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All About Jazz Musician Database Tops 70,000 Profiles

January 30, 2015

All About Jazz, stewards of the largest jazz database on the internet, is now home to over 70,000 jazz musician profiles. A veritable who's who directory, the Jazz Musician Database includes musician profiles ranging from legendary figures like Miles Davis, to today's stars like Pat Metheny, to emerging artists like Ambrose Akinmusire. Musician/band profiles include biographical ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Expands Advertising Service

January 30, 2015

All About Jazz has added a handful of new options to their already robust list of promotional services to help advertisers reach the largest collection of jazz fans and professionals on the internet. In addition to standard banner advertising, new album Showcase, and a geo-targeted Jazz Near You email sponsorship, AAJ has recently added or improved ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Eldridge

January 29, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Eldridge's birthday today! Roy David Eldridge was a jazz trumpet player in the Swing era. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, resulted in him sometimes being seen as the link between Louis Armstrong-era swing music and Dizzy Gillespie-era bebop. Roy\'s rhythmic power to swing a ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Derek Bailey

January 29, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Derek Bailey's birthday today! Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation musician, he began playing the guitar at the age of ten, going on to study with John Duarte among others. As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ronnie Scott

January 28, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Ronnie Scott's birthday today! The son of a musician, Scott became a saxophonist in his teens. Eventually, as the owner of the UK\'s most famous jazz club, his name was virtually synonymous with jazz in the country. Working on the Atlantic oceanliners in the late 1940s, Scott got to hear modern ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Hutcherson

January 27, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Hutcherson's birthday today! Early Years Bobby Hutcherson was born in Los Angeles, California on 27 January 1941. He grew up in Pasdena. Hutcherson was exposed to jazz from an early age, and his family had some connections to the local jazz scene. (His brother was a high-school friend of Dexter ...

News: Recording

John Coltrane - "So Many Things: The European Tour 1961"

January 26, 2015

"There are so many things to be considered in making music", John Coltrane told an interviewer during his first European tour as a bandleader in the autumn of 1961. “Many things on which I don't think I've reached a final conclusion." Indeed, the music Coltrane made on this trip took audiences to ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Stephane Grappelli

January 26, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Stephane Grappelli's birthday today! Stephane Grappelli (originally surname was spelled with a \'Y\') would have earned himself a place in Jazz History books if only for his important role in the Quintette of the Hot Club of France, featuring the dazzling virtuosity of Django Reindhart. Grappelli\'s violin was the perfect foil ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Golson

January 25, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Golson's birthday today! Multitalented and internationally famous jazz legend, - a composer, arranger, lyricist, producer - and tenor saxophonist of world note, Benny Golson was born in Philadelphia, PA on January 25, 1929. Raised with an impeccable musical pedigree, Golson has played in the bands of world famous Benny Goodman, ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 26, 2015

January 24, 2015

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111David Hazeltine I Remember Cedar (Sharp Nine)259240+1914717222Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderly Legacy Band Live at Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club (Cellar Live)220199+2144528363Jeff Hamilton Trio Great American Songs (Capri)213165+4823637444Kenny Barron & Dave Holland The Art Of Conversation (Impulse!)197190+70401105335Chip White Family Dedications and More (Dark Colors)19295+97134452656James Farm City Folk (Nonesuch)183180+3440510737Jimmy Greene Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue)170192-22237188128Greg Abate Quartet ...