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2000-01 Utah Jazz Team Stats

  Gm FG% Tpts PPG RPG APG Karl Malone 81 .498 1878 23.2 8.3 4.5 Donyell Marshall 81 .503 1100 13.6 7.0 1.6 Bryon Russell 78 .440…

Hines, Earl “Fatha”

(Encyclopedia) Hines, Earl “Fatha” (Earl Kenneth Hines)Hines, Earl “Fatha”fäˈᵺə [key], 1903–83, American jazz pianist, b. Duquesne, Pa. The son of musicians, he played jazz piano in big bands as a…

Basie, Count

(Encyclopedia) Basie, Count (William Basie)Basie, Countbāˈsē [key], 1904–84, American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer, b. Red Bank, N.J. After working in dance halls and vaudeville in New York…

popular music

(Encyclopedia) popular music: see country and western music; folk song; gospel music; jazz; rap music; rock music.

Malone, Karl Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Malone, Karl Anthony, 1963–, American basketball player, b. Summerfield, La. He played basketball at Louisiana Tech Univ. and joined the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball…

Previn, Sir André

(Encyclopedia) Previn, Sir AndréPrevin, Sir Andréprĕvˈĭn [key], 1929–2019, American conductor, composer, and pianist, b. Germany as Andreas Ludwig Priwin. His family fled Nazi Germany in 1938, and he…

syncopation

(Encyclopedia) syncopationsyncopationsĭngˌkəpāˈshən, sĭnˌ– [key] [New Gr.,=cut off ], in music, the accentuation of a beat that normally would be weak according to the rhythmic division of the…

Gilberto, João

(Encyclopedia) Gilberto, João (João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira), 1931–2019, Brazilian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. With Carlos Jobim and others, he created the cool, sophisticated…

Carmichael, Hoagy

(Encyclopedia) Carmichael, HoagyCarmichael, Hoagyhōˈgē [key] (Hoagland Howard Carmichael), 1899–1981, American songwriter, pianist, and singer, b. Bloomington, Ind. While still a student at Indiana…

Blake, Eubie

(Encyclopedia) Blake, Eubie (James Hubert Blake), 1887–1983, African-American pianist and composer, b. Baltimore. His career extended from ragtime (see…