My Kind of Music (disambiguation)

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My Kind of Music is a British game show.

My Kind of Music may also refer to:

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The phrase and all that jazz means "and other such things", "and all that sort of thing". It is recorded in print in this sense as early as 1959, and was associated with the city of Chicago in Frank Sinatra's 1964 rendition of "My Kind of Town", where the lyric "Chicago is my kind of razzmatazz, and it has all that jazz" is sung.

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