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The Jazz at the Lake: Lake George Jazz Weekend was started in 1984 in upstate New York by artistic director and host Paul Pines, "poet of jazz" [1] and founder of The Tin Palace jazz nightclub, and program director John Strong. Presented by the Lake George Arts Project, this free festival weekend of contemporary jazz, featuring nationally ...
Larry H. Miller. / 40.7772000°N 111.858000°W / 40.7772000; -111.858000. Larry H. Miller (April 26, 1944 – February 20, 2009) was an American businessman. He owned the National Basketball Association 's (NBA) Utah Jazz and the Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr.(born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.[1] His career spans over 70 years, with 28 Grammy Awardswon out of 80 nominations,[2]and a Grammy Legend Awardin 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before ...
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 roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival.
The Jazz fought back and won Game 5 on the road, 83–81, to trail 3–2 in the series, with Game 6 (and a Game 7 if needed) in Salt Lake City. The Jazz held a lead in most of Game 6, but the Bulls rallied, and in the last seconds of the game, Michael Jordan stole the ball from Malone on the final Jazz possession and then made a jump shot to ...
Dave Brubeck. Attilio Joseph " Teo " Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) [1] was an American jazz record producer, saxophonist, and composer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years. Macero produced Miles Davis ' Bitches Brew and Dave Brubeck 's Time Out, two of the best-selling and most influential jazz albums of all ...
Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) [1] is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. [2] During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis. [1] In 1977, he founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David ...