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Jazz Musician of the Day: Nina Simone

February 21, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Nina Simone's birthday today! The High Priestess - Eunice Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina as the sixth of seven children in a poor family. The child prodigy played piano at the age of four. With the help of her music teacher, who set up the “Eunice Waymon Fund", she ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Nancy Wilson

February 20, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Nancy Wilson's birthday today! Nancy Wilson’s musical style is so diverse that it is hard to classify. Over the years her repertoire has included pop style ballads, jazz and blues, show tunes and well known standards. Critics have described her as “a jazz singer,” “a blues singer,” “a pop singer,” and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jackie Allen

February 19, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Jackie Allen's birthday today! Starry Night (Avant Bass, 2009) With Starry Night, Jackie Allen celebrates her ninth release; a live recording with orchestra featuring star-themed songs arranged expressly for her by seven gifted professionals who have written for such luminaries as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Doc Severinsen, Bobby McFerrin and Diana ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lajos Dudas

February 18, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Lajos Dudas' birthday today! Lajos Dudas was born in Budapest/Hungary and studied there at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1958-1963), laying the foundations for his successful career not only as jazz and pop/rock musician but also on the classical side (Strawinsky: Three Solopieces, Weber: Clarinet ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Buddy DeFranco

February 17, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy DeFranco's birthday today! Buddy DeFranco has the unprecedented distinction of winning twenty Downbeat Magazine Awards, nine Metronome Magazine Awards, and sixteen Playboy All-Stars Awards as the number one jazz clarinetist in the world. Buddy is generally credited with leading the way for jazz clarinetists from the exciting era of swing ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Pete Christlieb

February 16, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Pete Christlieb's birthday today! From the 1970s through the 1990s, the sound of Pete’s tenor could be heard on television and motion picture sound tracks and recordings. The son of a famous bassoon player, Don Christlieb, Pete began his musical journey on the violin at age 7. At 12, he was ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Henry Threadgill

February 15, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Henry Threadgill's birthday today! Threadgill first performed as a percussionist in his high school marching band before taking up the baritone saxophone and later a large portion of the woodwind instrument family. He soon settled primarily upon the alto saxophone and the flute... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rob McConnell

February 14, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Rob McConnell's birthday today! Robert Murray Gordon (Rob) McConnell is a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator and recording artist. Rob McConnell took up the valve trombone in high school, and began his performing career in the early 1950s, performing and studying with Don Thompson, Bobby Gimby, and later, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wardell Gray

February 13, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Wardell Gray's birthday today! Wardell Gray was one of the truly great, yet by now almost obscure, bebop tenor saxophonists. With a smooth mellow and consistent tone, he created a tenor style that veered from swing to bebop, a style that was elegant, sure-footed, mature and distinctive. His premature death under ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brent Jensen

February 12, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Brent Jensen's birthday today! In 1986-87, Brent studied in New York City with jazz legend Lee Konitz on a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. He was a featured winner of the Woodwinds on Fire international talent search conducted by Jazziz magazine (August 1996). Brent has performed with a ...