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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack DeJohnette

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack DeJohnette

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack DeJohnette's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jack DeJohnetteBorn in Chicago in 1942, Jack De Johnette is widely regarded as one of jazz music\'s greatest drummers. Music appreciation flourished in De Johnette\'s family... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Le Jazz de Paris Avec Amour

Le Jazz de Paris Avec Amour

Autumn in Paris Alive with Sounds of Jazz There are are few countries in the world to rival France in its respect for Jazz as an art form and for Jazz Musicians. Many of the leading exponents, particularly American musicians, have found both temporary and permanent homes there, enhancing both their artistic and personal lives in ...

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News: Music Industry

Can Jazz Be Saved?

The audience for America’s great art form is withering away. In 1987, Congress passed a joint resolution declaring jazz to be “a rare and valuable national treasure.” Nowadays the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis is taught in public schools, heard on TV commercials and performed at prestigious venues such as ...

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News: Festival

Indianapolis Jazz Festival Sept. 19th-27th 2009

Indianapolis Jazz Festival Sept. 19th-27th 2009

Jazz isn’t just alive and well in Indianapolis, it’s busting out at the seams! It's a stellar line-up for the Indianapolis Jazz Festival, scheduled for the week of September 19th through the 27th. Features artists such as Joshua Redman, Claudia Acuña, Branford Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Marcus Miller and a host of others. Spread across town at ...

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News: Interview

Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds

The drummer Tyshawn Sorey confounds easy assumptions, including the assumption that because he is a drummer, his own music should favor the drums, or the assumption that because he plays jazz, all of his music should sound like jazz. His new band is a trio with guitar and bass, but its pretty far from any standard ...

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News: Interview

Pirate Troubadour Roaming the Seas of Improvisation

Pirate Troubadour Roaming the Seas of Improvisation

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz. Blame it on John Coltrane, whose classic 1961 album, “Live at the Village Vanguard,” landed in Mr. Vazquez’s record collection when he was 14. “That was the second jazz record I ever owned,” Mr. Vazquez, 51, said at his apartment here. ...

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News: TV / Film

Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY Screen's and Discusses Woody Guthrie Documentary, "Ain't Got No Home"

On Tuesday, July 14th, at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York about a hundred ticket holders found residence in Peter Frumkin's biographical documentary on Woody Guthrie called “Ain't Got No Home." Opening the evening, which included a discussion from Mr. Frumkin and Guthrie's daughter Nora, Jacob Burn's program director, Brain Ackerman described the initiative ...

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News: Interview

At Age 82, Still Serving up Jazz with Soul

At Age 82, Still Serving up Jazz with Soul

THE alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson burst on the jazz scene around 1950 with a bebop style that many listeners likened to Charlie Parker’s. A few years later, he adopted a more basic blues approach that evolved into a popular, and profitable, jazz corollary to the work of soul singers like James Brown. Today, at 82, he ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds

Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds

The drummer Tyshawn Sorey confounds easy assumptions, including the assumption that because he is a drummer, his own music should favor the drums, or the assumption that because he plays jazz, all of his music should sound like jazz. His new band is a trio with guitar and bass, but it’s pretty far from any standard ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Times: Nine Jazz Acts at Nine Venues in Shoreline

The business district along 15th Avenue Northeast in Shoreline, called North City, got its new sidewalks three years ago when the city spent millions to put utility lines underground, widen the walkways and install new light standards. Inspired by the neighborhood facelift, three local businessmen, one of them a jazz musician, came up with the idea ...


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