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2. Jazz (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 [ 2] and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. [ 3] Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history.

3. Chuck Mangione - Wikipedia

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   Charles Frank Mangione ( / ˌmændʒiˈoʊni / MAN-jee-OH-nee; born November 29, 1940) [ 1] is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer. He came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey 's band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap. He achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single ...

4. List of jazz musicians - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...

5. Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

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   Armstrong was the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of Time magazine on February 21, 1949. He and his All Stars were featured at the ninth Cavalcade of Jazz concert also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. held on June 7, 1953, along with Shorty Rogers , Roy Brown , Don Tosti and His Mexican Jazzmen, Earl ...

6. Sarah Vaughan - Wikipedia

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   Sarah Lois Vaughan (/ v ɔː n /, March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", [1] she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. [2]

7. Thelonious Monk - Wikipedia

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   1917 – 1933: Early life. Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious (or Thelious) and Barbara Monk. His sister, Marion, had been born two years earlier. His birth certificate spelled his first name as "Thelious" [ 1] and did not list his middle name, taken from his maternal ...

8. Quincy Jones - Wikipedia

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   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 Awards won out of 80 nominations, [ 2] and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor ...

9. Toots Thielemans - Wikipedia

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   Thielemans was born in Brussels on 29 April 1922. [5] His parents owned a café. [4] He began playing music at an early age, using a homemade accordion at age three. [6] During the German occupation of Belgium beginning in 1940, he became attracted to jazz, but was then playing on a full-size accordion or a harmonica, which he taught himself to play in his teens.