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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Eldridge

January 30, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Eldridge's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Roy EldridgeRoy David Eldridge was a jazz trumpet player in the Swing era. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Roy Eldridge ...

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News: Website

AAJ Tops 5 Million MP3 Downloads

January 29, 2010

All About Jazz recently topped 5,000,000 free MP3 downloads. AAJ has offered a free daily download since November 2005 from artists spanning all genres of jazz including Gary Burton, Brian Blade, Matthew Shipp, Jon Hassell, Kenny Garrett, Dave Holland, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Aaron Parks, Terence Blanchard, Craig Taborn, Mike Moreno, Rob Reddy, Ted Nash, Mingus Big Band, ...

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News: Website

150 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

January 29, 2010

The AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center has just been updated with 150 new releases, reissues, imports and DVDs. The Upcoming Release Center is updated weekly and can be searched by artist, month of release, record label and type (reissue or new release). It is the most comprehensive new release listing for jazz music on the internet. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Southern Cal Jazz

January 29, 2010

Jazz Music in The Southland Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Herb Alpert, the Grammy Award-winning trumpet player and band leader of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, performs a blend of American standards and Brazilian-inspired jazz with his wife, singer Lani ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Music New York Weekend

January 29, 2010

Weekend Jazz New York AUDIA ACUA GROUP (Friday and Saturday) Chilean jazz singer band that includes the guitarist Juancho Herrera 9 and 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street at Spring Street, South Village (212) 242-1063, AFINIDAD (Tuesday and Wednesday) ...

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News: Obituary

Paul R. Jones Major Collector of African American Art Dies

January 29, 2010

Jones acquired drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures and other works by black artists. 'My goal has been to incorporate African American art into American art,' he once said. Paul Jones began buying pieces in the 1960s after noting that African American art was underrepresented in public galleries. In 2008, he donated about 1,700 pieces valued at $5 ...

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News: Obituary

J.D. Salinger: A Gift of Words and Silence

January 29, 2010

AN APPRECIATION In his greatest works, a clash between self-expression and self-effacement. “Don't ever tell anybody anything," J.D. Salinger wrote in the closing lines of “The Catcher in the Rye." “If you do, you start missing everybody." For more than two decades now, I've thought about that ending as a piece of code. Not ...

News: Music Industry

Pasadena Playhouse Will Close Feb. 7

January 29, 2010

The Pasadena Playhouse will close Feb. 7 after the final performance of its current production of “Camelot," leaving its future in jeopardy as company leaders explore ways out of its financial woes, including a possible bankruptcy filing. Stephen Eich, the executive director hired last June to run the theater, said 37 employees learned at a staff ...

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News: Music Industry

Etta James Hospitalized in SoCal with Serious Infection

January 29, 2010

R&B singer Etta James is hospitalized in Southern California with a very serious infection. Donto James says his 72-year-old mother has been at Riverside Community Hospital for about a week and is recovering from sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection. It's believed she has had the infection for quite some time, he said. He says ...

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News: Interview

Buddy de Franco + Sonny Clark, PT 1

January 29, 2010

Clarinetist Buddy De Franco has had a series of astonishing careers. He has been a leading swing era musician, a big band leader, a bebop headliner, an early participant in merging small-group jazz with the American Songbook, a polytonal experimenter, and champion of all forms of the music. Buddy's first 10 years alone are remarkable. In ...