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Jazz Musician of the Day: David Fiuczynski

March 5, 2017

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 ...

News: Recording

David Herzhaft releases "Pacific Lounge" on Pacific Waves

March 4, 2017

His instrument of choice is small enough to fit into your hip pocket. But through Pacific Lounge (2016, Pacific Waves), author, instructor, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist David Herzhaft expresses a big vision for the diatonic harmonica. “I first fell in love with the Pacific when I traveled to the West Coast in 1992 and ever ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Shew

March 4, 2017

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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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 6, 2017

March 3, 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 2 1 Joey DeFrancesco + The People Project Freedom (Mack Avenue) 241 207 +34 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Garrison

March 3, 2017

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 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

March 2, 2017

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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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Miller

March 1, 2017

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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All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: February 2017

March 1, 2017

All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in February, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charles Gayle

February 28, 2017

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, 2017

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 ...