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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mike Mainieri

July 4, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Mike Mainieri's birthday today! Primarily recognized as an award-winning, jazz vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri’s equally remarkable talents as producer, arranger, and composer have contributed to shaping the cutting-edge in music. Throughout his fruitful career—now spanning almost five decades—Mike has collaborated with the world’s most formidable jazz player’s produced numerous albums, and discovered ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dr. Lonnie Smith

July 3, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Dr. Lonnie Smith's birthday today! Dr. Lonnie Smith is an unparalleled musician, composer, performer and recording artist. An authentic master and guru of the Hammond B-3 organ for over five decades, he has been featured on over seventy albums, and has recorded and performed with a virtual “Who’s Who” of the ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ahmad Jamal

July 2, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Ahmad Jamal's birthday today! In 1951, Mr. Jamal first recorded \'Ahmad\'s Blues\' on Okeh Records. His arrangement of the folk tune \'Billy Boy\', and \'Poinciana\' (not his original composition), also stem from this period. In 1955, he recorded his first Argo (Chess) Records album that included \'New Rhumba\', \'Excerpts From The ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Erik Friedlander

July 1, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Erik Friedlander's birthday today! Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a first-call studio player and a jazzbo. A veteran of NYC\'s downtown scene, his 12 CDs as a leader recently include, Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music; The Broken Arm Trio, a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Andrew Hill

June 30, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Andrew Hill's birthday today! Over nearly half a century, composer-pianist-ensemble leader Andrew Hill gained international jazz renown for his uniquely original music and recorded ouevre, which is by turns dark, fragile, funny, stark, unforgettably tuneful, percussive, insightful, oblique, transparent and mysterious. With the release of Dusk (Palmetto Records), his first album ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gilberto Gil

June 29, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Gilberto Gil's birthday today! Gilberto Gil carries out a fundamental role in the constant modernization process of Brazilian popular music. Partaking of this scene for 41 years, he has developed one of the most relevant and renown careers as a singer, composer and guitar-player in this field. Gil has had his ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tierney Sutton

June 28, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Tierney Sutton's birthday today! 8-time Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton has received a “Best Jazz Vocal Album” Grammy nod for every project she has released in the last decade. Known for her impeccable voice and imaginative treatments of The Great American Songbook, Sutton is heralded for her abilities as both a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope

June 27, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Elmo Hope's birthday today! This profile was inspired by an exceptional article here on All About Jazz by Derek Taylor called “St. Elmo’s Fire” where he focuses and expands on Elmo Hope’s music and recordings. St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was born in New York on June 27, 1923, began piano studies ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Cunliffe

June 26, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Cunliffe's birthday today! Jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning arranger Bill Cunliffe is known for his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and James Moody. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Johnny Smith

June 25, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Johnny Smith's birthday today! Guitarist Johnny Smith\'s career spans the decades of the 1940\'s through the 1990\'s. From the very beginning of his musical career he influenced the playing of other guitarists. In fact, many mention Smith as a major influence on their playing. The major guitar builders as Guild, Gibson, ...