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Jazz Musician of the Day: Milton Nascimento

October 26, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Milton Nascimento's birthday today! Milton NascimentoMultitalented Milton Nascimento is frequently acclaimed as Brazil\'s greatest musician. As a singer/songwriter, he weaves a startling blend of musical influences, including Brazilian and African folk strains, European classical music... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Milton Nascimento ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Heath

October 25, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Heath's birthday today! Jimmy HeathJimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger. Jimmy is the middle brother of the legendary Heath Brothers (Percy Heath/bass and Tootie Heath/drums), and is the father of Mtume... more Website ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Odean Pope

October 24, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Odean Pope's birthday today! Odean PopeOdean Pope was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina to musical parents who rooted him in the sounds of the Southern Baptist Church. After moving to Philadelphia at the age of ten... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Odean ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dianne Reeves

October 23, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Dianne Reeves' birthday today! Dianne ReevesRecognized as one of jazz\'s pre-eminent vocalists, Grammy winner Dianne Reeves is one of the most significant singers in jazz. While her singing is steeped in tradition, her rhythmic virtuosity and improvisational ease are breathtaking... more Website | Photos ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Bunnett

October 22, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Bunnett's birthday today! Jane BunnettJane Bunnett has become one of the foremost jazz musicians in Canada, and has gained recognition around the world for her improvising talents, technical proficiency, and writing and band leading abilities. Born and educated in Toronto... more Website | ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dizzy Gillespie

October 21, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Dizzy Gillespie's birthday today! Dizzy GillespieJohn Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina and died in Englewood, New Jersey... more Website ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jelly Roll Morton

October 20, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Jelly Roll Morton's birthday today! Jelly Roll MortonThe city of New Orleans has the distinction of being the ‘birthplace of jazz’ so its appropriate that in New Orleans in or around 1885 to 1890 would be born the self-proclaimed “inventor of jazz”... more Website ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tim Garland

October 19, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Tim Garland's birthday today! Tim GarlandTim Garland is widely known as one of the UKs most successful musical exports working in jazz... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Tim Garland Put AAJ's Musician of the Day box on your website or ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Anita O'Day

October 18, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Anita O'Day's birthday today! Anita O'DayBorn Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1919, O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually changed her name to O’Day and in the late 1930’s began singing in a jazz club called the Off-Beat... more

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Barney Kessel

October 17, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Barney Kessel's birthday today! Barney KesselLegendary musician, guitarist, influential jazz artist, composer, arranger, session player, record producer, one of the leading figures in West Coast jazz, later delving into hard bop, Barney Kessel is now generally considered by fans... more Website | Photos | ...