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The 98 pages that link to Jazz, each with the reason it gives.

• Berklee College of MusicRelated: Jazz is a central tradition in Berklee’s history and performance training.

• Hugh MasekelaNarrower topic: Masekela drew on jazz while grounding his work in South African musical traditions.

• Jazz at Lincoln CenterNarrower topic: The organization’s history and purpose are inseparable from the broader history of jazz.

• La Monte YoungRelated: Young’s saxophone playing and early musical life drew on jazz performance.

• Minton's PlayhouseNarrower topic: Minton’s is a distinct chapter in jazz’s ongoing history of musical invention.

• Musical modernismRelated: Jazz interacted with modernist composition through shared experiments in rhythm, harmony, and form.

• Nina SimoneNarrower topic: Jazz shaped Simone’s phrasing and early repertoire, but it cannot contain her full musical range.

• Tenor saxophoneNarrower topic: Jazz became the tenor saxophone's most prominent musical setting.

• Wind instrumentRelated: Wind instruments such as saxophones and trumpets often carry its improvisational lines.

• History of musicRelated: Its development connects musical innovation with migration, race, and commercial recording.

• La La LandRelated: Sebastian’s devotion to jazz gives the story a debate about tradition and change.

• Paul WhitemanNarrower topic: Whiteman’s reputation rests on popularizing music drawn from a tradition his orchestra did not originate.

• Entartete MusikRelated: Nazi propaganda racialized jazz and associated it with supposed foreign corruption.

• John KanderRelated: Jazz colors the urban settings and theatrical rhythms of several Kander scores.

• The Man with the Golden ArmNarrower topic: Jazz links Frankie’s drumming ambitions to the film’s score and nightclub world.

• Adolphe SaxRelated: Jazz later made the saxophone a central voice, far beyond the military-band role Sax envisioned.

• Alto saxophoneNarrower topic: Jazz made the alto saxophone a prominent solo instrument.

• Lounge musicNarrower topic: Jazz supplies many of lounge music’s harmonic and performance conventions, though the styles are not identical.

• Original Dixieland Jass BandNarrower topic: The band’s record helped introduce the word and sound of jazz to mass audiences.

• VibraphoneNarrower topic: Jazz is the vibraphone’s best-known musical setting, especially for improvisation and sustained harmony.

• Buddy BoldenNarrower topic: Bolden is widely regarded as an early formative figure in jazz’s development.

• Charles TrenetRelated: Jazz rhythms informed the buoyancy and swing of many Trenet songs.

• FlugelhornNarrower topic: Jazz made the flugelhorn a prominent solo voice beyond its earlier band roles.

• Fred MacMurrayNarrower topic: MacMurray played saxophone professionally before his acting career took off.

• Haruki MurakamiRelated: Jazz appears throughout his fiction and reflects his long-standing interest in music and improvisation.

• Henry ManciniRelated: Jazz rhythms and instrumental colors are central to several of Mancini’s best-known scores.

• Maple Leaf RagNarrower topic: The piece’s syncopated piano language belongs to a musical environment that influenced early jazz.

• Music of the United StatesBroader topic: Jazz transformed American popular and concert music through improvisation and ensemble innovation.

• Norman GranzNarrower topic: Granz helped present jazz as a major concert and recording art.

• Renée FlemingRelated: Fleming has collaborated with jazz musicians and explored jazz-influenced repertoire.

• Savion GloverRelated: Glover treats tap as an improvisational partner to jazz rather than merely choreography set to music.

• SousaphoneRelated: The sousaphone can perform improvised walking bass lines in outdoor jazz ensembles.

• Wynton MarsalisNarrower topic: Marsalis’s career is rooted in jazz performance, composition, and advocacy.

• Billy StrayhornNarrower topic: Strayhorn’s compositions entered a tradition in which performance and collective interpretation continually reshape works.

• Bob WillsRelated: Jazz supplied improvisation and rhythmic ideas for Wills’s arrangements.

• GoateeRelated: Goatees have been a recurring look among jazz musicians and performers.

• James JamersonNarrower topic: Jamerson’s fluid lines drew on jazz bass vocabulary as well as R&B and gospel.

• James P. JohnsonNarrower topic: Stride became an early jazz piano tradition through which Johnson influenced the music’s development.

• James Reese EuropeNarrower topic: Europe’s bands helped audiences hear ensemble styles that preceded jazz’s national popularization.

• Keith JarrettNarrower topic: Jarrett’s career spans jazz ensembles, standards, and solo improvisation.

• Songs in the Key of LifeRelated: Jazz colors the album’s arrangements and is celebrated directly in “Sir Duke.”

• Yoko KannoRelated: Jazz is central to the sound of Cowboy Bebop and several Seatbelts recordings.

• Bohuslav MartinůRelated: Jazz rhythms and sonorities entered Martinů’s music, especially during his years in Paris.

• Culture of the United StatesBroader topic: Jazz exemplifies cultural innovation rooted in African American experience.

• 1910sRelated: Jazz entered wider commercial circulation in the late decade and signaled changing popular culture.

• Abdullah IbrahimNarrower topic: Ibrahim’s work reworks jazz improvisation through South African musical forms.

• Manu DibangoRelated: Jazz improvisation and saxophone phrasing were central to Dibango’s musical language.

• Vigen DerderianNarrower topic: Vigen’s nickname invokes jazz, though it does not by itself define his full musical style.