ready for Jazz and Wheeljack.

WRCT

Genres including Alt-Country, Jazz, Hip hop, Metal, Experimental, Indie rock, Blues, International, Electronic, and even Musical Theater are among those commonly represented in rotation.They try to show off local music that people do not typically hear on mainstream stations.


Bernardo Padrón

After graduating from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music Performance program in 1986, Bernardo played tenor and alto sax in the Toronto Latin musical community, as well as recording with various local jazz projects (Don Valley Parkway, Mosaic) as a sideman.

Boogaloo Joe Jones

The nickname was meant to distinguish him from the other people with similar names in the music business, such as R&B singer Joe Jones, jazz drummers "Papa Jo" Jones and Philly Joe Jones, and the Joe Jones of the Fluxus movement.

Breakestra

The style in which the breakestra plays in the live setting & on record is much influenced by late 60s and early 70s funk & soul-jazz music and the respective samples that were used in late 80s/early 90s hip hop as The Live Mix, Part 1 and The Live Mix, Part 2 show.

Carlton Kitto

Carlton Kitto is a Bebop jazz guitarist from Kolkata, India.

Carmen McRae

McRae also recorded with some of the world's best jazz musicians in albums such as Take Five Live (1961) with Dave Brubeck, Two for the Road (1980) with George Shearing, and Heat Wave (1982) with Cal Tjader.

Christian Azzi

In February 1948, with encouragement from Hugues Panassié, the orchestra played at the first jazz festival in Nice, with immediate success.

Chuck Cissel

He was the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame from 2000–2009 and is now the Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

CKSJ-FM

Specialty programs airing on the station include The 70's with Charlie Tuna, and Cool Jazz on the Coast hosted by Bill Sharpe.

David Van De Pitte

He was an adjunct professor in the Jazz Studies program at Wayne State University from 1979 to 1983.

Deirdre Cartwright

As a solo artist she has played with the American guitarist Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, played throughout Europe, has seen the weekly jazz club she co-runs, 'Blow The Fuse', become one of the most popular in London, and has been a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3.

Eerik Siikasaari

Eerik Siikasaari (born in 1957) is a Finnish jazz bassist who is probably best known as a member of Trio Töykeät, a Finnish jazz trio.

Espen Rud

Rud joined the fri jazz band Svein Finnerud Trio (1967–74), was educated at the Norges Musikkhøgskole (1968), was percussionist within Pompel og Pilt (1969), was part of Min bul (1970) in trio with Terje Rypdal and Bjørnar Andresen, and contributed on the Karin Krog album Some other spring (1970), where also Dexter Gordon and Kenny Drew contributed.

Falling in Love with Jazz

Falling in Love with Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1991, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Bob Cranshaw, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Jack DeJohnette with Branford Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan, and Jeff Watts standing in on two tracks.

Franco Ambrosetti

Ambrosetti has worked with several American and European musicians in recordings and at jazz festivals and concerts, including Kenny Clarke, Dexter Gordon, Phil Woods, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Hal Galper and Romano Mussolini.

Gao Hong

She has also participated in cross-cultural musical collaborations, performing with jazz musicians and musicians from other cultures, including James Newton and Shubhendra Rao.

Gary Marker

Two other bands of his, the Jazz Folk and the New World Jazz Company (which also included John Locke, Randy California and Ed Cassidy before moving on to form Spirit), were never recorded.

Hammer Klavier Trio

The Hammer Klavier Trio (HKT) has been founded in 2002 and their music has been described as “Straight-Ahead Jazz, somewhere between Monk and The Bad Plus.

Herbert Hall

Herb Hall (1907–1996), American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist

Herbert Jones

Herbie Jones (1926–2001), American jazz trumpeter and arranger

Jazz hands

Probably the biggest proponent of jazz hands was the late Bob Fosse, who incorporated them in nearly all of his Broadway and film musical choreography.

Jazz Institute of Chicago

Among the founding members were trad pianist Art Hodes, Muhal Richard Abrams, who a few years earlier had also co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Harriett Choice, then music writer for the Chicago Tribune, Joe Segal, whose Jazz Showcase has kept the flame for bebop lit for 50 years, Bob Koester, owner of Delmark Records, Don DeMicheal, drummer and editor of Downbeat magazine, jazz promoter and supporter Penny Tyler.

Jazz Mafia

In 2007 the Jazz Mafia Horns went on a nationwide tour with 1980s new wave musician Thomas Dolby.

JazzMn Orchestra

In order to this, JazzMN performs at several music festivals each year including the McNally Smith Winter Jazz Blast located at the McNally Smith College of Music.

Joe Riposo

In addition, Riposo has been a conductor for many jazz ensembles with notable guest artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Marvin Stamm, Glenn Drewes, Darius Brubeck, Nick Brignola, and Bob Kindred.

Joy Eden Harrison

Harrison says that her lyrical complexity reflects her link to her great aunt, novelist Anzia Yezierska, while her musical gifts and connection to the jazz era come from her great uncle, Milton Ager, the composer of Happy Days Are Here Again.

Laura Macdonald

Her recordings include the eponymous Laura in 2001 featuring David Budway (piano), James Genus (bass) and Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums); and Awakenings in 2003 with the Laura Macdonald Sextet: Steve Hamilton (piano), Donny Macaslin (tenor saxophone and flute), Gildas Boclé (bass), Claus Stoetter (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Antonio Sanchez (drums).

Linx

David Linx (born 1965), Belgian jazz singer, composer, and songwriter

Mon légionnaire

French jazz singer Raquel Bitton performed the song as part of her Piaf tribute show "Piaf: Her Story, Her Songs".

Monk Montgomery

He is perhaps the first electric bassist of significance to jazz, introducing the Fender Precision Bass to the genre in 1951, although he was most famously seen playing the later Fender Jazz Bass, which became his signature instrument.

National Parks Conservation Association

Taking a strong preservationist position, Yard objected to such commercialization of the parks as the jazz bands and bear shows at Yosemite National Park.

Nyboder

Danish jazz musician Papa Bue and his Viking Jazz Band have both made tracks called Praise of Nyboder (1959) and Nyboder's Pride.

Ocho Kandelikas

The song has been recorded and performed by the Portland-based lounge orchestra Pink Martini, the multilingual rock group Hip Hop Hoodios, the London-based jazz flamenco group Los Desterrados, the female a cappella ensemble Vocolot, Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi ("the Pavarotti of modern Jewish cantorial music") and Yasmin Levy, an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) music.

Owuor Arunga

He was born in Kisumu in Kenya and moved to New York in the early 2000s, where he studied in The New School's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program.

Paul Hoeffler

Hoeffler is mostly known for his photographs of the American Jazz scene of the 50’s and 60’s and of Jazz icons such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Smith, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday.

Paul Specht

A number of noted jazz and popular musicians played in Specht's ensembles, including Hank D'Amico, Russ Morgan, Sylvester Ahola, Arthur Schutt, Charlie Spivak, Joe Tarto, Art Christmas, Chauncey Morehouse and Lou Calabrese (Lou Breese).

Richard G. Mitchell

Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Simple Complex

The Chicago Tribune rated Simple Complex as the number one Jazz CD of 2004.

Sonny White

Ellerton Oswald White (November 11, 1917, Panama City, Panama - April 28, 1971, New York City), better known as Sonny White, was a jazz pianist.

Stan Barker

In addition to teaching jazz, Barker has done recordings and gigs with such artists as Digby Fairweather, Al Grey, Buddy Tate, Al Wood, and Billy Butterfield.

Stars Like Fleas

Frequently compared to later Talk Talk and Robert Wyatt, their music blends avant-jazz and free improvisation with electronic textures and several overdubbed murmured vocal lines.

Tadd Dameron turnaround

Further examples of pieces including this turnaround are Miles Davis' "Half-Nelson" and John Carisi's "Israel".

The Georgia Melodians

The Georgia Melodians were an early jazz band that was active in the 1920s and recorded for Edison Records.

TV Action Jazz!

TV Action Jazz! is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe and his All Stars featuring their interpretations of theme music from private eye, legal and police drama television programs recorded in 1959 for the RCA Camden label.

TWL

The Tony Williams Lifetime, a jazz-rock fusion group led by jazz drummer Tony Williams

Unterbiberger Hofmusik

For his own further vocational education he attended a masterclass in 1992 which was held by the renowned American jazz trumpeter Claudio Roditi in Stuttgart.

Victor Ash

Vic Ash (born 1930), English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist

Virgil Mihaiu

Virgil Mihaiu (born June 28, 1951 in Cluj, Romania) is a Romanian writer, jazz critic, diplomat, jazz aesthetics professor, polyglot, and performer.

When I Had the Chance

"When I Had the Chance" is a song by American jazz saxophonist Boney James from his sixteenth studio album Contact (2011).