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Jazz Musician of the Day: Woody Herman

May 16, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Woody Herman's birthday today! After early experience in Chicago with the bands led by Tom Gerun and Harry Sosnik, Woody Herman toured with Gus Arnheim. In 1934, he joined Isham Jones, and when Jones\'s group disbanded in 1936 Herman used its leading sidemen as the nucleus for his own orchestra. This ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Grace Kelly

May 15, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Grace Kelly's birthday today! When it comes to saxophonist/vocalist/composer/lyricist/arranger Grace Kelly, people seem to be divided into two groups: those who marvel at her proficiency, creativity and ever-accelerating growth, and those who have yet to encounter the 16-year-old wunderkind. The ranks of the former category are growing by the day...When it ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sidney Bechet

May 14, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Sidney Bechet's birthday today! Along with his fellow New Orleanian, Louis Armstrong, Bechet was one of the first great soloists in jazz. His throaty, powerful clarinet and his throbbing soprano are among the most thrilling sounds in early jazz. He went from being a pioneer of jazz in the 1920s to ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland

May 13, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today! Who was Red Garland? Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gerald Wiggins

May 12, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Gerald Wiggins' birthday today! Gerald Wiggins, born in Harlem, is a jazz pianist and organist. He studied classical, but switched to jazz in his teens. He began as a professional playing accompaniment to Stepin Fetchit. He has worked with Louis Armstrong and Benny Carter. In the 1940s he moved to Los ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley

May 11, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today! Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Venissa Santi

May 10, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Venissa Santi's birthday today! Venissas artistry stems from the necessity to express the many influences that have nourished her spirit as a Cuban American. She was born in Ithaca, New York and hails from a long line of Cuban artists. But it was her grandfather, Jacobo Ros Capablanca, a Cuban composer ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Wilson

May 9, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Wilson's birthday today! Anthony Wilson’s career in jazz began auspiciously, and as a creative artist he continues to expand and impress. Among other honors, Wilson\'s first, self-titled CD received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording in 1998; his second CD “Goat Hill Junket" was featured prominently on ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Keith Jarrett

May 8, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Keith Jarrett's birthday today! Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times - universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and as a composer who ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Ford

May 7, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Ford's birthday today! One of the most exciting truths in the jazz world is that within every top sideman is a solo artist itching to emerge from the shadows and into the forefront. Longtime McCoy Tyner saxophonist Joe Ford\'s stunning and diverse Bluemoon debut, Today\'s Nights, proves that such an ...