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Jazz Musician of the Day: Alan Broadbent
All About Jazz is celebrating Alan Broadbent's birthday today! Alan Broadbent was born in Auckland, New Zealand and in 1966, at the age of 19, received a Downbeat Magazine scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1969 he was asked to join Woody Herman\'s band as his pianist and arranger for 3 years. ...
Moers Residency a Good Fit for Hayden Chisholm
By Phillip Woolever With theatrical drama, dynamic performing colleagues and a flair for winding wind and wordplay, Hayden Chisholm, this year's Improviser in Residency, adds a unique dimension to his twelve-month tenure at Moers 2015. The Moers residency was initiated as part of the festival's cultural, community commitment. Despite some recent cutbacks, Moers ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Charles Mingus
All About Jazz is celebrating Charles Mingus' birthday today! One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bassist, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church— choir and ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Slide Hampton
All About Jazz is celebrating Slide Hampton's birthday today! Slide Hampton\'s distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz. At the age of 12 he was already touring the Midwest with the Indianapolis-based Hampton Band, led by his father and comprising other members of his musical family. By 1952, at the age of 20, he ...
2015 Art of Cool Jazz Festival
By K. Shackelford The 2015 Art of Cool Jazz Festival is a journey into the immense vastness of jazz music with a roster of world class musicians. Operating in only its second year, the three day jazz dreamland, offers a superb mix of old and new artists that illuminate the ways that jazz penetrates many forms ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Avishai Cohen
All About Jazz is celebrating Avishai Cohen's birthday today! Bassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat, and was declared one of the 100 Most Influential Bass Players of the 20th Century by Bass Player Magazine, is renowned around the world ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 20, 2015
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 1 Dave Stryker Messin' With Mr. T (Strikezone) 346 289 +57 3 54 1 4 2 1 2 Russell Malone Love Looks Good On You (HighNote) 328 365 -37 3 61 1 6 3 7 3 Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 (Random Act) ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Hal Galper
All About Jazz is celebrating Hal Galper's birthday today! With over 90 recordings to his credit, 30 as a leader in his own right, pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author and touring artist, Hal Galper is best known for his work with Chet Baker, Connonball Adderley, John Scofield and the Phil Woods Quintet. His recordings as a ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Sherman
All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Sherman's birthday today! After nearly 30 years of recording, composing, and performing with countless orchestras, jazz artists, and vocal artists, vibraphonist /composer Mark Sherman a Yamaha performing artist and a Vic Firth artist, has a beautiful quintet featuring Joe Magnarelli on trumpet, Allen Farnham on piano, Dean Johnson on bass, ...
All About Jazz's Big Bopper Banner Service Improves
All About Jazz's Big Bopper is a fixed location, persistent display ad, sized at a whopping 2,000 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. It anchors every page at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You. As part of the Big Bopper service, we also include a 300x250 pixel banner in the slide-out window on every page. ...
