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Jazmine Sullivan
Jazmine Sullivan (born 1987) is an American R&B singer-songwriter from Philadelphia, known for Fearless, Reality Show, and Heaux Tales. Two-time Grammy winner with 18 nominations; won Best R&B Album for Heaux Tales and sang the 2021 Super Bowl national anthem with Eric Church.
Jazmyn Nyx
Jazmyn Nyx, real name Jade Gentile (born 1998), is an American wrestler and former soccer player (WVU, Iceland) who competed in WWE NXT 2023-2025 as part of Fatal Influence before leaving over a contract dispute.
Jazmyn Simon
Jazmyn Simon (born 1980), American actress and children's book author; Dr. Julie Greane on HBO's Ballers, Kat Neese on Raising Dion, Selene in the Psych films; married to Dulé Hill; wrote Most Perfect You and Repeat After Me.
Jazuliyya
The Jazuliyya (الطريقة الجازولية) is a Moroccan Sufi order founded by Muhammad al-Jazuli around devotion to the Prophet, centered on reciting his prayer book, the Dala'il al-Khayrat.
Jazz
Jazz is a family of American music that arose in New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century. It is defined by improvisation, syncopation, and harmonic complexity.
Jazz (design)
Jazz, also called the Solo Jazz cup design, is a teal and purple brushstroke pattern created by Gina Ekiss in a 1989 Sweetheart Cup Company contest, printed on 1990s paper cups, later a meme, with a competing claim by Stephanie Miller.
Jazz (Queen album)
Jazz is Queen's seventh studio album, released 10 November 1978 on EMI and Elektra. Recorded entirely outside England at Mountain Studios, Montreux, with Roy Thomas Baker; includes Don't Stop Me Now, Fat Bottomed Girls, and Bicycle Race.
Jazz (wrestler)
Jazz (Carlene Moore-Begnaud), New Orleans-born retired wrestler, two-time WWE Women's Champion, original ECW star under Paul Heyman, later NWA champion, TNA agent, and Dog Pound wrestling school owner.
Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was the 1920s and early 1930s period, named by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when jazz music spread from New Orleans to national and worldwide popularity amid Prohibition, speakeasies, flappers, the Harlem nightclub scene, and the rise of big bands before the Swing Era.
Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (Jasrado Hermis Arrington Chisholm Jr.), Bahamian MLB infielder for the Yankees, formerly Marlins; two-time All-Star, 2025 Silver Slugger, first 30-30 Yankee since Soriano, MLB The Show '23 cover athlete.
Jazz City
Jazz City is a 2026 Bengali-language Sony LIV web series created, written, and directed by Soumik Sen, starring Arifin Shuvoo as 1971 Calcutta jazz club owner Jimmy Roy during the Bangladesh Liberation War; 10 episodes, premiered March 19, 2026.
Jazz dance
Jazz dance: American dance forms from African-American vernacular roots of the 1910s–1940s, spanning Charleston, Lindy Hop, and authentic jazz to Jack Cole's theatrical jazz, Fosse, and modern studio styles.
Jazz Emu
Jazz Emu is a British musical comedy character, a delusional electro-funk pop star created and performed by ex-Cambridge Footlights comedian Archie Henderson. Known for online videos since 2018 and Fringe shows You Shouldn't Have, Knight Fever and The Pleasure Is All Yours.
Jazz festival
A jazz festival brings several jazz ensembles together over days in one or more venues, first presented in France in the late 1940s and at Newport in 1954.
Jazz Foundation of America
The Jazz Foundation of America is a New York nonprofit founded in 1989 that provides emergency financial, medical, and housing help to jazz and blues musicians.
Jazz funeral
Jazz funeral, also called funeral with music, is a New Orleans African American burial tradition: a brass band plays dirges to the cemetery, then upbeat second line music and dancing on the return, rooted in Yoruba, Vodou, and benevolent-society traditions.
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion blends jazz improvisation with rock, funk, and electric instrumentation; launched by Miles Davis's In a Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970), and carried by Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock.
Jazz guitar
Jazz guitar is a style defined by seventh-chord harmony and improvisation. Early figures include Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian, who made it a lead instrument.
Jazz Human Performance
Jazz Human Performance is the fund-family name used on SEC filings by JAZZ Venture Partners, a San Francisco venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage human-performance companies.
Jazz Institute of Chicago
The Jazz Institute of Chicago is a nonprofit organization founded in 1969 to preserve and nurture jazz in Chicago through education, archives, and free concert series.
Jazz Jackrabbit
Jazz Jackrabbit (Epic MegaGames, 1994) is a DOS shareware platformer by Arjan Brussee and Cliff Bleszinski; the gun-toting rabbit Jazz rescues Eva Earlong from Devan Shell, with a 1998 sequel.
Jazz Jennings
Jazz Jennings is an American transgender activist, author, and reality TV star of TLC's I Am Jazz (2015- ). Known for a 2007 Barbara Walters interview at age six, early transition, memoir Being Jazz, and Harvard studies.
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) is Bert Stern's color documentary of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, featuring Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, and Mahalia Jackson; a National Film Registry concert-film landmark.
Jazz rap
Jazz rap (Jazz-HipHop) is a hip-hop subgenre blending jazz samples, live instrumentation, and improvisation, emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the Native Tongues collective, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, and Guru's Jazzmatazz, later revived by Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.
Jazz Raycole
Jazz Raycole, stage name of Jazzmine Raycole Dillingham, is an American actress and dancer from Stockton, California, known as Claire Kyle on My Wife and Kids, Allison Hawkins on Jericho, and Izzy Letts on Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer.
Jazz scale
Jazz scale: a scale or mode paired with a chord for improvisation, central to chord-scale theory taught at Berklee. Covers the seven modes, melodic minor modes, blues, bebop, altered, and diminished scales, their bebop-to-modal origins, and documented pedagogical limits.
Jazz standard
A jazz standard is a composition, from the Great American Songbook, blues, or jazz originals, held in continuing esteem and used as the basis of jazz arrangements and improvisations; most originated 1929–1940, with "Body and Soul" the most recorded.
Jazzablanca
Jazzablanca, also known as the Jazzablanca Festival, is an annual music festival in Casablanca, Morocco, first staged in 2006 as a jazz festival and now spanning pop, rock, and electronic music.
Jazzar Pasha
Jazzar Pasha, also called Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, was a Bosnian-born Ottoman governor who ruled Sidon from Acre from 1775 until his death in 1804, famously defeating Napoleon's siege of Acre in 1799.
Jazztronik
Jazztronik is a free-form Japanese nu-jazz project led by composer, pianist, and DJ Ryota Nozaki, active since 1998, with no fixed members and over 20 albums.