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News: Website

All About Jazz Launches New Inline Ad Space

June 9, 2018

You have a captive audience with All About Jazz's new inline ad space. Sized at 1200x900 pixels, the ad appears at the center of every article page (that's 70,000 pages and counting!) and after every fourth photo in thousands of slideshows. It's persistent display, occupies an entire screen on certain devices, and is trackable. View the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Doc Cheatham

June 13, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Doc Cheatham's birthday today! One of the very last survivors of the early days of jazz, trumpeter Adolphus “Doc" Cheatham attracted attention from the historically- inclined right up to his death in 1997 at the age of 91. His career recapitulated much of the history of jazz as a whole: he ...

News: Recording

Guitarist Carl Michel Celebrates the music of Paul Motian with "Music in Motian" on Play On Records

June 12, 2018

The music of drummer/composer Paul Motian is revered in certain circles of jazz, while resting in obscurity among others. The performing credits of Motian run deep and are extensive, but as a author of highly original music, he lies in the under-documented category. This will not last much longer as, in the years since his passing, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

June 12, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today! A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. Chick is the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Shelly Manne

June 11, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Shelly Manne's birthday today! Shelly Manne- drums (1920- 1984) As a jazz drummer, studio musician, bandleader and businessman, Shelly Manne was one of the most prolific instrumentalists of modern times. “I’ve really had the best of both worlds,” he said in 1983. “I’ve kept busy playing jazz, and between engagements I’ve ...

News: Recording

Joshua Redman's New Album, "Still Dreaming"—Featuring Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade—Out Now

June 10, 2018

Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and cornetist Ron Miles for Still Dreaming—an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's 1976–1987 band, Old and New Dreams—released on Nonesuch Records on May 25, 2018. Along with the senior Redman, Old and New Dreams featured an all-star lineup of Ornette ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Joao Gilberto

June 10, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Joao Gilberto's birthday today! Born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931, in the town of Juázeiro in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. His father was a wealthy merchant who insisted that all of his seven children receive an education. Gilberto defied his father\'s wishes however, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Barron

June 9, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Barron's birthday today! Kenny Barron\'s unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms is what inspired “The Los Angeles Times" to name him “one of the top jazz pianists in the world" and “Jazz Weekly" to call him “The most lyrical pianist of our ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 11, 2018

June 8, 2018

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 Joey Alexander Eclipse (Motema) 322 330 -8 2 51 1 5 2 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Uri Caine

June 8, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Uri Caine's birthday today! Uri Caine was born in Philadelphia and began studying piano with Bernard Peiffer. He played in bands led by Philly Joe Jones, Hank Mobley, Johnny Coles, Mickey Roker, Odean Pope, Jymmie Merritt, Bootsie Barnes and Grover Washington. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and studied music composition ...