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Pages in category "Lists of musicians by birthday" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 365 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Alphonso Johnson (born 1951) Bill Laswell (born 1955) Marcus Miller (born 1959) Monk Montgomery (1921–1982) Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987) John Patitucci (born 1959) Steve Swallow (born 1940) Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born 1956)
First time. April 30, 2012. Related to. Jazz. International Jazz Day is an International Day declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2011 "to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe." [1] It is celebrated annually on April 30. [2]
March 2 – Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer) [ 24] March 6 – McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist [ 25] March 10 – Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID-19) [ 26] April 1 - Ellis Marsalis, Jr., 85, American jazz pianist and educator. April 15 - Lee Konitz, 92, American jazz saxophonist.
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) is a music festival held every April in Canada and the United States, in honor of jazz as an early American art form. JAM was created in 2001 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian 's National Museum of American History. [1] It became a national extension of the original Jazz Awareness Month created by ...
Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 30s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in ...
Jazz (word) 2024 in jazz. 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. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical ...
Skip Spence (April 18, 1946 –April 16, 1999), Canadian-born American singer-songwriter and musician of Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane, would have turned 78 this year. Walt Levinsky (April 18, 1929 –December 14, 1999), American alto saxophonist and clarinetist , would have turned 95 this year.