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News: Interview

Interview: Gunther Schuller (Part 3)

January 21, 2010

Between 1955 and 1957, Gunther Schuller participated in three fascinating jazz recordings: the Modern Jazz Society (Verve) with John Lewis, Gigi Gryce's Nica's Tempo (Signal) and Birth of the Third Stream (Columbia), which featured music recorded at the 1957 Brandeis Jazz Festival. Each explored jazz-classical concepts, though Nica's Tempo owed more to the linear sound of ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jason Moran

January 21, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Jason Moran's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jason MoranSince his formidable emergence on the music scene in the late 90s, pianist Jason Moran has become a leading light and a man to watch in modern jazz. In almost every category that matters--improvisation, ...

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News: Website

AAJ's New Photo Gallery Tops 30,000 Images in Three Months

January 20, 2010

All About Jazz photo gallery quickly becomes the central source for jazz photography, paintings and illustrations on the web. Launched on October 11, 2009, All About Jazz has developed a new photo gallery that allows professionals to safely promote their work and for enthusiasts and musicians to share their photos with AAJ's growing community of jazz ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Vocalist Elli Fordyce Live in New York City

January 20, 2010

Elli Fordyce will be performing live at The Metropolitan Room in New York City on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 7:30pm, in support of her most recent CD release, “Songs Spun of Gold." Featured will be Elli's Grammy-honored jazz vocals with the album's luminous musicians, led by Jeremy Manasia on piano, with Aaron Heick on alto ...

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News: Event

Annual Newport Beach, CA, Jazz Party Scheduled Feb. 11 Through 14

January 20, 2010

By Larry Taylor Big bands and an array of jazz stars will be featured at the 10th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, held Feb. 11 through 14, at the Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, California. Kicking off the Valentine's/Presidents Day weekend event Thursday night will be Ken Peplowski's Big Band Music of Benny Goodman. Clarinet player ...

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News: Award / Grant

Golden Globes: And the Envelope Goes To....

January 20, 2010

Best Original Score - Motion Picture Michael Giacchino - Up Winner Marvin Hamlisch - The Informant! James Horner - Avatar Abel Korzeniowski - A Single Man Karen O and Carter Burwell - Where The Wild Things Are Best Original Song - Motion Picture “Cinema Italiano" Nine ...

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News: Book / Magazine

A Discussion and Reading by Author Karen Chilton of Her New Book: Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC

January 20, 2010

In this fascinating biography, Karen Chilton traces the brilliant arc of the gifted and audacious pianist Hazel Scott, from international stardom to ultimate obscurity. A child prodigy, born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem in the 1920s, Scott's musical talent was cultivated by her musician mother, Alma Long Scott as well as several great jazz luminaries ...

News: Performance / Tour

Live Review: Mose Allison at Largo's

January 20, 2010

Mose Allison fans couldnt have asked for a more ideal environment for the second performance of his two-night stand at Largo at the Coronet on Sunday night. The first winter storm of 2010 snarled traffic and might have taken a bite out of the evenings attendance, but there were few talents better suited to a rainy ...

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News: Obituary

Kate McGarrigle Canadian Folk Singer and Songwriter Dies

January 20, 2010

Kate McGarrigle, the Canadian singer and songwriter who, with her sister Anna, recorded a string of critically acclaimed albums of literate and wistfully romantic homespun songs and then became the proud matriarch of an extended folk-rock-pop musical family, died Monday after battling cancer in recent years. She was 63. McGarrigle died at her home in Montreal ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ringo Starr's Q&A at the Grammy Museum

January 20, 2010

The Grammy Museum has landed an impressive roster of artists for its series of question-and-answer and performance sessions in the year since it opened at the L.A. Live complex downtown. Among the participants: Brian Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Annie Lennox, Dwight Yoakam, Herb Alpert, Harry Connick Jr. and Clive Davis, Rage Against the Machine / The Nightwatchmans ...