Carlos Boozer scored 31 points and Deron Williams had 20 points and 13 assists to lead the Utah Jazz over the sloppy Memphis Grizzlies 118-94 Saturday night. Complete Story...
Word is already getting around the league on how to stymie Kevin Durant: the more Seattle's lanky second overall draft pick stays outside, the more an equally tall defender jumps out to keep his nose in the skinny teenager's chest.
Deron Williams made a layup with 1.3 seconds remaining, and the Utah Jazz overcame LeBron James' triple-double and tying 3-pointer in a 103-101 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.
Kobe Bryant scored six of his 33 points in the final 4 1/2 minutes after blocking an attempted dunk by Andrei Kirilenko, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 119-109 on Sunday night.
Deron Williams scored 16 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and the Utah Jazz beat the Golden State Warriors 133-110 on Saturday night.
Tracy McGrady scored 47 points and the Houston Rockets got a little revenge for last season's opening-round playoff loss by beating the Utah Jazz 106-95 Thursday night.
Carlos Boozer had 32 points and 15 rebounds, Deron Williams added 24 points and the Utah Jazz jumped right back into last season's playoff form with a 117-96 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.
The preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz scheduled for Thursday night at San Diego was canceled because of the devastation caused by wind-whipped fires that forced at least 346,000 homes in San Diego County to be evacuated.
Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off its season with a centennial salute to Benny "The King" Carter, whose prowess as an alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader earned him the title of "the Renaissance man of jazz."
The Utah Jazz clinched their first trip to the Western Conference finals since 1998 by beating Golden State 100-87 Tuesday night, winning the series 4-1 by finally slowing down the galloping pace that had gotten the Warriors this far.
Derek Fisher capped a dramatic night by scoring all five of his points in overtime in Utah's 127-117 victory over Golden State on Wednesday night — a game Fisher nearly missed while returning from New York, where his baby daughter underwent cancer surgery.
The young Utah Jazz are moving on in the NBA playoffs with a new point guard and power forward combination. With fresh faces — but the same, old coach — the Jazz beat the Houston Rockets 103-99 on Saturday night to clinch their first playoff series victory since 2000 — when John Stockton and Karl Malone were still running the pick-and-roll.
LeBron James came through with 24 points, a season-high 17 rebounds and some stunning dunks to help the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Utah Jazz 82-73 Saturday night for their eighth straight win.
Samuel Dalembert's NFL-like collision flattened Gordan Giricek. That was the opening Kyle Korver needed to finish off the Jazz. Korver rolled off the hard screen and hit the winning basket with 5.1 seconds left, and Andre Iguodala scored 23 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to an 89-88 win over the Utah Jazz on Friday night.
Coach Brian Hill told his Orlando Magic they needed only one game to shake a losing streak and get back into the playoff picture. It happened Wednesday night, when Dwight Howard had 31 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Magic to a 101-90 victory over the Utah Jazz.
Antoine Walker hit a long 3-pointer in the final minutes, then turned and urged the Miami Heat crowd to calm down.
The Utah Jazz took the lead with a dominant third quarter and kept it by grabbing just about every rebound there was in the fourth.
The Utah Jazz already have one more win than they did all of last season and there's still more than a month left to play.
When Mehmet Okur feels like he can't miss, he playfully blows on his fingers as if they're on fire. Okur must have felt like his hands were burning Monday night as he scored 32 points to lead the Utah Jazz over the Charlotte Bobcats for the first time at home, 120-95.
Mehmet Okur sees Utah's recent success on the road as a promising sign for the Jazz come playoff time.
The Utah Jazz had a little trouble getting to their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and few difficulties once they arrived. Deron Williams had 21 points and eight assists to help the Jazz beat the Timberwolves 109-83 Friday night, shaking off a weather-induced travel delay to win their third straight road game.
Once Matt Harpring came off the bench, the Utah Jazz overcame their shaky start.
Kobe Bryant's throat was sore and his back was tight. Good thing he was able to score most of his points standings still. Bryant made up for an off shooting night by making 21 free throws, scoring 35 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 102-94 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday night.
With two starters out because of injuries and two others playing while they recover, the Utah Jazz are relying more on their less experienced players. The young Jazz got a lesson Saturday night in how to build a big lead, blow it and then build it back up again in a 105-87 win over the struggling Boston Celtics.
George Karl, who recently backed away from his declaration that the Northwest Division race was over, refused to concede the crown to the Utah Jazz on Friday night. His team pretty much did so on the court.
What inspired many of the Eastern bloc dissidents during the Cold War—what they found so alluring about the West—was not so much our market capitalism or parliamentary democracy; still less was it our government's policies. It was the insouciant freedom of our culture.
By spurning black influence, indie rock, by all previous experience, should have consigned itself to the dustbin of history.
"It's a way to open the door a bit wider, to people who might not show up for church at ten a.m. Sunday but would at six p.m." He says the Sundown attendance is much more ethnically diverse than Sunday morning's.
Artist: Tony Senatore Title: A 12-String Bass X-Ploration Genre: Instrumental-Rock-Jazz-Fusion Label: Independent Format: DVD Website DVD Buy Link Source Link
Musician and composer Herbie Hancock's career has careened from straight jazz to experimental electronic music over the decades, with his surprise 1983 break-dancing hit, "Rockit," helping set the stage for hip-hop.
Peter Cincotti - Must See You Tube Videos for new album East of Angel Town. If you have not seen or listened to Peter Cincotti you are in for a musical treat - awesome lyrics and music.
This simple sentence "I want to be a force for good", is one that seems to challenge me more as an artist, than it does simply as an individual living in the world.
A music giant has left us. Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul -- who established a new school of music with Miles Davis and led the seminal Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, et al.
Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who rose to fame as musician in Miles Davis band and was one the founders of the jazz group Weather Report, died today. He had been hospitalized since last month at the Wilhelmina Clinic in his native city Vienna in Austria.
Documentary film maker Ken Burns (The Civil Way, Baseball, Jazz) has a new film on PBS about the Second World War. Because of the FCC, PBS is broadcasting only after taking out four uses of profanity.
Best-of lists are most credible when they're not consensual and objective, but individual favorites. A best-guitarists list would be better served by inclusion of, say, cult favorites Trey Anastasio or J Mascis than icon Eric Clapton.
Mix Bartok, lush strings and jazz riffs, and what do you get? The most unusual band on this year's Mercury shortlist.
When Katrina blew her fury across New Orleans in August 2005, she ripped the very heart out of the city. The music. "It's not just about the music, it is about the music community, the people who play the music.
Max Roach, who died on Wednesday aged 83, was one of the most creative and influential percussionists in the history of jazz.
Max Roach, the jazz drummer, composer, bandleader and educator whose approach to rhythm had a profound effect on music in the second half of the 20th century, died of an unspecified illness at his home in New York last night. He was 83 years old.
The house was empty and uncluttered, its renovation nearly complete, a far cry from the sodden wreckage that had greeted
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Excerpt: "Dr. Davis maintained for many years that he had been denied positions in leading classical orchestras because he was black.
IT'S a happy accident that two of the most self-absorbed legends in the history of jazz — the bassist Charles Mingus and the alto saxophonist Art Pepper — married women who wound up equally absorbed in the preservation of their legacies.
It's a happy accident that two of the most self-absorbed legends in the history of jazz — the bassist Charles Mingus and the alto saxophonist Art Pepper — married women who wound up equally absorbed in the preservation of their legacies.
Choking is the evilest of phrases for an athlete. Yet, it is undeniable. In the simplest form when the ones body no longer functions as precisely as one wants to due to the pressure of the moment it is choking. It can be physical or it can be mental decision making. It is real.
Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck has received a lifetime achievement honour at the seventh annual BBC Jazz awards. The Grammy Award winner is best known for producing Take Five with saxophonist Paul Desmond.