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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 24, 2017

April 21, 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 Kevin Eubanks East West Time Line (Mack Avenue) 224 240 -16 1 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Slide Hampton

April 21, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Slide Hampton's birthday today! Slide Hampton\'s distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz. At the age of 12 he was already touring the Midwest with the Indianapolis-based Hampton Band, led by his father and comprising other members of his musical family. By 1952, at the age of 20, he ...

News: Event

Connect With All About Jazz / Jazz Near You At JazzAhead! 2017

April 20, 2017

Dear JazzAhead! 2017 conference goers! All About Jazz and Jazz Near You's affable Maxim Micheliov will be on hand for this year's conference, connecting with old friends and making new ones. Max and I are looking to partner with presenting organizations, event aggregators, and catalyst and advocacy organizations to further support local jazz scenes around the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Avishai Cohen

April 20, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Avishai Cohen's birthday today! Bassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat, and was declared one of the 100 Most Influential Bass Players of the 20th Century by Bass Player Magazine, is renowned around the world ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Dick Cully

April 19, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Dick Cully's birthday today! Cully, Dick (Richard) was born on April 19th, 1949 in Manhattan, New York to his parents, Richard born 1917 and Jeanette born 1921 in New York. In 1955 they moved to Lyndhurst, New Jersey where he began his musical career at the age of 16 studying with ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Hal Galper

April 18, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Hal Galper's birthday today! In his fifth decade as a major jazz artist, Hal Galper continues the innovation that has made him one of the most surprising and satisfying pianists alive. Galper is at the forefront of players reaching audiences through the time-tested magic of swing while integrating adventurous rhythmic and ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Buster Williams

April 17, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Buster Williams' birthday today! Buster Williams is a prodigious artist whose playing knows no limits. He has played, recorded and collaborated with jazz giants such as Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Heath, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Herbie Hancock, Larry ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Sittin' In with the Odean Pope Trio at the Kimmel Center

by Geno Thackara
April 16, 2017

Odean Pope TrioSEI Innovation Studio @ The Kimmel CenterPhiladelphia, PAApril 12, 2017 The Kimmel Center's informal Sittin' In program is always about direct connections and communion, but April's exceptional event raised the bar up to the ceiling. Not everyone was even able to sit since the basement theater was packed enough ...

News: Recording

Recent And Upcoming ECM Releases: April - June 2017

April 16, 2017

Look for these recent or upcoming releases on ECM Records. Aaron Parks Find the Way Aaron Parks: piano, Ben Street: double bass, Billy Hart: drums. For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks—following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest”—the prize-winning pianist has convened a cross-generational trio ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Esbjorn Svensson

April 16, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Esbjorn Svensson's birthday today! e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favor of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz- venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, ...