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  • Percussionist and bandleader Tito Puente plays the timbales as he leads his orchestra at a JVC Jazz Festival performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City on June 23, 1991.
    Mike Albans
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    AP
    Infusing African rhythms by way of Cuba, Afro-Cuban jazz flourished in the US
    Robin Lloyd
    With origins in Africa, Cuban rhythms mixed with American jazz in the 1940s, and opened the door for fusions with pop, rock and soul in the 1960s. Robin Lloyd tells the story of Afro-Cuban jazz. Walk through the history, the decades, and the innovators of jazz with KNKX and Jazz24
  • Bobby Thomas Jr. and Wayne Shorter with Weather Report, Amsterdam, 1980
    Chris Hakkens
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    Chris Hakkens, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    The beginning of fusion: Miles Davis drew on soul, funk and rock
    Steve Edwards
    Walk through the history, the decades, and the innovators of jazz with KNKX and Jazz24. In 1969, Miles Davis pioneered the sound of jazz fusion, creating a ripple effect as members of his band went on to form their own iconic side groups. Steve Edwards captures the moment that defined the sound, instruments and key figures of jazz fusion.
  • Set to begin January 9th-15th, this year's NYC Jazz Festival features some of the best and innovative musicians in the genre.
    The Empire Hotel
    2025 NYC Winter Jazz Festival
    Terae Stefon
    A look at one of the early Jazz Festivals of 2025
  • Jazz musician Jimmy Smith plays the organ at his home studio in Sacramento, Calif., May 24, 1993. At the time of Smith's death in 2005, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia said "Jimmy Smith transformed the organ into a jazz instrument."
    Rich Pedroncelli/AP
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    AP
    Organs, gospel music and a steady groove established soul jazz
    Stephanie Anne Johnson
    Walk through the history, the decades, and the innovators of jazz with KNKX and Jazz24. Often using an electric Hammond organ, soul jazz drew influences from gospel, blues and R&B and, of course, the popular soul genre. Stephanie Anne Johnson explores the early days of the soul jazz.
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Ornette Coleman at Enjoy Jazz Festival 2008, Heidelberg, Germany.
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