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Jayceeoh
Jayceeoh is the stage name of Jacob Charles Osher, an American DJ and record producer in bass music and trap who founded Super 7 Records.
Jayda G
Jayda G is the professional name of Jayda Guy, a Canadian house producer, DJ, and environmental toxicologist from British Columbia, nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 2021 Grammys.
JayDaYoungan
JayDaYoungan (Javorius Tykies Scott, 1998-2022) was a Louisiana rapper from Bogalusa known for "23 Island," the mixtapes Forever 23 and Misunderstood, and the Billboard 200 album Baby23; he was killed in a 2022 shooting.
Jaydes
Jaydes (Jayden Yen Dumont, born 2006), also known as yen, formerly evvls, is a pluggnb rapper from Pompano Beach, Florida, known for heartpacing (2022) and a 2024 attempted murder arrest.
Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (Mary Margaret Morgan, 1931-2026), American singer, actress, and Gong Show panelist; 1950s hitmaker whose "That's All I Want From You" reached No. 3 on the Billboard chart in 1955.
Jaz-O
Jaz-O (Jonathan Burks, born 1964), also The Jaz or Big Jaz, is a Brooklyn rapper and producer, Jay-Z's early mentor, EMI-signed in 1989 with Word to the Jaz, credited with the triplet flow, and returned in 2020 with The Warmup on Roc Nation's Equity Distribution.
Jāzeps Vītols
Jāzeps Vītols (1863–1948) was a Latvian composer, choir conductor, and founder of Latvian national music who taught Prokofiev in St Petersburg and led the Latvian Conservatory in Riga.
Jazmin Bean
Jazmin Bean is the stage name of Jasmine Adams, an English non-binary singer and makeup artist from North London whose debut album Traumatic Livelihood arrived in 2024.
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.
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 (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 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 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 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 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 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.
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."
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 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.
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.
JC Chasez
JC Chasez, born Joshua Scott Chasez, is an American singer and songwriter best known as one of NSYNC's two lead vocalists; he released the solo album Schizophrenic in 2004.
JD Samson
JD Samson (Jocelyn Samson, born 1978, Cleveland) is an American musician, DJ, and performance artist, a member of Le Tigre and leader of queer dance collective MEN, later a film composer and NYU Clive Davis Institute professor.