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Nick Gianni and Arlen Hart at the Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being on March 12 and March 26
The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Well-being will present a unique meditation series that combines Shinnyo guided meditation with live jazz music performances. Led by Shinnyo meditation guide Eitaro Hayashi, with accompaniment by Nick Gianni on saxophone and Arlen Hart on keyboards, the session will introduce live music and the relaxation benefits of meditation. Music has ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby McFerrin
All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby McFerrin's birthday today! Bobby McFerrin is one of the natural wonders of the music world. A ten-time Grammy Award winner, he is one of the world\'s best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned classical conductor, the creator of “Don\'t Worry Be Happy", one of the most popular songs of the ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke
All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing along with recordings. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy in 1921, but the opportunity to ...
Lew Soloff dies at 71; trumpet player for Blood, Sweat and Tears
Lew Soloff, a trumpet player who was an early member of Blood, Sweat and Tears and whose jazz career included performances with his own ensembles and with Gil Evans, Ornette Coleman, Chuck Mangione, Maynard Ferguson and other giants of the genre, has died. He was 71. Soloff suffered an apparent heart attack as he walked down ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Ornette Coleman
All About Jazz is celebrating Ornette Coleman's birthday today! Early on in his career, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded an album entitled, The Shape of Jazz To Come. It might have seemed like an expression of youthful arrogance - Coleman was 29 at the time - but actually, the title was prophetic. Coleman is the creator ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dick Hyman
All About Jazz is celebrating Dick Hyman's birthday today! Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early \'50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 9, 2015
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Eddie Henderson Collective Portrait (Smoke Sessions)328279+4946214232Justin Kauflin Dedication (Jazz Village)266251+1545117343Jamie Cullum Interlude (Blue Note)256237+1925126424Allan Harris Black Bar Jukebox (Love Productions)249255-624927555Charles McPherson The Journey (Capri)226215+1125154686Quincy Davis Songs In The Key Of Q (In The Know)209192+1715017797Sam Most New Jazz Standards (Summit)200184+1614474878Jim Snidero Main Street (Savant)197201-425175969Joe Alterman Georgia Sunset (Joe Alterman Music)196206-1054965101510Dave Bass NYC Sessions (Whaling City Sounds)182151+31442105111011Jeremy Pelt ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany
All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today! Dan Papirany is a Jazz pianist and composer. He is based in Bundaberg, Australia. While living in New Zealand Dan studied drums for two years with Roger Sellers and then changed his major to Piano studying with Leigh Jackson. In 1999 Dan graduated from Massey University in ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Wes Montgomery
All About Jazz is celebrating Wes Montgomery's birthday today! Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (where he also died of a heart attack in 1968), Montgomery came from a musical family, in which his brothers, Monk (string bass and electric bass) and Buddy (vibraphone, and piano), were jazz performers. Although Wes was not skilled at reading ...
Paris Named Host City for International Jazz Day 2015
Jazz musicians from around the world will gather this April in Paris for International Jazz Day, an event UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock hopes will bring an uplifting “positive message" to a city still reeling from last month's terrorist attacks. Hancock and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova announced Wednesday that Paris had been selected to be the ...
