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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe McPhee

November 3, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Joe McPhee's birthday today! Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Elling

November 2, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Elling's birthday today! GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling is among the world\'s foremost jazz vocalists. He won the DownBeat Critics Poll for fourteen consecutive years and was been named “Male Singer of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span. Every one of Elling\'s ten albums ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Antonio Sanchez

November 1, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Antonio Sanchez's birthday today! Antonio Sanchez was born in Mexico City November 1st, 1971. At age five, he discoreved an irresistible attraction towards the drum set. After a few years of private study he started performing in a wide variety of musical situations ranging from rock to jazz and latin to ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Illinois Jacquet

October 31, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Illinois Jacquet's birthday today! Illinois Jacquet is considered to be one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in the history of jazz music. Born on October 31, 1922, in Broussard, Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Illinois Jacquet, at the age of 19 on the very first recording of his career, spawned an entirely ...

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All About Jazz Improves MP3 Download of the Day Service

October 31, 2015

To our musician, record label and publicity firm partners: We made several recent changes to the All About Jazz Download of the Day service resulting in improved download performance. With the latest upgrade... We replaced the Flash music player with an HTML5 music player that works across all devices; We improved the appearance of the page ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Clifford Brown

October 30, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Clifford Brown's birthday today! He was the most brilliant trumpet player of his generation, an original and memorable composer, a dynamic stage presence and one of the authentic legends of modern jazz. Clifford Brown was born October 30, 1930 in Wilmington, Delaware. As a young high school student Brown began playing ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims

October 29, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! John Haley “Zoot" Sims was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him. ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 2, 2015

October 29, 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! TWLW2WArtistTWLW MoveAddRptsPeakWks 121Orrin Evans The Evolution Of Oneself (Smoke Sessions)309 239+702 6017 242Gerry Gibbs and the Thrasher Dream Trio Live In Studio (Whaling City Sound)266 213+532 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Rosenwinkel

October 28, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Rosenwinkel's birthday today! Following a string of three acclaimed recordings for Verve Records that firmly established him as one of the most strikingly original new voices in jazz as both guitarist and composer (2000’s The Enemies of Energy, 2001’s The Next Step and 2003’s Heartcore), Kurt Rosenwinkel returns with an ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: David Hazeltine

October 27, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating David Hazeltine's birthday today! DAVID HAZELTINE is one of a handful of young pianists who has successfully forged his own distinctive style and musical voice out of the accumulated greatness and weight of a modern piano tradition. David\'s influences extend from Art Tatum and Bud Powell to such great living masters ...