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New All About Jazz Service: Musician Page Update

June 15, 2015

All About Jazz's latest service will create or update a musicians page for only $30. The one-time tune-up includes any or all of the following updates: Thumbnail image Instrument Date of birth Location Biography Press quotes Awards Contact information Links (including website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) Up to six video players Embedded Soundcloud player (if applicable) ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner

June 15, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today! Born in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to Johnson). He never learned to read music, probably because it was never a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Miller

June 14, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Miller's birthday today! Marcus Miller, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York. He came from a musical family and was influenced early on by his father, a church organist and choir director, as ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Doc Cheatham

June 13, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Doc Cheatham's birthday today! One of the very last survivors of the early days of jazz, trumpeter Adolphus “Doc" Cheatham attracted attention from the historically- inclined right up to his death in 1997 at the age of 91. His career recapitulated much of the history of jazz as a whole: he ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Corea

June 12, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Corea's birthday today! An NEA Jazz Master, 16-time Grammy winner, prolific composer and undisputed keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. In 2010, Chick entered the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame and was named ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 15, 2015

June 11, 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! TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks131Cyrus Chestnut A Million Colors In Your Mind (HighNote)299247+5226114212Harold Mabern Afro Blue (Smoke Sessions)282321-3905619323Joey Alexander My Favorite Things (Motema Music)272258+1405026434Cory Weeds Condition Blue (Cellar Live)258247+1114636565Vincent Herring ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Shelly Manne

June 11, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Shelly Manne's birthday today! Shelly Manne - drums (1920 - 1984) As a jazz drummer, studio musician, bandleader and businessman, Shelly Manne was one of the most prolific instrumentalists of modern times. “I’ve really had the best of both worlds,” he said in 1983. “I’ve kept busy playing jazz, and between ...

News: Obituary

Ornette Coleman, Who Widened Jazz and Changed Its Course, Dies at 85

June 11, 2015

Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said. Mr. Coleman widened the options in jazz and helped change its course. Partly through ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joao Gilberto

June 10, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Joao Gilberto's birthday today! Born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931, in the town of Juázeiro in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. His father was a wealthy merchant who insisted that all of his seven children receive an education. Gilberto defied his father\'s wishes however, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Barron

June 9, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Barron's birthday today! Kenny Barron\'s unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms is what inspired “The Los Angeles Times" to name him “one of the top jazz pianists in the world" and “Jazz Weekly" to call him “The most lyrical pianist of our ...