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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Heath
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Heath's birthday today! Jimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger. Jimmy is the middle brother of the legendary Heath Brothers (Percy Heath/bass and Tootie Heath/drums), and is the father of Mtume. He has performed with nearly all the jazz greats of ...
Jost Project to Perform at First Jazz Near You House Concert
Philadelphia, PA: The Jost Project with Paul Jost, Tony Miceli and Kevin MacConnell will appear at the home of All About Jazz and Jazz Near You founder, Michael Ricci on Friday, October 24th. The house concert program represents a new direction for Jazz Near You which plans to develop additional performance opportunities for musicians while creating ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 27, 2014
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Gerry Gibbs and the Thrasher Dream Trio We're Back (Whaling City Sounds)317258+5955815222Mark Elf Mark Elf Returns 2014 (Jen Bay, Inc.)250255-505419373Stanley Clarke Band Up (Mack Avenue)223200+2334336444Akiko Commencement (At)221238-17255485125Orrin Evans Liberation Blues (Smoke Sessions)191167+2414059636Chick Corea Trilogy (Concord)188246-5814737797Cookers Time And Time Again (Motema)184174+1024475888Paul Carr B3 Sessions (DC-NY) (PCJ Music)179182-3046889199Bobby Broom My Shining Hour (Origin)178146+3203731110510Jason Moran All Rise: A Joyful ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Odean Pope
All About Jazz is celebrating Odean Pope's birthday today! Odean Pope was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina to musical parents who rooted him in the sounds of the Southern Baptist Church. After moving to Philadelphia at the age of ten, his lifelong study of music began in earnest and was buttressed by The Graniff School of ...
Presenter? Identify Your Events at Jazz Near You
If you represent a presenting organization and submit your events to Jazz Near You, then identify your organization as the presenter on your event's detail page. To do this, first add your organization's information here. Once added, select your organization's name from the “Presenter" auto-completion box on the event submission form. When you do this, Jazz ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dianne Reeves
All About Jazz is celebrating Dianne Reeves' birthday today! Recognized as one of jazz\'s pre-eminent vocalists, Grammy winner Dianne Reeves is one of the most significant singers in jazz. While her singing is steeped in tradition, her rhythmic virtuosity and improvisational ease are breathtaking. Reeves has won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for each ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Bunnett
All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Bunnett's birthday today! Jane Bunnett has become one of the foremost jazz musicians in Canada, and has gained recognition around the world for her improvising talents, technical proficiency, and writing and band leading abilities. Born and educated in Toronto, she trained as a classical pianist from 1975-78 (attaining Grade 10 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dizzy Gillespie
All About Jazz is celebrating Dizzy Gillespie's birthday today! John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie was one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of the 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz. Nicknamed “Dizzy" because of his zany on-stage antics, Gillespie, a brass virtuoso, set new standards for trumpet players with his ...
Jazz Near You House Concerts Kicks Off with The Jost Project on October 24
An International Launch Takes Place In Philadelphia Area Jazz Near You Home Concerts With The Jōst Project — October 24, 2014, 7:00-9:00pm. Tickets available at Closeup.fm or EventBrite. Philadelphia, PA – According to Michael Ricci, founder and owner of All About Jazz and Jazz Near You, the largest jazz web-based network in the world, jazz musicians ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jelly Roll Morton
All About Jazz is celebrating Jelly Roll Morton's birthday today! The city of New Orleans has the distinction of being the ‘birthplace of jazz’ so its appropriate that in New Orleans in or around 1885 to 1890 would be born the self-proclaimed “inventor of jazz”. Ferdinand Joseph Lemott (Lamothe) and his story is one of mystery, ...
