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Jazz Musician of the Day: Christian Scott

March 31, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Christian Scott's birthday today! On March 30, 2010 star trumpeter Christian Scott will release Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, his highly anticipated, all-new 10-song collection. First single and Thom Yorke (Radiohead) cover \'The Eraser\' available now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-eraser-single/id354084005 Yesterday You Said Tomorrow was recorded at the renowned Van Gelder Studio in ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Stryker

March 30, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Stryker's birthday today! Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 25 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive ...

News: Music Industry

The day the music ... spied?

March 30, 2015

THREE-FIFTHS OF Chris Aschman's jazz quintet managed to fit onto the tiny stage upstairs at Jose Pistola's, where the crimson glow makes musicians look like they're playing in Amsterdam's red-light district. Aschman, a 29-year-old trumpet player, stayed on the floor, next to the saxophonist. Then, the bassist reached overhead and turned off the TV and the ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Michael Brecker

March 29, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Michael Brecker's birthday today! Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option, Brecker began studying clarinet, then ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 30, 2015

March 28, 2015

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks121Russell Malone Love Looks Good On You (HighNote)333285+4866113242Eddie Henderson Collective Portrait (Smoke Sessions)309282+2705517333Steve Turre Spiritman (Smoke Sessions)287284+385933414Jacky Terrasson Take This! (impulse!)280289-905414555Charles McPherson The Journey (Capri)274219+55350576176Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 (Random Act)218159+5965363767Justin Kauflin Dedication (Jazz Village)193196-3142110878Dave Bass NYC Sessions (Whaling City Sounds)192195-31435892389Dave Stryker Messin' With Mr. T (Strikezone)1912+18936409110910Jamie Cullum Interlude (Blue Note)189191-21422910710Sam Most New Jazz Standards (Summit)189195-624277121812Rez ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Thad Jones

March 28, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Thad Jones' birthday today! Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 - August 21, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten (an older brother was pianist Hank Jones and a younger brother was drummer Elvin Jones). Thad Jones ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sarah Vaughan

March 27, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Sarah Vaughan's birthday today! In the 1940s, when most women singers adorned big bands as stage attractions rather than legitimate members of jazz ensembles, Sarah Vaughan, along with her predecessor Ella Fitzgerald, helped elevate the vocalist\'s role as equal to that of the jazz instrumentalist. A woman known for her many ...

News: Book / Magazine

Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience

March 26, 2015

A book by Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Louie Bellson, Lennie Tristano, Tony Bennett, Buddy DeFranco, Flip Phillips, and Joe Lovano: These are just some of the hundreds of musicians of Italian descent whose talents have enriched jazz. Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica is more than just a book about ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: James Moody

March 26, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating James Moody's birthday today! For over six decades, saxophone master James Moody has serenaded lovers with his signature song Moody\'s Mood for Love an improvisation on the chord progressions of I\'m in the Mood for Love. Born in Savannah, Georgia on March 26, 1925, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, James ...

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Listen to This Miles Davis and "Bitches Brew"

March 25, 2015

THE FIRST CLOSE CRITICAL TREATMENT OF THE ALBUM THAT SHOOK JAZZ WITH ITS ELECTRIC SOUND AND ROCK-INFLUENCED STYLE Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Miles Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz ...