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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Hargrove

October 16, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Hargrove's birthday today! Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as one of this generation's premier players in jazz and beyond. Hargrove was born in Waco, TX on October 16, 1969. Inspired by the gospel music he heard in church on Sundays and the R&B and funk music that played ...

Article: The Big Question

Not a jazz fan? Tell us why.

by Michael Ricci
October 16, 2014

We have folks telling us why they love jazz over here. And yeah, we know, odd question coming from a website like All About Jazz, but we're hoping you'll share this page with your jazz-hating friends so we can better understand why they don't dig the music like us. If you have thoughts ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Charlap

October 15, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Charlap's birthday today! Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a musical family. His father, Moose Charlap, was a Broadway composer and songwriter whose credits included the scores to Peter Pan, The Conquering Hero, Whoop-up, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Kelly. His mother, Sandy Stewart, is a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Garrison Fewell

October 14, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Garrison Fewell's birthday today! “The guitarist formerly known as one of Boston\'s most eloquent inside players has become one of its leading experimenters," writes Boston Phoenix\'s Jon Garelick, who included Fewell\'s ensemble, the Variable Density Sound Orchestra, on his best of 2009 list. Fewell, a professor at Berklee College since 1977, ...

News: Recording

David Bowie to release new "Jazz-Oriented" single

October 14, 2014

Bowie has teamed up with the Maria Schneider Orchestra to release his first new material since 2013 comeback album The Next Day David Bowie has revealed he has teamed up with a leading jazz orchestra for his new single. The track, called “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," is under wraps until it is premiered ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Konitz

October 13, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Konitz's birthday today! Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form ...

News: Education

Wynton Marsalis Leads Juilliard’s Jazz Program

October 13, 2014

By Peter Monaghan Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter, has a new role that is likely to expand his influence on the direction and public perception of jazz: director of the jazz-studies program at Juilliard School of Music. In July Mr. Marsalis replaced Carl Allen, a drummer, as leader of the program at his alma mater. His appointment ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Allen

October 12, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Harry Allen's birthday today! Gene Lees writes, “Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, \'My technique, Al Cohn\'s ideas, and Zoot\'s time.\' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen." BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Art Blakey

October 11, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Art Blakey's birthday today! Born in 1919, Art Blakey began his musical career, as did many jazz musicians, in the church. The foster son of a devout Seventh Day Adventist Family, Art learned the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age. But as Art himself told ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You Partners with Live Jazz Danmark to Distribute Danish Jazz Events Worldwide

October 10, 2014

Jazz Near You has partnered with Live Jazz Danmark to distribute Danish jazz events through the Jazz Near You platform to its subscribers worldwide. “Live Jazz Danmark is the premiere jazz events aggregator in Demark and represents an ideal first partner for Jazz Near You's event aggregation and redistribution program," stated Jazz Near You Founder, Michael ...