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59 relations: Al Jarreau, American University, Angela Davis, Anita Baker, Apollo Theater, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carnegie Hall, Christian Scott, Clark Terry, Columbia Records, Concord Records, Cool jazz, Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves, Duke Ellington, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Eubie Blake, Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra, George Benson, Grammy Award, Herbie Hancock, Hip hop, Hollywood Bowl, If I Had You (1928 song), Jazz, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Maya Angelou, Monterey Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, New York City, Nightclub act, Nikki Giovanni, Nina Simone, North Carolina, North Carolina Central University, Philip Freelon, Pierce Freelon, Ramsey Lewis, Ray Charles, Simmons College, Soul Train Music Awards, ..., Stevie Wonder, Terence Blanchard, The Baltimore Sun, The Visit (2000 film), Thelonious Monk, Traditional pop music, Vocal jazz, What Women Want, 2000 in film. Expand index (9 more) »
Al Jarreau
Alwin Lopez "Al" Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician.
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American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private United Methodist-affiliated research university in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.
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Anita Baker
Anita Denise Baker (born January 26, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (formerly Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (formerly Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, pp.528-29 is a music hall which is a noted venue for African-American performers.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.
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Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
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Billy Eckstine
William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American jazz and pop singer, and a bandleader of the swing era.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
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Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.
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Christian Scott
Christian Scott (born March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana), also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, is an American jazz trumpeter, composer and producer.
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Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Concord Records
Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord Music and based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Cool jazz
Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.
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Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals.
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Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves (Detroit, October 23, 1956) is a GRAMMY-winning jazz singer.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.
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Duke University Hospital
Duke University Medical Center (commonly referred to as Duke University Hospital) is a 938-acute care bed academic tertiary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina.
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Durham, North Carolina
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (born November 14, 1934) is an American jazz pianist.
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887February 12, 1983), known as Eubie Blake, was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
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Fly Me to the Moon
"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.
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Hip hop
Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.
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Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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If I Had You (1928 song)
"If I Had You" is a 1928 song by "Irving King" (Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly) with Ted Shapiro.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician.
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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Monterey Jazz Festival
The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF), in Monterey, California, is one of the world's longest consecutively running jazz festivals.
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Montreux Jazz Festival
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.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nightclub act
A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a nightclub act.
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Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Central University (NCCU), also known as simply Central, is a public historically black university in the University of North Carolina system, located in Durham, North Carolina, offering programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, professional and doctoral levels.
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Philip Freelon
Philip Freelon (born March 26, 1952), a native of Philadelphia, United States is an African American architect.
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Pierce Freelon
Pierce Freelon is a professor, musician and social entrepreneur.
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Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.
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Simmons College
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Soul Train Music Awards
The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication, and honors the best in Black music and entertainment.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and music educator.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.
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The Visit (2000 film)
The Visit is a 2000 American film.
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Traditional pop music
Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.
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Vocal jazz
Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.
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What Women Want
What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.
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2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnenna_Freelon
