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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack McDuff

September 17, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack McDuff's birthday today! Brother Jack McDuff, was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. The instrument at the heart of the soul jazz style was the Hammond B-3 organ, usually in the company of ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Hamiet Bluiett

September 16, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Hamiet Bluiett's birthday today! The finest baritone saxophonist of the 1970s and beyond, Hamiet Bluiett has demonstrated a huge, impressive sound, superb technique, and a mastery of his horn in every register. In his solos, he can provide an array of tonal colors and harmonic options. A first-rate free player who\'s ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

September 15, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Julian “Cannonball" Adderley's birthday today! Both as the leader of his own bands as well as an alto and soprano saxophone stylist, Julian Edwin “Cannonball" Adderley was one of the progenitors of the swinging, rhythmically robust style of music that became known as hard-bop. Born September 15, 1928, into a musical ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jerome Sabbagh

September 14, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jerome Sabbagh's birthday today! Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris and has been living in New York since 1995. He has recorded five albums as a leader, the upcoming “Plugged In", “I Will Follow You", “One Two Three", “Pogo" and “North". Jerome Sabbagh has played with Paul Motian ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mel Torme

September 13, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Mel Torme's birthday today! Mel Torme was among the most enduring singers from the big-band era, maligned by some as the epitome of lounge singer, acclaimed by many more as one of a talented and serious vocalist. Legend has it that Torme began singing for his supper a Chicago restaurant when ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brian Lynch

September 12, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Brian Lynch's birthday today! A respected insider within both the hardcore straight ahead and Latin Jazz communities, 2007 Grammy Award Winner Brian Lynch is as comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as he is swinging through advanced harmony with bebop maestro Phil Woods. A honored graduate ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Connick, Jr.

September 11, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Harry Connick, Jr.'s birthday today! Harry Connick, Jr.\'s career has been studded with awards and recognition, including several multi-platinum and gold albums, Grammy and Emmy awards, a starring role in a Tony-winning Broadway musical and much more. A true American icon, there are few artists of Harry\'s stature, and fewer still ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jim Pearce

September 10, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jim Pearce's birthday today! Pianist / Composer/ Singer Jim Pearce has released 6 Jazz CD’s. The latest being I\'m in the Twilight of a Mediocre Career which hit #1 on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart. Jim was featured in an interview on NPR\'S Morning Edition with Susan Stamberg and Jim’s compositions have ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Elvin Jones

September 9, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Elvin Jones' birthday today! Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan, the youngest child in a family of ten. His father worked for General Motors. Two of Jones\' brothers were also jazz musicians: Hank (piano), and Thad (trumpet/flugelhorn). Elvin began playing professionally in the 1940s, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Butch Warren

September 8, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Butch Warren's birthday today! Butch Warren (born in 1939) is an American jazz double bassist who plays in the hard bop genre. He was especially active in the late-50s and the 1960s. Contents Warren began playing professionally at age 14 in a local Washington, D. C. band led by his father, ...