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Red Carpet Productions and All About Jazz Media Partner on 2027 Artist Residency Grant Program
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All About Jazz
Red Carpet Productions, S.L., a residential recording studio and cultural center for music creation in Mallorca, Spain, and All About Jazz Media, a new initiative of All About Jazz, the global jazz platform connecting musicians, audiences, and the wider jazz community, today announced a collaboration to launch an artist residency grant program for musicians. The program is designed to award four competitive, merit-based grants each year through application, one in each quarter. Each quarter is dedicated to a different career-stage ...
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'Everybody Digs Bill Evans' Film by Director Grant Gee Debuts at the Berlin International Film Festival
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All About Jazz
New York, June 1961. Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bassist Scott LaFaro, his musical soulmate. A residency at New York’s Village Vanguard culminates in the live taping of two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one day. Only a few days later, LaFaro dies tragically in a car crash. Numb with grief, Evans stops playing for the first time since his childhood. This is the story ...
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Backgrounder: Grant Green and Sonny Clark
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Throughout jazz history, there have been magical pairings of musicians in recording studios. Sometimes the union was established jointly by the two musicians. At other times, producers brought them together. These couplings include Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden, Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine, Sonny Stitt and Don Patterson, and Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams. Add to the list guitarist Grant Green and pianist Sonny Clark. ...
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A Tribe for Jazz Awarded Battelle Central Ohio STEM Grant for Groundbreaking Jazz Lab Mobile Pilot
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Michael Ricci
A Tribe for Jazz proudly announces receipt of a Battelle Central Ohio STEM Grant, awarded for their innovative Jazz Lab mobile pilot initiative. As a leading nonprofit philanthropic organization, Battelle dedicates a significant portion of its resources to STEM initiatives, aiming to equip students with the necessary skills to become future leaders and innovators. “These creative and impactful projects will expand access to STEM education across Central Ohio,” said Wes Hall, Senior Vice President of Philanthropy and Education at Battelle. ...
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Red Garland: Groovy, 1956-57
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Pianist Red Garland's Groovy was released by Prestige in mid-December 1957. It was an album comprised of songs left behind on three different recording sessions, but they were hardly scraps. All of the tracks were excellent, and the trio throughout featured Garland's working group at the time—Paul Chamber on bass and Art Taylor on drums. The album was reflective of Garland's work with the Miles Davis Quintet since 1955. His debut record for Prestige under his own name was A ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Grant Green
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Grant Green's birthday today!
Green was born on June 6, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. He first performed in a professional setting at the age of 13. His early influences were Charlie Christian and Charlie Parker; however, he played extensive R & B gigs in his home town and in East Saint Louis, IL while developing his jazz chops. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the Delmark label. ...
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Backgrounder: Grant Green, Gooden's Corner
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you're new to Grant Green and want to really get a sense of why the guitarist was so special, this week's Backgrounder is for you. Recorded in December 1961, Gooden's Corner was among a bunch of Blue Note albums by Green that weren't released soon after they were recorded. In this album's case, the album didn't come out until 1980. I'm guessing the move had to do with the overdose death of Sonny Clark in January 1963, at age ...
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Backgrounder: Chet Baker - Pretty/Groovy
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1958, Dick Bock of World Pacific Records decided to release a 12-inch compilation combining previously issued material by Chet Baker tracks that hadn't been released before. What they all had in common was beauty and a groove. This little-known album was called Pretty/Groovy. The songs on the album are... Look for the Silver Lining Time After Time Travelin' Light My Funny Valentine There Will Never Be Another You The Thrill Is Gone But Not for Me Band Aid The ...
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Grant Green: 'Live at the Lighthouse'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Guitarist Grant Green had two significant careers. The first was as a Blue Note artist who recorded 29 albums for the label between 1960 and 1972, most of them straight ahead jazz. The other career was as a funky soul-jazz player who recorded important riff-driven albums for other labels starting in 1965 (His Majesty King Funk for Verve). This career was eclipsed by the rapid rise of the jazz fusion movement. One album that bridged these two careers was his ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Grant Green
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Grant Green's birthday today!
Green was born on June 6, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. He first performed in a professional setting at the age of 13. His early influences were Charlie Christian and Charlie Parker; however, he played extensive R & B gigs in his home town and in East Saint Louis, IL while developing his jazz chops. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the Delmark label. ...
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