Jazz

American professional wrestler · United States · On the map · Athletes · Born 1973 · age 53

Carlene Denise Moore-Begnaud is a retired American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring name Jazz. She is signed to WWE as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center, and was also a two-time WWF/WWE Women's Champion.

Jazz is read about 164 times a day, in 13 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 19 August 2026

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A life in dates

2024“Even people who don’t know much about jazz are aware that jazz musicians are meant to be ‘characters’ - free-spirited types whose absorption in music generates bizarre behaviour.”In their words3 December 2024Geoffrey Smith ofRead the whole statement

“Destructive or redemptive, degenerate or transformative? Jazz is a phenomenon, a true world music.”In their words19 March 2024Michael Beek ofRead the whole statement

2018“You don't often see a musician that is able to play jazz.”In their words28 May 2018David Slavković ofRead the whole statement

2016“The Negroes invented [Jazz] to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other.”In their wordsSayyid Qutb, as quoted in Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism (2016), by Maajid Nawaz and Tom Bromley, Connecticut: Rowman &Read the whole statement

2008“What makes the performance is the dialogue created between you and everybody around you spontaneously.”In their words5 May 2008Max Roach, as quoted in "Jazz Score: First Set" (5 May 2008), Film Score Monthly Online, Vol. 13, Issue 5Read the whole statement

1999“Music is a journey. Jazz is getting lost.”In their wordsJohn O'Farrell, The Best a Man Can Get (1999)Read the whole statement

1973Born27 August 1973

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Jazz performing the Bitch Clamp on Trish Stratus at WrestleMania XIX

Jazz is married to pro wrestler Rodney Mack

Jazz (left) and Marti Belle as the WSU Tag Team Champions in March 2011

In their own words 4

Jazz

4 statements, newest first

You can be a jazz player and be respected by musicians, but the rest of the world doesn’t care. [...] We’re going to play a game: name a jazz player that means something.
21 October 2024 · Gene Simmons of Kiss, as quoted by Jon Hadusek of, Own words
Jazz has got to retain its integrity, its spirituality. It's got to mean something. That's No. 1. There are a lot of great players thinking that way in the music. It's all good.
11 June 2020 · , in "Sonny Rollins on the Pandemic, Protests and Music" by Daniel King, in The New Yorker, Own words
When they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music.
2008 · Gerald Early, as quoted in Baseball: The Players, The World Series, The Records (2008), by Ron Martirano, p. 7,864, Own words

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She has also competed for the National Wrestling Alliance, where she held the NWA World Women's Championship for over 900 days. She's a producer and the head of women's division for NWA.

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United States