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Jazz Musician of the Day: Percy Heath
All About Jazz is celebrating Percy Heath's birthday today! The American jazz musician and bassist with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Percy Heath, began his musical apprenticeship in 1946, after Air Force service. It was just the right time. Though the double bass had always been used sporadically in jazz, performers capable of advancing both its rhythmic ...
Partner with Jazz Near You
Your friends at Jazz Near You are looking to develop win-win solutions with businesses and organizations that present jazz music and support jazz culture by exploring strategic partnerships ranging from media to technology. To date, Jazz Near You has partnered with national and international advocacy and catalyst organizations, ticketing services, event aggregators, festivals, venues, tech companies, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Ellington
All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Ellington's birthday today! By the time of his passing, he was considered amongst the world’s greatest composers and musicians. The French government honored him with their highest award, the Legion of Honor, while the government of the United States bestowed upon him the highest civil honor, the Presidential Medal of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie
All About Jazz is celebrating Blossom Dearie's birthday today! Born 28 April 1928, East Durham, New York, USA. A singer, pianist and songwriter, with a “wispy, little-girlish" voice, Dearie is regarded as one of the great supper club singers. Her father was of Scottish and Irish descent; her mother emigrated from Oslo, Norway. Dearie is said ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Smith's birthday today! Award-winning Scottish saxophonist-composer-educator Tommy Smith is a creative force in improvised music performing in settings from solo to symphonic concerts and is one of Europe’s leading musicians. He has recorded 24 solo albums as a leader for Blue Note, Linn and his own label Spartacus Records and ...
Connect with All About Jazz / Jazz Near You at JazzAhead! 2015
Dear JazzAhead! 2015 conference goers! All About Jazz and Jazz Near You's affable Maxim Micheliov will be on hand for this year's conference, connecting with old friends and making new ones. Max and I are looking to partner with jazz presenting organizations, jazz event aggregators, and jazz catalyst and advocacy organizations to further support local jazz ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Giuffre
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Giuffre's birthday today! Reedman and composer Jimmy Giuffre was born in Dallas, TX. He started his musical education at age 9 learning the clarinet and within few years he was proficient enough to give solo clarinet recitals at local functions. After high school he attended North Texas State University receiving ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 27, 2015
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks141Steve Turre Spiritman (Smoke Sessions)343277+6626117212Dave Stryker Messin' With Mr. T (Strikezone)308346-3865815323Russell Malone Love Looks Good On You (HighNote)297328-3125617454Jose James Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music Of Billie Holiday (Blue Note)251263-12852445145Harold Mabern Afro Blue (Smoke Sessions)250180+70165252636Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 (Random Act)244285-4135337767Jacky Terrasson Take This! (impulse!)232260-28042188108Marcus Miller Afrodeezia (Blue Note)218225-724385999Eliane Elias Made In Brazil (Concord)212228-1614694101310Steve Gadd ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald
All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today! Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Henderson
All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Henderson's birthday today! The tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson was born on April 24, 1937 in a small city called Lima Ohio midway between Dayton and Toledo. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Lima in a family of 15 children where he was exposed to a variety of musical styles. ...
