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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Weckl
All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Weckl's birthday today! For more than 20 years, Dave Weckl has developed and maintained a reputation among fans, peers, and the international music community as one of the great living drummers. For this, he has received numerous accolades and honors; Modern Drummer inducted Dave into their Hall of Fame and ...
Ches Smith with Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri release "The Bell" on ECM Records
Ches Smith: drums, vibraphone, timpani; Craig Taborn: piano; Mat Maneri: viola The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. “The best thing I caught all weekend,” said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, “was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist Craig Taborn and violist Mat ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Henry "Red" Allen
All About Jazz is celebrating Henry “Red" Allen's birthday today! Trumpet player, Henry “Red" Allen Jr. was the son of Henry Allen who was the leader of the Allen Brass Band of Algiers, Louisiana. Algiers is directly across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. As a teenager he played in his father\'s band, with George Lewis, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Maurice Brown
All About Jazz is celebrating Maurice Brown's birthday today! Grammy award winning trumpet virtuoso/super-producer Maurice “Mobetta" Brown enters 2012 with a wealth of projects, recording dates and concert appearances that will keep his fans abuzz with anticipation. Later this year, Maurice will release the follow-up to his critically acclaimed sophomore release, “The Cycle of Love" (Brown ...
Paul Bley: 1932-2016
It is with deep regret that we share the news below from the family of the great Paul Bley: Paul Bley, renowned jazz pianist, died January 3, 2016 at home with his family. Born November 10, 1932 in Montreal, QC, he began music studies at the age of five. At 13, he formed the “Buzzy Bley ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Paul Wertico
All About Jazz is celebrating Paul Wertico's birthday today! Hailed in the press as “One of the most versatile and musical drummers in music today”, Paul was born on January 5, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. At age 12, he learned how to read music and play drums and percussion instruments in grade school. At age 14, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: John McLaughlin
All About Jazz is celebrating John McLaughlin's birthday today! John McLaughlin, also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitarist from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England. He came to prominence with the electric group of Miles Davis in the late 1960s, and with other well- known players such as Chick Corea and Tony Williams. Before moving to ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: James Carter
All About Jazz is celebrating James Carter's birthday today! Sometimes it takes an extraordinary talent to inspire an unprecedented piece of music. For Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra, the epiphany struck in the midst of a tenor saxophone solo by James Carter, who was appearing as the featured soloist with legendary soprano Kathleen Battle. Long fascinated ...
Daniel Smith, The World’s Most Recorded Bassoon Soloist dies at 77
Daniel Smith, who was one of the few bassoonists recording and performing in both Jazz and Classical music, described as the “Gerry Mulligan of The Bassoon", in the world of Jazz and the “Rampal of The Bassoon" in classical music, dies at 77 on December 19, 2015 in Brooklyn, NY. The cause of death was an ...
Top 15 "Read" Interviews: 2015
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often an interview is read, and the interviews listed below represent our top 15 published in 2015. Kind of Purple: Jazz musicians on Prince Prince by Kurt Gottschalk Published: December 17, 2015 Bill Laswell: No Boundaries ...
