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Crowdfunding Campaign

Seasoned Jazz Singer Records "Lullabies" Album And Dedicates It To Help Fight Child Abuse

Source: Dena Taylor
January 5, 2015

Jazz musician Dena Taylor is raising money to help distribute her newest album, Lullabies, in order to help soothe traumatized children and raise money for organizations fighting child abuse. Music can be a calming and healing influence, and lullabies sung by a mother can be a true expression of love and safety. Unfortunately, some children living in abusive situations never hear a lullaby and have no hope of improving their family’s situation. Jazz singer Dena Taylor is hoping to change ...

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Counting Down the Top 14 Jazz MP3s for 2014

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2015

We're counting down the top 14 MP3s featured at All About Jazz in 2014 starting with Drayen Labie's “Kissa i Lé." Readers can follow the countdown from our Download of the Day page where we'll announce the #1 downloaded track on January 2nd. Fiona Ord-Shrimpton, All About Jazz's Download of the Day editor stated, “Another year passes as we give thanks to so many musicians whose formidable musical outputs continue to excite, amuse and challenge us. Download of the Day ...

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2015 Jazz Birthday Calendar Now Available at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
January 1, 2015

All About Jazz, home to the largest database of jazz musician birthdays has launched a new calendar that allows users to view birthdays in a monthly calendar style format. The website will continue to offer a sequential list by day along with its new calendar that highlights its most popular musician profiles. The musician whose profile has received the most page views is highlighted with a thumbnail image for that particular day. So Happy Birthday, Chris Potter! Musician? To be ...

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Spread Good Cheer: Support All About Jazz and Jazz Near You

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2014

Your friends at All About Jazz want to wish all our readers, especially our registered members, a joyous holiday season filled with family and fun. We have several big projects in store for 2015 including an upgraded and cross-platform version of the Jazz Near You app, a jazz wall, and a home concert initiative spanning the globe. Exciting stuff for sure, and all just around the corner. To keep All About Jazz and Jazz Near You humming along, we'll need ...

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Obituary

Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
December 27, 2014

Buddy DeFranco, the innovative clarinetist who rose from the remains of the swing era to forge new and lasting prominence as the instrument’s pre-eminent interpreter of bebop, died on Wednesday in Panama City, Fla. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his wife, Joyce. From 1939, the year he graduated from a high school music program in Philadelphia, until just a few years ago, Mr. DeFranco was rarely off a stage, large or small. After a decade of roadwork ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz Bridge First Thursday Concert Series In Cheltenham Presents Chico Huff

Source: Bruce Klauber
December 25, 2014

The Jazz Bridge First Wednesdays Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Ashbourne Road in Cheltenham—presents bassist Chico Huff on Wednesday, February 4. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 215-517-8337 or visit jazzbridge.org/events/neighborhood-concerts. Originally a guitarist, Arlie “Chico” Huff has been playing music professionally – on bass—since he was 15 years old. Though never formally trained, he got serious, on-the-job training during his years living ...

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Recording

Four Digital-only World Jazz Fusion Albums By Gino Foti Released On Net Dot Music Label

Source: Gino Foti
December 24, 2014

Net Dot Music, Inc. announces the simultaneous release of four digital-only full-length albums in several jazz and world music sub-genres by bass guitar and keyboard player Gino Foti. The collection, compiled from his catalog of the past decade, blends traditional ethnic sonorities and modern jazz fusion influences into new experiments of cultural hybridity, with each individual album complementing the others by design. Asian Mosaic - Like the universal Yin-Yang concept, balance, dynamism, and inner harmony are the primary features of ...

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Recording

Whirlwind Recordings Releases

Source: Michael Janisch
December 20, 2014

Whirlwind Recordings releases First Meeting: Live in London, Volume 1, a collaborate album by Lee Konitz, Michael Janisch, Dan Tepfer and Jeff Williams. Recorded live in London at the Pizza Express Jazz Club. ABOUT THE ALBUM Lee Konitz is “one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition" (John Zorn). His recorded legacy is massive and uniquely influential, stretching back to his recordings in the late 1940s with the Claude Thornhill Band, Lennie Tristano and ...

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