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Jazz Musician of the Day: Buddy Bolden

September 6, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy Bolden's birthday today! Buddy BoldenBuddy Bolden - cornet (1877 - 1931) Cornetist Buddy Bolden is one of the premier legendary figures of jazz. Credited as the founder of “jass," later to be called jazz, he was the first player to pursue an improvisational style... more ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lars Danielsson

September 5, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Lars Danielsson's birthday today! Lars DanielssonThe bassist Lars Danielsson is reknown and admired in the International Jazz world for his lyrical but groovy playing... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Lars Danielsson Put AAJ's Musician of the Day box on your ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Liebman

September 4, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Liebman's birthday today! Dave LiebmanDavid Liebman was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 4, 1946. He began classical piano lessons at the age of nine and saxophone by twelve... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Dave Liebman Put AAJ's ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: David Sanchez

September 3, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating David Sanchez's birthday today! David SanchezLatin Grammy Award winner David Sánchez is being hailed as “the most profound young tenor saxophonist working today. In a review, world-renown jazz critic Howard Reich saluted the young bandleader saying, “Technically... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: John Zorn

September 2, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating John Zorn's birthday today! John ZornJohn Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in NYC, USA) is a Jewish American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. As a child, Zorn played piano, guitar and flute. He studied at Webster College (now Webster University) in St. Louis... more Website | ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gene Harris

September 1, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Harris' birthday today! Gene HarrisDuring the decades since rising to fame with the Three Sounds in the early 1960\'s, pianist Gene Harris (1933 - 2000) has always stuck true to his singular musical vision…the blues. A masterful pianist with a titanic technique... more ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tineke Postma

August 31, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Tineke Postma's birthday today! Tineke PostmaTineke Postma (August 31 1978, Heerenveen, NL) is a rising star in the Dutch and international jazz scene. During her college years at the Conservatory of Amsterdam... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Tineke Postma Put ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Dorham

August 30, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Dorham's birthday today! Kenny DorhamOvershadowed for most of his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Kenny Dorham Put AAJ's Musician of the Day box ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Parker

August 29, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday today! Charlie ParkerThe only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker was one of the most important and influential saxophonists and jazz players of the 1940’s. When Parker was still a child, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where jazz... more ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Goldings

August 28, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Goldings' birthday today! Larry GoldingsWith his signature Hammond organ style and versatility on many keyboards, Boston native Larry Goldings has traversed not only the wide spectrum of jazz where he is perhaps best known, but also the worlds of funk, pop... more Website ...