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News: Recording

Savoy Jazz Releases “Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings - 1944-1948” On Vinyl!

December 5, 2015

Seminal Recordings By Jazz Legend Available On 10-LP 180 Gram Vinyl Set Savoy Jazz has reissued their Grammy nominated collection of jazz pioneer Charlie Parker’s seminal recordings from the 1940’s, Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings on 180 gram vinyl in a 10 LP set. The historic collection produced and compiled by Orrin ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jim Hall

December 4, 2015

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, ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Relaunches Musician Section–Includes revamped profile page

December 3, 2015

All About Jazz continues to support the careers of jazz musicians with a major upgrade to the musician section of its website. Upgrades include... An improved musician/band page All About Jazz profile pages generate traffic and drive traffic. They can be used to promote events, boost video views, and sell music. We moved much of the ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 7, 2015

December 3, 2015

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! TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks141Houston Person Something Personal (HighNote)242228+1445314252Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio Live In Bern (Capri)216203+1354527313Kenny Burrell The Road To Love (HighNote)211252-4154714424Joey DeFrancesco Trip Mode (HighNote)207233-2634824535Gerry Gibbs and ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Wynton Kelly

December 2, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jaco Pastorius

December 1, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

November 30, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chuck Mangione

November 29, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gigi Gryce

November 28, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Schneider

November 27, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Maria Schneider's birthday today! Maria Schneider, born in Windom, Minnesota, arrived in New York City in 1985 after studies at the University of Minnesota, the University of Miami and the Eastman School of Music. She immediately sought out Bob Brookmeyer to study composition. At the same time she became an assistant ...