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Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival in Kansas City [citation needed] Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia [72] Nebraska. Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival in Omaha. Nevada. Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz Festival in Las Vegas [73] Reno Jazz Festival in Reno [citation needed] New Jersey.
Drums, percussion. Years active. 1954–2010. Labels. ECM, Soul Note, JMT, Winter & Winter. Stephen Paul Motian [1] [2] (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) [3] [4] was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. He played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties.
David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City 's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan 's Upper West Side. The 2,200-seat auditorium opened in 1962, and is the home of the New York Philharmonic . The facility, designed by Max Abramovitz, was originally named Philharmonic Hall and was renamed Avery Fisher Hall in ...
Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz. It mixes Afro-Cuban clave -based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban music has deep roots in African ritual and rhythm. [1] The genre emerged in the early 1940s with the Cuban musicians Mario Bauzá and Frank Grillo "Machito" in the band Machito and his Afro ...
The New York metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 20.1 million residents, or slightly over 6% of the nation's total population, as of 2020. [8] The combined statistical area includes 23.6 million residents as of 2020. [16] [17] It is one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world.
Mercy University (Mercy NY), previously known as Mercy College, is a private research university with its main campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and additional locations in Manhattan and the Bronx. It is a federally designated minority-serving institution and the largest private Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in the state of New York.
Location (s) Cork, Ireland. Years active. 1978–present (46 years) Website. GuinnessJazzFestival.com. The Cork Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cork City, Ireland, in late October. [1] The first festival began on Friday 27 October 1978, and has been held every year (except in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). [2] [3]
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.