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Announcing The Gilmore's Inaugural 2026 Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award Recipient: Sullivan Fortner
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AMT Public Relations
Winner of the largest financial gift in jazz for pianists today Watch awards ceremony streaming on The Gilmore’s YouTube Channel Pianist Sullivan Fortner has been named the recipient of The Gilmore’s inaugural 2026 Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award. One of the most prestigious honors in music, the Award was announced at a special ceremony held October 8, 2025, at The Jerome L. Greene Space in New York City. Marking the largest single gift ever dedicated solely to a jazz ...
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Announcing The Gilmore's Inaugural 2026 Larry J. Bell Young Jazz Artist Awardees: Tyler Bullock And Esteban Castro
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AMT Public Relations
A conversation with the Bell Young Artists + acclaimed pianist Bill Charlap now streaming at TheGilmore.org and via The Gilmore’s YouTube channel. Dr. Pierre van der Westhuizen, Executive and Artistic Director of The Gilmore, today announced Tyler Bullock and Esteban Castro as the recipients of The Gilmore’s inaugural 2026 Larry J. Bell Young Jazz Artist Awards, recognizing artistic excellence. Each winner receives a $25,000 stipend to further their musical career and educational development. Master pianist Bill Charlap honored Tyler and ...
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Outlaw UK Folk Singer Beans On Toast And Jeshua Marshall, Of Larry And His Flask, Embark On Co-headline US Tour, September 26 - October 20, 2024
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1888 Media
Outlaw UK folk singer Beans on Toast and American roots rocker Jeshua Marshall (of Larry and His Flask acclaim) have announced a 4-week coast-to-coast co-headlining trek that sees them on the road from September 26 to October 20. Building on a successful handful of U.S. shows last fall, the like-minded cohorts will play twenty shows in total, canvassing every time zone. It’s a camaraderie that developed quickly. An instant connection as if rediscovering an eons-old friend. Beginning at revered haunt ...
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Backgrounder: Larry Young - Into Somethin', 1964
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Larry Young was unlike any organist who preceded him. Rather than channel the Black church, he was more influenced by R&B and John Coltrane's tenor saxophone and chord changes on original pieces. One of Young's best middle-period albums—between his early soul-jazz recordings and his modal, avant-garde LPs—is Into Somethin', his first leadership work for Blue Note. If you listen carefully to Young's organ, you'll hear the Coltrane influence and how modern it sounds for 1964, when it was recorded. Prior ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Coryell
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Coryell's birthday today!
Musician magazine named him to its list of 100 greatest guitarists alive today, and after releasing more than 60 albums as a leader and playing on dozens more as a sideman in the last 40 years, Larry Coryell's definitely earned that honor. Exploring the sound of the six- string in an extraordinary number of settings, he's done straight-ahead jazz, classical-influenced solo guitar, funk- rock fusion, light pop and guitar duos and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Willis
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Willis' birthday today!
Pianist Larry Willis has had an important and distinguished 40-year career in jazz. Since making his recording debut on Jackie McLean’s landmark 1965 album “Right Now!,” the New York-born Willis has played everything from free jazz to fusion to rock while performing as a valued sideman with such jazz titans as Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey and Woody Shaw. Larry was born in 1942 in Manhattan’s Harlem. Surprisingly, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Young
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Young's birthday today!
A true innovator on the Hammond B3, Young took a different musical path than any of the other organ masters of his time: Although he started out drawing his major influences from the work of Jimmy Smith and the gospel and blues elements that other players employed, but eventually turned to a more complex, modal approach to the organ with sophisticated harmonic and chordal structure Larry Young was born on October ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Goldings
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Goldings' birthday today!
With his signature Hammond organ style and versatility on many keyboards, Boston native Larry Goldings has traversed not only the wide spectrum of jazz where he is perhaps best known, but also the worlds of funk, pop, and electronic/alternative music. High in demand as a sideman, Goldings' sound can be heard on scores of albums by artists in virtually every musical genre. Some of his more notable collaborations include tours and ...
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Sal Mosca and the Larry Bluth Trio
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in 2020, bassist and long-time e-pal Don Messina emailed me about a couple of tapes in his possession that hadn't been released. One was by the Larry Bluth Trio from 2001. The other was a collection of solo recordings by Sal Mosca in 1970 and 1997. My ears went up upon hearing about both tapes. What the two had in common was Lennie Tristano. Bluth and Mosca were both students of Tristano, a blind New York pianist who in ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Coryell
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Coryell's birthday today!
Musician magazine named him to its list of 100 greatest guitarists alive today, and after releasing more than 60 albums as a leader and playing on dozens more as a sideman in the last 40 years, Larry Coryell's definitely earned that honor. Exploring the sound of the six- string in an extraordinary number of settings, he's done straight-ahead jazz, classical-influenced solo guitar, funk- rock fusion, light pop and guitar duos and ...
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