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city has become a regional center for Western classical music and jazz. Early Baltimore was home to popular opera and musical theatre, and an important...

journalist and jazz promoter Frank Zappa, rock musician Baltimore has eleven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International. Baltimore's own Sister...

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...

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier...

The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after etymologies in modern American English. Interest in the word – named the Word of the Twentieth...

in Baltimore) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards. Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub...

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz...

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

jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type...

Despite his parents' and teachers' disapproval of jazz, he began performing in nightclubs in Baltimore. His mentors included drummer Chick Webb and pianist...

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo...

Sandtown-Winchester is a neighborhood in West Baltimore, Maryland. Known locally as Sandtown, the community's name was derived from the trails of sand...

Sphinx Club may refer to: Sphinx Club (Baltimore), jazz club in Baltimore, USA Sphinx Club (New York), former gentlemen's club in New York City, USA Sphinx...

Baltimore: 2  Keystone Korner, Baltimore: 2  Sportsmen's Lounge, Baltimore Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton The Lilypad, Cambridge: 2  Ryles Jazz Club...

1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer and band leader. Webb was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to William H. and Marie Webb...

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions...

the Baltimore Sun David T. Abercrombie (1867–1931), born in and raised in Baltimore, founder of Abercrombie & Fitch Don Abney (1923–2000), jazz pianist...

is a list of notable jazz guitar players, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western swing, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. For an article...

Holiday. In Baltimore he attended a boys' school with the banjo player Elmer Snowden. Both of them played banjo with various Baltimore jazz bands, including...

the Cab Calloway Jazz Institute and Museum at Coppin State University. She was also the chairman of Baltimore's Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural...