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Jazz Musician of the Day: Red Garland

May 13, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today! Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 15, 2023

May 12, 2023

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 in the United States. Enjoy! TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Taj Mahal Savoy (Stony Plain) 301 253 +48 1 46 1 6 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

May 12, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today! Bassist Gary Peacock played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry}, {{Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley

May 11, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today! Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Ponder

May 10, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Ponder's birthday today! An excellent guitarist, and sometimes vocalist, with a soulful sound and the ability to uplift any funky jazz date, Pittsburgh native Jimmy Ponder has appeared on many recordings during his long career, over 80 as a sideman and 15 as a leader. Ponder, a self taught musician, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Wilson

May 9, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Wilson's birthday today! Anthony Wilson is a guitarist and composer known for a nuanced body of work that moves fluidly across genres. Wilson has long been curious about blurring borders and finding the place where where style and possibility intersect. Wilson’s first recording— Anthony Wilson (1997) — featured a nine-piece ...

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San Diego's High School Ensemble Wins Coveted Jazz Award

May 8, 2023

San Diego's Young Lions Jazz Conservatory (YLJC) is proud to announce that New Soil Ensemble has won the prestigious Downbeat Student Music Awards for High School Honors Ensemble Outstanding Performance. The DownBeat awards are considered among the most coveted student honors in the music industry. This is the 46th annual Student Music Awards which were launched ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Keith Jarrett

May 8, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Keith Jarrett's birthday today! Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times- universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and as a composer who has ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Ford

May 7, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Ford's birthday today! One of the most exciting truths in the jazz world is that within every top sideman is a solo artist itching to emerge from the shadows and into the forefront. Longtime McCoy Tyner saxophonist Joe Ford's stunning and diverse Bluemoon debut, Today's Nights, proves that such an ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Paul Dunmall

May 6, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Paul Dunmall's birthday today! After turning professional at seventeen and touring Europe for one year with progressive rock group Marsupilami he moved to America and lived there for three years playing with many musicians including Alice Coltrane and toured with Johnny Guitar Watson for one year. On his return to the ...