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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Smith

December 8, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Smith's birthday today! Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Smith was influenced by both gospel and blues. He first achieved prominence in the 1950s where his recordings became popular on jukeboxes before there were commonly used terms to describe his unique musical flavor. In the sixties and seventies ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Matthew Shipp

December 7, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Matthew Shipp's birthday today! Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly became one ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Brubeck

December 6, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Brubeck's birthday today! Brubeck\'s mother studied piano in England and intended to become a concert pianist; at home she taught piano for extra money. Brubeck was not particularly interested in learning by any particular method, but preferred to create his own melodies, and therefore avoided learning to read sheet music. ...

News: Opinion

More Christmas Classics from JazzWax

December 6, 2016

Now meet the rest of the JazzWax Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame family, in order of their induction and linked to Amazon... 2015—Two albums with the same name: Bobby Timmons' Holiday Soul and Don Patterson's Holiday Soul. Both trio albums were recorded for Prestige in Nov. 1964—the former on the 24th and the latter on ...

News: Event

Paris Jazz Club Presents French Quarter: Jazz in NYC from January 7-10

December 5, 2016

The FRENCH QUARTER's fourth edition is on its way to New York for three special evenings on the occasion of three major international jazz events (APAP, Winter Jazz Festival and Global Fest). French jazz currently lives a wonderful revival and Paris Jazz Club aim to spread its creativity, dynamism and richness all over the world. FRENCH ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Enrico Pieranunzi

December 5, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Enrico Pieranunzi's birthday today! Born in Rome in 1949, Enrico Pieranunzi has long been one of the best-known and appreciated personalities on the European jazz scene. Pianist, composer, arranger, he has recorded more than seventy CDs under his own name, ranging from solo piano to trio, and from duet to quintet. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jim Hall

December 4, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Jim Hall's birthday today! Jim Hall, born in Buffalo, and educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. By 1960 Jim had arrived in New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Connee Boswell

December 3, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Connee Boswell's birthday today! Constance Foore “Connee" Boswell was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. With her sisters, Martha and Helvetia “Vet" Boswell, she performed in the 1930s as The Boswell Sisters and became a highly influential singing group during this period via ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 5, 2016

December 2, 2016

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 1 1 Eric Alexander Second Impression (HighNote) 264 289 -25 1 50 1 9 ...

News: Music Industry

Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records

December 2, 2016

Outhere Music is proud to announce the acquisition of the catalogue of the legendary Swiss jazz and contemporary music label HatHut Records. HatHut Records boasts an impressive number of more than 500 CD’s and LP’s, produced by its visionary founder, Werner X. Uehlinger over 40 years. Major composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, ...