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Jazz Musician of the Day: David Fiuczynski

March 5, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating David Fiuczynski's birthday today! Iconoclastic and prolific jazz-rock guitarist David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski, a jazz player who“doesn’t want to play just jazz”, has been hailed by the world press as an incredibly inventive guitar hero, who continues to deliver with music that is unclassifiable, challenging and invigorating. An innovative musician who has ...

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All About Jazz Launches Weekly Jazz Trivia Poll on Twitter - #JazzPoll #JazzTrivia

March 3, 2018

Senior Contributor Karl Ackermann and your friends at All About Jazz have launched a weekly jazz trivia poll on its Twitter page: https://twitter.com/AllAboutJazz Join the fun, cast your vote, and look for the previous week's correct answer when we launch the new poll every Monday. Search on hashtag: #JazzPoll or #JazzTrivia Have a jazz trivia question ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Shew

March 4, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Shew's birthday today! Born In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bobby Shew began playing the guitar at the age of eight and switched to the trumpet at ten. By the time he was thirteen he was playing at local dances with a number of bands and by fifteen had put together his ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Garrison

March 3, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Garrison's birthday today! Bassist Jimmy Garrison was the anchor in the classic John Coltrane Quartet, from 1961-\'66, which recorded all of its well-known albums on Impulse. Garrison\'s big, blunt sound, steady time and inventive counter lines were an elemental ingredient in the sound of that famous group. He actually fitted ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

March 2, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis' birthday today! Eddie Lockjaw Davis was one musician who provided a link from the big band era through to the soul jazz phenomenon of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Davis developed one of the most unmistakable tenor sax sounds in post war jazz. With a full bodied ...

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Register Now: Jazzahead! 2018 Set for April 19-22 in Bremen, Germany

March 1, 2018

Where the jazz world gathers The international jazz trade fair jazzahead! 2018 in Bremen has a special focus on partner country Poland, an increase in participants from Central Europe and innovations in the conference programme. The jazz trade fair has seen an increase in registrations from its target markets This year’s jazzahead!, the 13th edition, will ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Miller

March 1, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Miller's birthday today! Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, in a small rural Southwestern Iowa town, a boy was born to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller. The date was March 1, 1904 and the town was Clarinda. The boy that was born that night was named Alton Glen ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charles Gayle

February 28, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Charles Gayle's birthday today! Charles Gayle blew down with hurricane force- the pun is too obvious- out of Buffalo. He drifted in and out of the first great free jazz scenes of the Sixties, playing with Pharoah, Archie Shepp, and other trailblazers. But he says now that his sound then was ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dexter Gordon

February 27, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Dexter Gordon's birthday today! Dexter Gordon is considered to be the first musician to translate the language of Bebop to the tenor saxophone. Dexter Keith Gordon was born on February 27, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. His father, Dr. Frank Gordon, was one of the first African American doctors in Los ...

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Jazz Near You Improvements - Hilton Head Island, Palm Springs and a Dozen Italian Cities Added

February 26, 2018

We made some recent improvements to Jazz Near You and added the following cities to our growing list. United States Hilton Head IslandAdministrator: Martin McFie Palm Springs Administrator: Brown Miller Italy Bari Bolzano Ferrara Genoa Modena Novara Parma Perugia Pescara Ravenna Trento Verona Improvements Include: A stylish new design; Embedding a video on an ...