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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris

June 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Roberto Magris' birthday today! Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 and began his jazz career in the late ‘70s. He has recorded 18 albums with his own groups and has played concerts in 39 different countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia, also performing at several top jazz festivals and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sue Raney

June 18, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Sue Raney's birthday today! Sue Raney has one of the most beautiful voices in music. She is always in-tune, displays complete control over her vibrato, and has the rare gift of being able to interpret lyrics with such deep understanding that she makes them sound fresh, even if the words are ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Scott

June 17, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott's birthday today! Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered one of the leading bebop clarinetists. (The two men were often described as the ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tom Harrell

June 16, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Tom Harrell's birthday today! Admired by Newsweek for his pure melodic genius,Tom Harrell is widely recognized as one of the most creative and uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. He is a frequent winner in Down Beat and Jazz Times magazines\' Critics and Readers Polls and a Grammy nominee. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner

June 15, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today! Born in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to Johnson). He never learned to read music, probably because it was never a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Miller

June 14, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Miller's birthday today! Marcus Miller, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York. He came from a musical family and was influenced early on by his father, a church organist and choir director, as ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jim Miller

June 13, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jim Miller's birthday today! I\'ve been involved in the professional music business since 1970, but incredibly, still enjoy playing the drums anyway. I consider it very fortunate that my Indianapolis grade school had a full band program and indoor plumbing as well... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

June 12, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today! An NEA Jazz Master, 16-time Grammy winner, prolific composer and undisputed keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. In 2010, Chick entered the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame and was named ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Shelly Manne

June 11, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Shelly Manne's birthday today! Shelly Manne - drums (1920 - 1984) As a jazz drummer, studio musician, bandleader and businessman, Shelly Manne was one of the most prolific instrumentalists of modern times. “I’ve really had the best of both worlds,” he said in 1983. “I’ve kept busy playing jazz, and between ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joao Gilberto

June 10, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Joao Gilberto's birthday today! Born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931, in the town of Juázeiro in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. His father was a wealthy merchant who insisted that all of his seven children receive an education. Gilberto defied his father\'s wishes however, ...