If you think it's odd to name a Salt Lake City basketball team after the genre of music known as jazz, you're right. But the Utah Jazz came by its name honestly, courtesy of its first franchise city, New Orleans, where the team's musical branding made a lot of sense. New Orleans, after all, is the home of such trumpet players as Louis Armstrong and Wynton Marsalis, as well as pianists from Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller to Professor...Continue Reading