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News: Recording

5-Time Global Music Award Winning Vocalist & Trumpeter Johnny Summers Releases Piano Sessions: Volume 2 With Legendary Canadian Pianist Tommy Banks

October 4, 2015

Most musicians say they are lovers of great songs, but very few are able to show it in the way that Johnny Summers does! With the new album, Johnny Summers: Piano Sessions – Volume 2, 2015 winner of three Global Music Awards including Best Male Vocalist and Album, Johnny Summers shows why he has become Canada’s ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches SoundCloud and Bandcamp Builder Services for Musicians

October 4, 2015

Your friends at All About Jazz have years of experience building both SoundCloud and Bandcamp pages and we'd like to help our musician community establish a presence on each while enjoying the benefits that these platforms have to offer: audio distribution and a music store. About our Bandcamp Service All About Jazz will build your Bandcamp ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Von Freeman

October 3, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today! Earl Lavon Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra\'s band in the early \'50s. During that period, he also played with his musical brothers, drummer Bruz (Eldrige) Freeman and guitarist George Freeman, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Howard Roberts

October 2, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Howard Roberts' birthday today! Howard Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1929. He began playing guitar at age 8 and by age 15 was playing gigs in and around the Phoenix area. In 1950 (at age 20) Howard decided to move to Los Angeles, and through hard work and the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Holland

October 1, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Holland's birthday today! Amid endless choices, the sound of a Dave Holland bass line compels attention. A master of tone and rhythm, the bassist, composer, and bandleader is now in his fifth decade as a performer and his music possesses a rich and kaleidoscopic history. One of Holland\'s mentors, the ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 5, 2015

October 1, 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! TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks131Christian McBride Trio Live At The Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)255237+1825615212Eric Alexander The Real Thing (HighNote)248242+625515323Cécile McLorin Salvant For One To Love (Mack Avenue)231241-1015219454Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Buddy Rich

September 30, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy Rich's birthday today! Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for music through the dedication of his life to the art. His was a career that spanned seven decades, beginning when Rich was 18 months old and continuing until his death in ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jean-Luc Ponty

September 29, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty's birthday today! Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undispute master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern music. Ponty was born in a family of classical ...

News: Obituary

Delaware Water Gap jazz legend Phil Woods dies

September 29, 2015

Jazz legend Phil Woods died Tuesday morning, according to Bensing-Thomas Funeral Home in Stroudsburg. He was 83 years old. Woods, who lived in Delaware Water Gap since 1976 and is one of the founders of the prestigious DWG Celebration of the Arts jazz and arts festival, recorded with jazz visionaries as Quincy Jones, Clark Terry, Thelonious ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Kirkland

September 28, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Kirkland's birthday today! Beginning his career as a teacher of classical music, Kenny Kirkland next became a jazz musician. Later he emerged from his jazz chrysalis as a practitioner of exotic pop/rock music and finally shed his wings to follow the mundane but financially more stable profession of studio musician. ...