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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Wheeler
All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Wheeler's birthday today! Although resident in England since 1952 and often thought to be an English musician, Kenny Wheeler was born in Canada in 1930. He began playing in his hometown of St. Catherines, encouraged by his father, a trombonist. His formal studies include composition with Rodney Bennett and William ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Pass
All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Pass' birthday today! Joe Pass almost didn\'t make it as a musician due to his early battle with drug addiction. But following a successful rehab at Synanon and a recording session with fellow recovered musicians entitled Sounds of Synanon, the guitarist was signed by Dick Bock to the Pacific Jazz ...
Jazz Near You Relaunches - Spectacular New Design with More Features
On the heels of Wednesday's Jazz House Concerts website launch (at houseconcerts.jazznearyou.com) comes the relaunching of Jazz Near You with a sparkling new design and several new features. In addition to a spacious new look and brand new pages, the website is easier to navigate and administer, and boasts new features that enhance event pages and ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 15, 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 Pat Martino Formidable (HighNote) 237 269 -32 2 49 1 8 2 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann
All About Jazz is celebrating Jay McShann's birthday today! “The Last of the Blue Devils” Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie, established what came to be known as the Kansas City sound: blues rooted jazz driven by swinging horns laid over a powerful ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Ritenour
All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Ritenour's birthday today! b. Lee Mack Ritenour, 11 January 1952, Los Angeles, CA, USA. The prolific Ritenour has established himself as one of the world\'s leading jazz guitarists with a series of accessible albums over three decades. Starting at the age of 16, Ritenour played his first session with The ...
All About Jazz Promotes House Concerts Through Jazz Near You
A new website that connects house concert presenters, musicians, and fans Alternative jazz venues come in all shapes and sizes and with a growing trend in house concerts, Jazz Near You has created houseconcerts.jazznearyou.com to help existing home concert presenters generate greater turnouts, help musicians find more work (through house concert presentations), and offer guidance to ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: William Parker
All About Jazz is celebrating William Parker's birthday today! As Steve Greenlee of the Boston Globe stated in July 2002, “William Parker has emerged as the most important leader of the current avant-garde scene in jazz.” He is working in many of the more important groups in this genre, some of the most prestigious being his ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Clarke
All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Clarke's birthday today! Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Clarke Spearman, later aka, Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton\'s Playhouse in the ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Weckl
All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Weckl's birthday today! For more than 20 years, Dave Weckl has developed and maintained a reputation among fans, peers, and the international music community as one of the great living drummers. For this, he has received numerous accolades and honors; Modern Drummer inducted Dave into their Hall of Fame and ...
