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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wynton Kelly

December 2, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Wynton Kelly's birthday today! His family moved from the island of Jamaica to Brooklyn, New York City when Kelly was four, and he started his professional career as a teenager, initially as a member of R&B groups. After working in the big band and small groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, he ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jaco Pastorius

December 1, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Jaco Pastorius' birthday today! “Jaco" was born John Francis Pastorius III, the first of three sons born to John Francis Pastorius II and Stephanie Katherine Haapala Pastorius. He had Finnish, German, Swedish, and Irish ancestry. Although “Jaco" was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the family subsequently moved to Fort Lauderdale. Jaco went ...

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All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: November 2016

December 1, 2016

All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in November, 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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Find Out Who is Playing Where and When with Jazz Near You

November 30, 2016

What is Jazz Near You? Jazz Near You is an event discovery and event distribution platform consisting of a website, an app, a weekly eblast, and a series of RSS feeds and widgets, and is designed to help jazz presenters and musicians promote their shows while alerting concert goers to events near them. Building Partnerships Jazz ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

November 30, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today! Along with Lester Young in the 30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the 40s, and Zoot Simms in the 50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack\'s a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chuck Mangione

November 29, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Chuck Mangione's birthday today! For more than five decades, Chuck Mangione\'s love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiates from the stage. Mangione first attracted attention with his brother, Gap, in a mainstream jazz band, The Jazz Brothers, in which he ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gigi Gryce

November 28, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Gigi Gryce's birthday today! Gigi Gryce was born George General Grice(sic) on 28th November, 1925 (not 1927) in Pensacola, Florida- although he was brought up in Hartford, Connecticut. He spent a short period in the Navy where he met musicians such as Clark Terry, Jimmy Nottingham and Willie Smith, who were ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Schneider

November 27, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Maria Schneider's birthday today! Maria Schneider’s music has been hailed by critics as “evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization.” She and her orchestra became widely known starting in 1994 when they released their first recording, Evanescence. There, Schneider began to develop her personal way of writing for what would ...

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Connect with All About Jazz / Jazz Near You

April 29, 2021

Establish a free presence at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You by creating a page. We offer two types of professional pages: one for musicians and the other for businesses and organizations. Musicians @ All About Jazz A musician can link to their website, Facebook page, Twitter page, Linkedin page, Instagram page, YourTube page, Wikipedia ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Frank Melrose

November 26, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Frank Melrose's birthday today! Franklyn Taft Melrose was an American jazz and blues pianist, who recorded as Kansas City Frank. He was born in Sumner, Illinois and was the younger brother of Walter and Lester Melrose, who had set up the Melrose Brothers Music Company in Chicago, in 1918. He became ...