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Jazz Musician of the Day: Nils Petter Molvaer
All About Jazz is celebrating Nils Petter Molvaer's birthday today! Nils Petter Molvær (NPM), Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, connects multiple music styles—jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music—and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity. Born in 1960 on the little ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 21, 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! TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks131Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orch Dee Dee's Feathers (OKeh)279304-2525416252Cécile McLorin Salvant For One To Love (Mack Avenue)273284-1125417343Mike LeDonne AwwlRight! (Savant)235302-6725036424Heads ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack McDuff
All About Jazz is celebrating Jack McDuff's birthday today! Brother Jack McDuff, was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. The instrument at the heart of the soul jazz style was the Hammond B-3 organ, usually in the company of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Byrd
All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Byrd's birthday today! Charlie Byrd jammed with Django Reinhardt, recorded with Woody Herman, studied with the great Segovia, and with Stan Getz introduced the Brazilian bossa nova to international audiences. He then proceeded to form a super guitar trio with Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis... Read more. Place our Musician ...
All About Jazz Musician News: Expanded toolkit and promotional services
Attn: Musicians We recently launched version 2 of the Jazz Near You app. It's vastly improved and is now compatible with Android and iOS—and it even runs on a Kindle Fire. We want to make sure your events look their absolute best in the app, so please make sure you've added a thumbnail image to your ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
All About Jazz is celebrating Julian “Cannonball" Adderley's birthday today! Both as the leader of his own bands as well as an alto and soprano saxophone stylist, Julian Edwin “Cannonball" Adderley was one of the progenitors of the swinging, rhythmically robust style of music that became known as hard-bop. Born September 15, 1928, into a musical ...
Jazz Near You App Feedback Wanted. Love it? Improve It? Tell us!
We recently released version 2 of the Jazz Near You app for Android and iOS. Downloads have been brisk at the Apple App Store—slow, but steady at the Google Play Store. If you haven't downloaded the Jazz Near You app, please give it a try by clicking one of the buttons below, then let us know ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Oliver Lake
All About Jazz is celebrating Oliver Lake's birthday today! Born in Marianna, Arkansas in 1942, Oliver moved to St. Louis at the age of two. He began drawing at the age of thirteen (and paints daily, using oil, acrylics, wood, canvas, and mixed media), and soon after began playing cymbals and bass drum in various drum ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Mel Torme
All About Jazz is celebrating Mel Torme's birthday today! Mel Torme was among the most enduring singers from the big-band era, maligned by some as the epitome of lounge singer, acclaimed by many more as one of a talented and serious vocalist. Legend has it that Torme began singing for his supper a Chicago restaurant when ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Brian Lynch
All About Jazz is celebrating Brian Lynch's birthday today! A respected insider within both the hardcore straight ahead and Latin Jazz communities, 2007 Grammy Award Winner Brian Lynch is as comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as he is swinging through advanced harmony with bebop maestro Phil Woods. A honored graduate ...
