Home » Search Center » Results: Michael Ricci

Results for "Michael Ricci"

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Andrea Domenici

by AAJ Staff
May 11, 2019

About Andrea Domenici Born and raised in Lecco, Italy, Andrea Domenici is a jazz pianist and composer who has been living in New York since 2012. A 2016 graduate from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Domenici has studied with great piano players such as Benny Green, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron, Dado Moroni, Rossano ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley

May 11, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today! Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Ponder

May 10, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Ponder's birthday today! An excellent guitarist, and sometimes vocalist, with a soulful sound and the ability to uplift any funky jazz date, Pittsburgh native Jimmy Ponder has appeared on many recordings during his long career, over 80 as a sideman and 15 as a leader. Ponder, a self taught musician, ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 13, 2019

May 9, 2019

All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek radio chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations around the United States. Enjoy! TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Herlin Riley Perpetual Optimism (Mack Avenue) 298 321 -23 0 57 1 7 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Wilson

May 9, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Wilson's birthday today! Anthony Wilson is a guitarist and composer known for a nuanced body of work that moves fluidly across genres. Wilson has long been curious about blurring borders and finding the place where where style and possibility intersect. Wilson’s first recording— Anthony Wilson (1997) — featured a nine-piece ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Keith Jarrett

May 8, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Keith Jarrett's birthday today! Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times- universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and as a composer who has ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Arthur Blythe

May 7, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Arthur Blythe's birthday today! A singularly distinctive and uniquely distinguishable stylist, Arthur Blythe is considered one of the greatest alto saxophonist\'s of his generation. Blythe\'s beautiful, passionate and expressive sound validates his reputation as one of the most significant jazz musicians of our times. Blythe\'s work is notable for its exploration ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Paul Dunmall

May 6, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Paul Dunmall's birthday today! After turning professional at seventeen and touring Europe for one year with progressive rock group Marsupilami he moved to America and lived there for three years playing with many musicians including Alice Coltrane and toured with Johnny Guitar Watson for one year. On his return to the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Stanley Cowell

May 5, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Stanley Cowell's birthday today! Stanley Cowell can best be described as an intellectual pianist. From his early classical roots to collaborations with premier jazz artists to his creative solo career, Cowell’s music has been defined by integrity and taste. With an agile left hand and a relentlessly imaginative approach to standards ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ron Carter

May 4, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Ron Carter's birthday today! Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music\'s greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and ...