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Jazz Musician of the Day: Woody Herman
All About Jazz is celebrating Woody Herman's birthday today! After early experience in Chicago with the bands led by Tom Gerun and Harry Sosnik, Woody Herman toured with Gus Arnheim. In 1934, he joined Isham Jones, and when Jones's group disbanded in 1936 Herman used its leading sidemen as the nucleus for his own orchestra. This ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Oscar Castro-Neves
All About Jazz is celebrating Oscar Castro-Neves' birthday today! Few musicians in the world today can boast a career that reflects a lifetime of accomplishments as diverse, rich and acclaimed as those Oscar Castro-Neves has achieved. Renowned as a composer and arranger for his sophisticated harmonic concepts and the exquisite texture and color of his orchestrations, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Sidney Bechet
All About Jazz is celebrating Sidney Bechet's birthday today! Along with his fellow New Orleanian, Louis Armstrong, Bechet was one of the first great soloists in jazz. His throaty, powerful clarinet and his throbbing soprano are among the most thrilling sounds in early jazz. He went from being a pioneer of jazz in the 1920s to ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today! Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 15, 2023
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 in the United States. Enjoy! TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Taj Mahal Savoy (Stony Plain) 301 253 +48 1 46 1 6 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock
All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today! Bassist Gary Peacock played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry}, {{Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Ponder
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, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Wilson
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 ...
San Diego's High School Ensemble Wins Coveted Jazz Award
San Diego's Young Lions Jazz Conservatory (YLJC) is proud to announce that New Soil Ensemble has won the prestigious Downbeat Student Music Awards for High School Honors Ensemble Outstanding Performance. The DownBeat awards are considered among the most coveted student honors in the music industry. This is the 46th annual Student Music Awards which were launched ...
