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Jazz Musician of the Day: John Hollenbeck
All About Jazz is celebrating John Hollenbeck's birthday today! John Hollenbeck\'s versatility as a percussionist and composer is revealed in a body of work that challenges countless boundaries. Performances with Fred Hersh, Kenny Wheeler and Bob Brookmeyer have showcased Hollenbeck\'s melodic and sensitive small-group jazz drumming. His unique approach to big band work is evident as ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Sue Raney
All About Jazz is celebrating Sue Raney's birthday today! Sue Raney has one of the most beautiful voices in music. She is always in-tune, displays complete control over her vibrato, and has the rare gift of being able to interpret lyrics with such deep understanding that she makes them sound fresh, even if the words are ...
Jazz Near You Supports Four New Event Types in Calendar
The Jazz Near You calendar now supports the following events: Jazz Camps, Vespers, Meetups, and Film Screenings. In addition to these new event types, Jazz Near You also supports: Live Performances, Auctions, Art Exhibitions, Award Shows, Book Signings, Conferences, Lectures, and Jam Sessions. Uploading events to Jazz Near You is free! To upload your jazz event, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Scott
All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott's birthday today! Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered one of the leading bebop clarinetists. (The two men were often described as the ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 19, 2017
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 3 1 Jazzmeia Horn A Social Call (Prestige / Concord Music Group) 253 221 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tom Harrell
All About Jazz is celebrating Tom Harrell's birthday today! Praised by Newsweek for his pure melodic genius, Tom Harrell is widely recognized as one of the most creative and uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. Even with a discography of over 260 recordings and a career that spans more than four decades, Harrell has ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner
All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today! Born in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to Johnson). He never learned to read music, probably because it was never a ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Miller
All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Miller's birthday today! Marcus Miller, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York. He came from a musical family and was influenced early on by his father, a church organist and choir director, as ...
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Leverage All About Jazz—the Internet's most technically advanced jazz platform—to reach our vast network of fans and industry professionals locally or worldwide. From establishing a presence at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You to contacting a staff writer about a review, it's all presented on our new and improved Professionals Toolkit Page. The toolkit is ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Doc Cheatham
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 ...
