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There are three bands with the name Jazz. 1. JAZZ is a band from Spokane, WA consisting of four losers trying to do something important with their lives. Ben Smith - Drums Alex Paul - Bass Adam Price - Guitar, vocals Ramsey Troxel - Guitar, Vocals 2. Garage punk from Edmonton, Alberta by Weird Canada overlord Aaron Levin. Backed by pals from Gobble Gobble, Dropping Out and the Wicked Awesomes!, Levin channels his hyperbolic written enthusiasm into quadro-spazzed blink-and-you’ll-miss-‘em ragers. Fall might be creeping into winter, but international jangle-punk superhits like “Your Stuff”, “Cowboy” and especially the stupidly catchy “Summer”...

The Modern Jazz Quartet was formed in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano, musical director), Percy Heath (bass), and Kenny Clarke (drums). Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955. Various of the members had played together backing other artists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Brown, and in Jackson's own Quartet. Through their long existence, they have worked with Classical musicians and are known for incorporating elements of Classical music into jazz, being one of the most notable examples of the style called Third Stream. The group disbanded in 1974 and reformed in 1981 on a part-time basis, with...

Martin Iveson moved from the North-East of England to the Midlands city of Derby in 1991 to take a position as in-house musician for the then fledgling video games company that went on to produce the Tomb Raider series of games. Not content with sound tracking one of the world’s biggest computer games, Martin’s passion for music saw him set up his own studio and record label, from which he could give a free rein to his personal music aspirations. Martin became Atjazz and Mantis Recordings’ first release was his Story EP. The positive reactions to Story inspired his debut...

目前最受到國際注目的日本Nu-Jazz樂團，由年輕的野崎良太(1976)所領軍。 早期在日本等地定期club演出，之後發表的一些單曲作品，收錄於一些重要的Nu-Jazz選集中，如等等，立即受到國際矚目，開始受邀幫英國jazzy Drum&Bass大團London Elektricity與Modaji等人製作Remix。 2001年英國Counterpoint廠牌重新集結了Jazztronik歷年作品，發行了名為 的專輯，被譽為日本Nu-Jazz重要的代表作品。(Issa) .

Modern Jazz was an electro-based live performance group assembled and co-ordinated by Ash Wednesday. Not a conventional group by any means, Modern Jazz was carefully designed to constantly evolve and change form, to include various configurations of numerous and diverse select musicians and artists. It was to exist, therefore, as a vehicle for creative input from a varied extent of sources. This input was often directed towards the idea of mating computer generated sound and vision to human spontanaiety (perhaps stange bedfellows to the uninitiated). When viewed from this angle, the name 'Modern Jazz', however ironic, was specifically descriptive. .