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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 20, 2015

April 18, 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) ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Hal Galper

April 18, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Sherman

April 17, 2015

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, ...

News: Website

All About Jazz's Big Bopper Banner Service Improves

April 16, 2015

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. ...

News: Recording

Minas Releases Most Important Album of Its Career, Symphony in Bossa

April 16, 2015

Ten years in the making. Over 60 musicians. Seven different recording studios. Symphony in Bossa is a monumental achievement by Philadelphia-based Brazilian jazz group Minas. Written specially for Minas for big band and strings by the late Bill Zaccagni (Bobby Rydel, Patty LaBelle), Symphony in Bossa merges north and south with big band jazz and Brazilian ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Esbjorn Svensson

April 16, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Esbjorn Svensson's birthday today! e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favor of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz- venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, ...

News: Recording

Frank Sinatra's Timeless Music Celebrated Worldwide With New, Career-Spanning "Ultimate Sinatra" Centennial Collections From Capitol/UME

April 15, 2015

Ultimate Sinatra CD, Digital, 2LP and 4CD/Digital Deluxe Editions Present Key Recordings Spanning Sinatra's Years with Columbia, Capitol and Reprise, Together for the First Time Los Angeles, CA: In celebration of Frank Sinatra’s centennial year, new, career-spanning collections of the entertainment icon’s timeless music have been compiled for worldwide CD and digital release on April 21 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bessie Smith

April 15, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Bessie Smith's birthday today! “Empress of the Blues” She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how it should be done. Bessie Smith, born on Apr. 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was one of ten children. Her ...

News: Performance / Tour

BossaBrasil Marcos Valle & Carlos Lyra "Bossa Nova History At Birdland" From May 26- 30

April 14, 2015

Delta Air Lines presents BossaBrasil Marcos Valle and Carlos Lyra With Patricia Alvi (vocals), Renato Massa (drums), Itaiguara Brandao (bass) Jorge Continentino (sax & flute) Forty years after it swept the world, Bossa Nova stands as as one of the enduring musical forms of the 20th century! MARCOS VALLE, legendary Brazilian Composer/Keyboardist says, “CARLOS LYRA is ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gene Ammons

April 14, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Ammons' birthday today! Eugene “Jug" Ammons was a jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons. Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18. He became a member of the Billy Eckstine ...