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News: Website

Attn Advertisers: Showcase Service Improvements at AAJ

February 15, 2010

All About Jazz has upgraded its Showcase promotional service for musicians and record labels. Whether it's an independent release or a major label release, AAJ Showcase will greatly raise the awareness of a new album and drive traffic. The revamped Showcase landing page looks like this... Click to ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Gwyneth Herbert Rescores 'The Patsy'

February 15, 2010

"The jazz folk-diva with an awesome voice. Expect beguiling, powerful and often witty songs that strike an emotional chord!" --Time Out Gwyneth first broke onto the scene five years ago, when she was signed up by the Universal conglomerate as a jazz crossover artist. She soon struck out on her own, as a singer-songwriter and has ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Branford Marsalis shines at the Touhill

February 15, 2010

Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis isn't the kind of artist who panders to an audience. When he ventures onto a stage, what you hear is what you get. And Friday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, that meant an exhilarating, challenging and thoroughly entertaining show. Accompanied by pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and ...

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News: Video / DVD

Pops in Full Flight

February 15, 2010

Critical carping and misguided stylistic arguments aside, in every period of his career Louis Armstrong was formidable in his playing and singing. His appearance with the All-Stars at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival reminded many who had taken Armstrong for granted of the power of his art. Through Bert Stern's and Aram Avakian's film Jazz On ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Book Review (Illustrated): Pops

February 15, 2010

Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin, 474 pages, $30) A good biography of a musician makes the reader want to listen. Alexander Wheelock Thayer triggered that compulsion with his life of Beethoven, Marion Hildesheimer with Mozart, Richard Sudhalter with Bix Beiderbecke. Terry Teachout's Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong can be a ...

News: Performance / Tour

Tecora Rogers at Room 43 in Chicago

February 15, 2010

By James Walker, Jr. As has been the case in recent months, Room 43 filled up quickly in anticipation of vocalist Tecora Rogers' return to Hyde Park Jazz Society's weekly soiree at this increasingly popular Sunday evening jazz set. Tecora, recently back home from one of her frequent engagements in Russia, was accompanied by an all ...

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News: Contest

Enter the Enja "Charlie Mariano - The Great Concert" Giveaway Contest

February 15, 2010

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Enja Records “Charlie Mariano - The Great Concert“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 17th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Charlie Mariano at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Henry Threadgill

February 15, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Henry Threadgill's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Henry ThreadgillHenry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944, Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Henry Threadgill Put AAJ's Musician of the Day ...

News: Festival

25th Jewish Music Festival Returns to Bay Area March 20 - 29 and July, 2010

February 14, 2010

Diasporic Ecstasy: The 25th Jewish Music Festival Fetes a Quarter Century of Jewish Creativity with Premiere Performances and Playful Reflection From Berlin to Buenos Aires, from the melodies that bring ecstasy, to cool jazz and hot klezmer, the 25th Jewish Music Festival has embraced the entire multifaceted world of Jewish experience and let it sing. The ...

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News: Interview

Christian McBride the Consumate Bassist

February 14, 2010

Musician Christian McBride has an intriguing way of seeing things, which surfaces when he talks about his instrument, the bass, and his devotion, jazz. “Playing bass is the exact same thing as being in offensive alignment in pro football, “ he tells us. “In jazz, the focus tends to be on the vocalist or the horn ...