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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Monaco

August 14, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Monaco's birthday today! One of the greatest honors in a Jazz Musician\'s life is to be voted in the Downbeat Magazine Critics polls and readers polls. In 2005, Tony was blessed to be a voted in both polls and in January 2006, he was also voted by Jazztimes Readers as ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mulgrew Miller

August 13, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Mulgrew Miller's birthday today! Mulgrew Miller is an American jazz pianist born in 1955 in Greenwood, Mississippi. In a childhood filled with early musical experiences, mostly playing gospel music in his church and R&B and blues at dances. Mulgrew was constantly meddling in jazz piano, and established a trio in high ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Pat Metheny

August 12, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Pat Metheny's birthday today! Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Donny McCaslin

August 11, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Donny McCaslin's birthday today! Donny McCaslin launched 2004 with a new CD, balancing his career as bandleader with work as one of New York\'s most in-demand tenor saxophonists. On his latest Arabesque releae, The Way Through, the Brooklyn-based artist continues to defy label, proving he can unearth musical truth in any ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Arnett Cobb

August 10, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Arnett Cobb's birthday today! One of the classic Texas Tenors, there was always excitement elicited by Cobb’s uninhibited, blasting style which earned him the label “Wild Man of the Tenor Sax." Arnette Cleophus Cobbs, was born on August 10, 1918, in Houston, Texas. He was taught piano by his grandmother and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack DeJohnette

August 9, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack DeJohnette's birthday today! Born in Chicago in 1942, Jack De Johnette is widely regarded as one of jazz music\'s greatest drummers. Music appreciation flourished in De Johnette\'s family. He studied classical piano from age four until fourteen before beginning to play drums with his high school concert band.and taking private ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Carter

August 8, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Carter's birthday today! Benny Carter\'s long career was consistently characterized by high musical achievement, and he developed a unique and readily identifiable style as both an alto saxophonist and an arranger. He was able to double on trumpet and was also proficient on clarinet, piano, and trombone. His saxophone playing ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk

August 7, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today! Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Haden

August 6, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Haden's birthday today! “No other instrument in jazz is more essential than the bass, both backbone and heartbeat, and Haden is its master.” (Francis Davis /August, 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly) Time Magazine has hailed jazz legend Charlie Haden as “one of the most restless, gifted, and intrepid players ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Airto Moreira

August 5, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Airto Moreira's birthday today! Airto Moreira made an immediate impact on the American jazz scene by being the first Brazilian percussionist to be playing a lot of different instruments at the same time. He brought them all together with an avant-garde, progressive sensibility, and revolutionized the role of percussion, both in ...