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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.

Jazzwrld

Jazzwrld, formerly Jazzworx, is the stage name of Kamohelo Monese, a South African amapiano DJ and producer raised in Carletonville whose 2025 records with vocalist Thukuthela topped charts.

Jazzy B

Jazzy B (Jaswinder Singh Bains) is a Canadian Punjabi singer and songwriter who performs bhangra and Punjabi pop, known as the "Crown Prince of Bhangra."

Jazzy Davidson

Jazzy Davidson (Jasmine Omolade Davidson), USC Trojans women's basketball guard from Clackamas, Oregon; 2025-26 national freshman of the year who averaged 17.9 points, 2.0 steals and 2.0 blocks per game.

JB Blanc

JB Blanc (Jean-Benoît Blanc, born 1969, Paris) is a French-born, Los Angeles-based actor, voice actor, and voice director: Dr. Barry Goodman in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, Vander in Arcane, Caustic in Apex Legends, and 400+ game characters.

JB Financial Group

JB Financial Group (JB금융지주) is a South Korean regional financial holding company headquartered in Jeonju, formed in 2013 from Jeonbuk Bank and later Kwangju Bank.

JB Gill

JB Gill (Jonathan Benjamin Gill, born 1986, Croydon) is a British singer, presenter, farmer, and author: JLS member with five UK number-one singles, Kent farmer, CBeebies Down On The Farm presenter, and 2024 Strictly finalist.

JB Hi-Fi

JB Hi-Fi Limited is an Australian discount retailer of consumer electronics and home appliances, founded in 1974, listed on the ASX, and operating 355 stores.

JB McCuskey

JB McCuskey (John B. McCuskey) is an American Republican politician who has served as West Virginia's 35th attorney general since 2025, after two terms as state auditor.

JB Mpiana

JB Mpiana (Jean-Bedel Mpiana wa Tshituka), born 1967 in Kananga, DR Congo, is a Congolese singer and composer who led Wenge Musica, founded Wenge BCBG, and is credited with ndombolo.

JB Straubel

JB Straubel is an American engineer who co-founded Tesla and served as its chief technology officer from 2005 to 2019, then founded Redwood Materials, a Nevada battery recycling company, in 2017.

JB Tadena

JB Tadena (born 1983) is a Filipino American actor, voice actor, and producer from Los Angeles, known as Sebastian on Kung Fu, Paolo Belleza in The Cleaning Lady, voice roles in Raya and the Last Dragon and Ghost of Yōtei, and upcoming roles in The Pitt season 3 and The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.

Jbel Tidirhine

Jbel Tidirhine (Adrar Tidighine, Djebel Tidighine) is Morocco's Rif mountain chain's highest summit, 2,456 m, in Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima near Ketama; limestone peak with endemic Moroccan fir, winter snow, and piste access.

JBJ (제이비제이) (band)

JBJ (제이비제이, Just Be Joyful) was a six-member South Korean project boy band formed from Produce 101 Season 2 contestants ranked 20-30 by fan request, debuting October 18, 2017 with Fantasy and disbanding April 30, 2018 after a seven-month contract.

JBL

JBL is an American audio equipment brand, founded by James Bullough Lansing in 1946, and it is owned by Samsung Electronics through HARMAN International.

JBoss

JBoss is a brand of Java application server and middleware software, originally an open-source application server first released in 1999 and owned by Red Hat since 2006.

JBS S.A.

JBS S.A., also known as Friboi and now listed as JBS N.V. on the NYSE, is a Brazilian multinational meatpacking company founded in 1953 in Anápolis, Goiás. It is the world's largest meatpacker, with six protein segments, US operations, and documented deforestation and corruption controversies.

JBS USA

JBS USA, the Greeley, Colorado-based North American and Oceanian arm of Brazil's JBS, is a leading meat processor (beef, pork, poultry, lamb, prepared foods) created by the 2007 Swift & Company acquisition, with 2021 net sales of US$48.8 billion.

JBT Corporation

JBT Corporation, formally John Bean Technologies Corporation, was an American industrial technology company spun off from FMC Technologies in 2008 to serve food processing and air transportation.