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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Illinois Jacquet

October 31, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Illinois Jacquet's birthday today! Illinois Jacquet is considered to be one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in the history of jazz music. Born on October 31, 1922, in Broussard, Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Illinois Jacquet, at the age of 19 on the very first recording of his career, spawned an entirely ...

Article: In Pictures

Celebrating Andrew Cyrille at the 2019 Vision Festival

by Dave Kaufman
June 22, 2019

The 2019 jazz festival “high holy" season opened with the sounds of the 24th Vision Festival, the longest running jazz festival in New York City. The festival is dedicated to free jazz and improvised music, but it is an expansive celebration of art in its many guises. Dance performances, poetry and visual art forms are an ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Illinois Jacquet

October 31, 2018

Article: Interview

Randy Weston: Brooklyn, Africa e ritorno

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 4, 2018

Per ricordare il grande pianista statunitense, riproponiamo un'intervista del 1999 che ripercorre la sua vita e la sua carriera, dalla nascita a Brooklyn agli anni passati in Africa fino alla consacrazione dopo il rientro negli Stati Uniti. Ogni anno, la facoltà di musica dell'università di Harvard, dedica parte del suo calendario accademico all'analisi ...

Article: Under the Radar

Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands, Part II

by Karl Ackermann
August 30, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 Part 1 of Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands looked at the roots, drivers and challenges of the travelling groups who brought jazz music to the non-urban areas of the Southern Plains, through one-night-stands, in often impromptu venues. A black phenomenon, often misappropriated by white musicians, promoters, ...

Article: Under the Radar

State and Mainstream: The Jazz Ambassadors and the U.S. State Department

by Karl Ackermann
April 27, 2018

The Cold War that began in 1947 and ran for forty-four years, had jazz music as its primary deterrent to global tensions, and it did more to foster good will between the U.S. and global citizens than any previous program launched by the U.S. Department of State. Jazz music, even in its Golden Age, was seldom ...

Article: Interview

Julian Pressley: From The Duke To Ornette In His Own Way

by Victor L. Schermer
March 12, 2018

Julian Pressley isn't exactly a household name, but it's a name every jazz aficionado should know. When he plays his alto saxophone, ears perk up because he's playing what they came to hear: music that embodies the legacy. Passionate, quick-witted, and full of new ideas, Pressley stands out in the crowd, a genuine original. Yet you ...

News: Video / DVD

Illinois Jacquet: Go Power!

November 9, 2017

At the tail end of October, I devoted several posts to Wild Bill Davis, who I feel is the true father of the soul-jazz organ. Davis's superb taste, popular success and treatment of the instrument as a big band in the late 1940s and early '50s helped pave the way for all organists who followed. Coming ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Illinois Jacquet

October 31, 2017

Article: Book Review

Soul Jazz: Jazz In The Black Community, 1945-1975

by James Nadal
July 7, 2017

Soul Jazz: Jazz In The Black Community, 1945-1975 Bob Porter281 Pages ISBN: #978- 15245-4786-8 Xlibris 2016 With the end of World War II, in 1945, there was great rejoicing and celebrating a triumph over evil, as the United States ushered in a new era. But with segregation still the ...