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Jazz Near You Imports TicketWeb/Ticketmaster Jazz Events Through Developer Network

January 14, 2017

Jazz Near You, the Internet's largest aggregator and distributor of jazz event and venue information has joined the Ticketmaster Developer Network to import thousands of jazz events in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia. “Our goal is to present the most comprehensive jazz events calendar in the world and importing Ticketmaster events—including ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Wheeler

January 14, 2017

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 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Pass

January 13, 2017

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 ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 16, 2017

January 12, 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 4 1 Norah Jones Day Breaks (Blue Note) 160 142 +18 0 35 1 13 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann

January 12, 2017

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 ...

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2016 All About Jazz Website Achievements

January 11, 2017

2016 was an exciting year for both All About Jazz and Jazz Near You as our vision for the future came into greater focus and was reflected in our various achievements. We explored new technologies, established partnerships with industry leaders, and improved what has become the most sophisticated technical platform in jazz. Much of ...

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Start Your Launchpad Fan Funded Project at All About Jazz

January 11, 2017

Attention musicians: Great news! All About Jazz and ArtistShare have partnered to promote Launchpad—a platform to bring jazz fans and jazz creators together and new ideas to life. With Launchpad, artists can find funders for their creative projects while actively engaging with and acquiring new fans (more about that here). As a jazz musician, you have ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Ritenour

January 11, 2017

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 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: William Parker

January 10, 2017

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 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Clarke

January 9, 2017

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 ...