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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gene Krupa

January 14, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Krupa's birthday today! Gene Krupa was easily one of the most colorful personalities of the big band era. Despite his outrageous stage persona, Krupa was a serious and disciplined musician whose vision changed the role of drummer forever and who helped standardize the jazz drum kit. Eugene Bertram Krupa was ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Egan

January 14, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Egan's birthday today! Over the past 30 years, Mark Egan’s ability to groove, perfectly complement the music in any situation and solo expressively has made him one of the most in-demand bass players on the international music scene. While racking up credits with the likes of the Pat Metheny Group, ...

News: Event

Charlie Haden Memorial And Celebration Of His Life Tuesday, January 13, 2015 @ 7pm @ The Town Hall NYC

January 13, 2015

Family and friends, including many jazz greats, will come together to celebrate the life of CHARLIE HADEN (1937-2014), one of the most innovative and influential bassists in the history of jazz. A three-time Grammy winner, Haden has received many awards and accolades throughout his five-decade career including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the NEA Jazz Master ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Pass

January 13, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Pass' birthday today! Joe Pass almost didn\'t make it as a musician due to his early battle with drug addiction. But following a successful rehab at Synanon and a recording session with fellow recovered musicians entitled Sounds of Synanon, the guitarist was signed by Dick Bock to the Pacific Jazz ...

News: Recording

Two New Songs by Ethan Hawke from Golden Globe-winning "Boyhood" available now

January 13, 2015

Nonesuch Releases Two Original Songs Written and Performed by Ethan Hawke from Richard Linklater’s Golden Globe-winning Boyhood Film soundtrack also available on Nonesuch Boyhood awarded three Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture—Drama; Best Director—Motion Picture; and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture “A landmark achievement and easily the year’s most ...

News: Recording

Cassandra Wilson "Coming Forth By Day" to be released April 7

January 13, 2015

PRODUCED BY NICK LAUNAY (NICK CAVE) + FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE BAD SEEDS, T BONE BURNETT, STRING ARRANGEMENTS BY VAN DYKE PARKS Cassandra Wilson will release an otherworldly homage to Billie Holiday, Coming Forth by Day (Legacy Recordings) April 7, 2015, on what would have been Holiday’s 100th birthday. Wilson, who has drawn inspiration from Billie ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann

January 12, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Jay McShann's birthday today! “The Last of the Blue Devils” Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie, established what came to be known as the Kansas City sound: blues rooted jazz driven by swinging horns laid over a powerful ...

News: Obituary

Jim Galloway Remembered (1936 - 2014)

January 12, 2015

By Ted O'Reilly Jim Galloway (born James Braidie Galloway July 28, 1936 in Kilwinning, Scotland) died peacefully at home on December 30, 2014 surrounded by loved ones. An internationally renowned jazz musician, one of the few specializing on the soprano sax (along with alto, tenor, baritone and occasional clarinet), Jim lived a full life doing what ...

News: Festival

First Tucson Jazz Festival features Bacharach, Reeves, Cobb, Childs, DeFrancesco, more

January 12, 2015

By Patricia Myers The HSL Tucson Jazz Festival, a 13-day event from January 16-28 will feature both national and Arizona musicians, headlined by 86-year-old composer Burt Bacharach, 85-year old drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb, and four 2015 Grammy-nominated musicians. Organist Joey DeFrancesco received a Best Jazz Instrumental nomination for Enjoy The View ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Ritenour

January 11, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Ritenour's birthday today! b. Lee Mack Ritenour, 11 January 1952, Los Angeles, CA, USA. The prolific Ritenour has established himself as one of the world\'s leading jazz guitarists with a series of accessible albums over three decades. Starting at the age of 16, Ritenour played his first session with The ...