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Jazz Image of the Day Reach Expands to Facebook and Twitter

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2014

All About Jazz handpicks a photo, painting, or illustration daily and features it as our image of the day. In addition to highlighting the image in our Image of the Day box, we also present the last 60 in a montage at the bottom of our gallery pages. All About Jazz pushes the image of the day out to other websites and blogs via its Image of the Day widget, and now features the image of the day on our ...

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Website

Attn: Musicians! Friendly URLs are back!

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2014

Obituary

Mark Flugge | 1962-2014: Jazz pianist was busy performer, teacher

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2014

As his hearing grew worse and the distortion in his head louder, Mark Flugge struggled to perform the jazz music he loved. The double-punch proved particularly painful for the lifelong pianist. He battled nonstop tinnitus and hearing loss — as well as related depression — for nearly two years. On Sunday, the Bexley pianist took his own life at age 52. Increasingly in recent months, the pleasant tones of music and conversation resembled the din of robots and jackhammers. “A ...

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Recording

Darryl Way To Release New Prog Album Children Of The Cosmos

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
May 19, 2014

London, UK – Much to the excitement of prog fans worldwide, legedary Curved Air founding member and violinist, Darryl Way is releasing a new album on Right Honourable Records, via Cherry Red on May 19, 2014. 'Children of the Cosmos' is Way’s first prog album in over twenty years and demonstrates his creative view of Progressive Rock, forty years after being one of the early founders of the genre. 'Children of the Cosmos' features 12 new tracks showcasing Way’s original ...

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Interview

Interview: Don Andrews Of Spirojazz

Source: Eric Taylor
May 19, 2014

Q: Some people, especially those who familiar with progressive-rock albums from the '70s, would expect Space and Alienation as a science-fiction concept record. But Space and Alienation have a deeper meaning on your album, judging from the emotional tone of certain pieces. Is Space and Alienation what we feel from everyday living? In other words, we seek space but yet feel alienated once we have too much of it? A: Space and Alienation is for me about not knowing and ...

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Opinion

Here are jazz's 12 most important musicians

Source: Michael Ricci
May 18, 2014

Herbie Hancock — pianist, composer and maker of musical revolutions — is coming to San Francisco this week (May 16-18) for a series of sold-out shows at SFJazz. With his visit in mind, wheels began to turn: Why not create a list of the dozen greatest living jazz musicians? Hancock would be on it; that was a no-brainer. But who else would make the cut? Why bother with such a list? It's a good way to generate conversation and debate, ...

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Contest

Enter the "Pete Robbins - Pyramid" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Pete Robbins - Pyramid“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 16th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Pete Robbins at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Pete Robbins on Pyramid Pyramid represents a flourishing of my long-standing musical relationships with bassist Eivind Opsvik and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, as well as my long-hoped-for collaboration with MacArthur Fellow and ...

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Radio

"Crazy Rhythm:" Red Nichols And His Five Pennies This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
May 16, 2014

This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. 1920s New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a ...

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