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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mike Westbrook

March 21, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Mike Westbrook's birthday today! Mike Westbrook has led, and composed for, a succession of Big Bands and small groups since the early 1960\'s. He has toured extensively throughout Europe and further afield and made 40 albums. His principal compositions for Jazz Orchestra include Citadel/Room 315 featuring John Surman, On Duke\'s Birthday ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Marian McPartland

March 20, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Marian McPartland's birthday today! Marian McPartland has made jazz piano duets into something of an art form. Sure, it\'s been done before, but not very often. There are the Pete Johnson/Albert Ammons duet sessions that made both boogie pianists stars, but save for the occasional live performance where a couple of ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eliane Elias

March 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Eliane Elias' birthday today! Multi GRAMMY® Award Nominee, pianist/singer/composer/arranger Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots, her sensuous, alluring voice with her impressive instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Eliane’s performing career began in Brazil at ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Frisell

March 18, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Frisell's birthday today! Over the years, Frisell has contributed to the work of such collaborators as Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Ginger Baker, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Suzanne Vega, Loudon Wainwright III, Van Dyke Parks, Vic Chesnutt, Rickie, Lee Jones, Ron Sexsmith, Vinicius Cantuaria, Marc Johnson (in “Bass Desires"), ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Nat "King" Cole

March 17, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Nat “King" Cole's birthday today! Nat King Cole was one of the most popular singers ever to hit the American charts. A brilliant recording and concert artist during the 40\'s, 50\'s and 60\'s, he attracted millions of fans around the world with a sensitive and caressing singing voice that was unmistakable. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan

March 16, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today! Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan handles his world class ranking with an equanimity, a modesty, an easy friendliness not always associated with ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charles Lloyd

March 15, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Charles Lloyd's birthday today! Sangam is the first release from Charles Lloyd’s exciting new trio with Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland, the gifted drummer from his ‘regular’ quartet. The album--Lloyd’s first live disc for ECM--was recorded in California in 2004. Taped at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Murphy

March 14, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Murphy's birthday today! Mark Murphy is one of the world\'s greatest -- and hippest -- jazz vocalists performing today. His coterie of fans includes tap dancer Gregory Hines, who spontaneously jumped up on stage at Mark\'s Las Vegas engagement in 1995 to join him for an impromptu duet. Legendary composer ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Haynes

March 13, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Haynes' birthday today! Roy Haynes was born in Boston, March 13, 1925, and was keenly interested in jazz ever since he can remember. Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie Christian inflected guitarist Tom Brown, bandleader Sabby Lewis, and Kansas City blues-shout alto ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Vinson Valega

March 12, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Vinson Valega's birthday today! Vinson Valega grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in ...