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5 days ago · Aaron Miller, the Director of Jazz Studies at BYU-Idaho, talks about the unique individuality in the music and his experience in both teaching jazz and performing it in his group The Kindness.
4 days ago · Because of him, radical departures from jazz norms has been a viable choice — a choice, to a large extent — that has been yoked directly to his investment in spirituality. Coltrane’s integrity — as man and musician — created the space for the durability of his legacy.
4 days ago · Each year, the Five Points Jazz Festival attracts tens of thousands of people to a celebration of music, culture and freedom. Why are streets in downtown Denver crooked? History can explain.
2 days ago · Jazz deeply influenced artists such as Romare Bearden and Jackson Pollock. Many filmmakers, both in the United States and Europe—from the 1930s through the 1960s—used jazz in either nightclub scenes, as source music, or as part of the musical score in films and animated features.
5 days ago · The Jazz Age in Central Harlem took place alongside the flowering of visual arts, poetry, and prose sparked by the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Some name this era one of the most ...
3 days ago · Jazz reportedly originated among the musicians who played in the bars and brothels of the infamous Storyville district of New Orleans. Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have invented jazz there in 1902, but it is doubtful that any one person holds that honor.
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4 days ago · A jazz classicist since his heady and historic days founding The World Saxophone Quartet, David Murray takes to a studio just outside Zurich with a rhythm section of the next generation and emerges triumphant with the standout Francesca.
