Cool Jazz - babay.

Are there any venues for Jazz in the Orlando area. I have not seen any advertisements for Jazz in the local on line newspapers or periodicals.

Perhaps there are some jazz magazines that could give full listings - can anyone help me?

Cool Jazz - babay.

Vegas, if you will be in the Orlando Area Feb. 2nd - April 19th, my I suggest Mardi Gras @ Universal. It%26#39;s quite Jazzy

For more info please check this site

wdwinfo.com/universal/mardi-gras.htm

Cool Jazz - babay.

Hey Partypa - I am talking Cooooooool jazz, yea yea!

Not that stuff they play in New Orleans behind the hearse at funerals in James Bond movies. I mean difficult jazz - oooh thats soo naice. Anyway thanks for spotting that but i am not in the states in Spring - it will be the fall for me ... wop bop shaba dooby dooo

Ok, OK, don%26#39;t yell.

The Jazz Club at PI WAS really good. It closed however to make room for some silly Irish Restaurant :) Only kidding, we ate at Ragland Road last September, it was quite Fun but there was no Jazz

I%26#39;ll keep looking

Sorry you won%26#39;t be coming to PA, Philly has some of the Best Jazz around. We saw Oscar Petterson, God Rest His Soul, just a while back, smooth, is all I can say :)

Sad loss is Oscar one of the greats and has just shuffled off the mortal coil. I wonder if they like jazz in Heaven or is it all hymns.

OH, I know of a few good places in NYC for some very cool Gospel Jazz

OK, still not Orlando

I just feel that the humidity and the sun go together with cooool jazz. Sipping my cold beer and listening to coool sounds man - hey that is soo coool

shapow

oooooh man ... like chilled babay.

The origin of the word Jazz just for Vegasdebut007

Everyone has some idea of what it sounds like, right? Hip or mellow, hot or cool, Dixieland or avante garde, most anyone with a casual interest in music uses the word jazz. But just as attempts to clearly define jazz have stirred decades of debates, so the use of the very word jazz is a source of controversy.

The word has become a part of American culture. ';Jazzy'; clothes. Hip Clothes. ';Jazzy'; car. Cool car. Hep cat daddyo. Hip lingo. The Jazz Age. Al Jolson in jThe Jazz Singer. Dixieland jazz. New Orleans jazz, swingin%26#39; jazz, live jazz, jive, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday everybody knows jazz, right?

But where did the word come from? Who applied it to music in the first place? Given that it has some tawdry connotations, is jazz a fitting name for this highly dignified American music?

THEORIES

Origins of the word jazz are hazy and theories abound. In its original connotation, ';jazz'; was ';jass';. The word came out of bars and bordellos where early jazz was born in places like New Orleans, with its notorious Storyville red light district. Perhaps African Americans coined the term themselves to describe their music during its formative years, when jazz was used as a verb. A musician may have said, ';Jazz it up,'; when he wanted a band to pick up a song%26#39;s pace and swing hard. In various, literature from the past, the word has been spelled jasz, jascz, jas, jass, jaz and jazz.

Or maybe the word, like many others, takes it meaning from its sound or its sound from its meaning for that matter. On that basis, it could mean to hit, or strike, or launch, or some such short, quick stroke or action.

One thing about the word jazz is certain. No two people, whether they be writers, historians, musicians, or fans, will agree on exactly what it means or where it came from.

When you say ';Cool Jazz';, do you mean Smooth Jazz? Or are you talking about Wynton Marsalis/Theolonius Monk/Miles Davis(his earlier stuff)/John Coltraine kind of stuff.

If the former, check out www.wloq.com (for the Smooth Jazz 103.1 station). At times, they have free concerts, usually either at Uptown Altamonte or Lake Island Park in Winter Park. They do have the Sunday Jazz Brunch at the Westin Grand Bohemian on Sundays, but I don%26#39;t know if that%26#39;s just food and radio promotion, or actual live music.

Don%26#39;t know about the other kind. You%26#39;re probably aware of WUCF (89.9) which plays jazz with NPR hourly updates (but not NPR programming) locally.

I think I am Clint Eastwood in ';Play Misty for Me'; - he played that early Miles Davis Stuff and John Coltrane.

Thank partypa and Eddie you came thru for me again Appreciated.

be pop a doooo yah

I%26#39;m not sure what the news is on Church Street Station although I hear the Cheyenne Saloon is reopening. Rosie O Grady%26#39;s used to have Dixie type jazz and it would be great if something like that would reopen.