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Jazz Musician of the Day: David S. Ware

November 7, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating David S. Ware's birthday today! David S. Ware has been playing the saxophone for over 40 years. First in New Jersey public school bands, and in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins as a youth in the \'60s; then as part of the fertile NYC Loft Jazz era of the \'70s. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Arturo Sandoval

November 6, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Arturo Sandoval's birthday today! Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet, composer, recording artist Arturo Sandoval is a virtuoso trumpet master who has expressed his versatility in the realms of jazz, Latin Jazz, popular and classical music. He has won six Grammy’s , one Emmy, is a multiple Billboard award winner for his top ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Neil Cowley

November 5, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Neil Cowley's birthday today! As a young boy, London-born Neil Cowley studied classical music at the prestigious Royal Academy, and by the age of 10 had performed a Shostakovich piano concerto to a full house at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By his mid-teens, Cowley had joined a friend in a Blues ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jeremy Pelt

November 4, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jeremy Pelt's birthday today! Jeremy Pelt arrived in New York in 1998 after graduating from Berklee College of Music. Once he got there, it wasn\'t long before he started being noticed by a lot of top musicians in the city. His first professional Jazz gig was playing with the Mingus Big ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Monheit

November 3, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Monheit's birthday today! “I\'m one of those people who go just a little too crazy over Christmas," Jane Monheit cheerfully admits. “So in my head, I\'ve been planning and conceptualizing this album for years. I was just waiting for the right time." The “right time" now has arrived for The ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Elling

November 2, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Elling's birthday today! Grammy winner Kurt Elling is among the world\'s foremost jazz vocalists. He has won every DownBeat Critics Poll for the last thirteen years and has been named “Male Singer of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span. Every one of Elling\'s ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Antonio Sanchez

November 1, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Antonio Sanchez's birthday today! Antonio Sanchez was born in Mexico City November 1st, 1971. At age five, he discoreved an irresistible attraction towards the drumset. After a few years of private study he started performing in a wide variety of musical situations ranging from rock to jazz and latin to fusion ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ethel Waters

October 31, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Ethel Waters' birthday today! Vocalist and actress Ethel Waters was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two World Wars. She broke barrier after barrier, becoming the first black woman heard on the radio, the first black singer to perform on television, the first African American ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Clifford Brown

October 30, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Clifford Brown's birthday today! He was the most brilliant trumpet player of his generation, an original and memorable composer, a dynamic stage presence and one of the authentic legends of modern jazz. Clifford Brown was born October 30, 1930 in Wilmington, Delaware. As a young high school student Brown began playing ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims

October 29, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! John Haley “Zoot" Sims was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him. ...