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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Parker

August 29, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday today! The only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker was one of the most important and influential saxophonists and jazz players of the 1940’s. When Parker was still a child, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where jazz, blues and gospel music were flourishing. His ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 1, 2014

August 29, 2014

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Cyrus Chestnut Midnight Melodies (Smoke Sessions)246280-3415617222Bobby Hutcherson Enjoy The View (Blue Note)238270-3205219333Sean Jones im.pro.vise (Mack Avenue)233221+1225817454Cyrille Aimée It's A Good Day (Mack Avenue)217201+16552445225Bobby Broom My Shining Hour (Origin)205160+4544653666Barbara Morrison I Love You, Yes I Do (Savant)200199+1148467117Fred Hersch Floating (Fred Hersch Music)197184+1324476898Henry Butler-Steven Bernstein and The Hot 9 Viper's Drag (Impulse!/Universal)195193+214777949Theo Croker Afro Physicist (OKeh)189215-26040211101910Rodney Whitaker When ...

News: Performance / Tour

Legendary Jazz Influencers Reign in the 2014-15 Season with Jazz at the Kimmel Ticketed and Free Events

August 28, 2014

ALL STAR SITTIN’ IN JAM SESSION Kicks off the Jazz Season with Ticketed Performance Featuring Trombone Legend JEFF BRADSHAW, Jazz Vocalist LAURIN TALESE, Spoken Word Star URSULA RUCKER, Singer Songwriter SOMI, Hip-Hop Producer Kokayi, and Electro-Pop Chanteuse KATE FAUST Season Long Celebration of Jazz Features Kurt Elling, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis with ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Goldings

August 28, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Goldings' birthday today! With his signature Hammond organ style and versatility on many keyboards, Boston native Larry Goldings has traversed not only the wide spectrum of jazz where he is perhaps best known, but also the worlds of funk, pop, and electronic/alternative music. High in demand as a sideman, Goldings\' ...

News: Festival

Saxophonist Joshua Redman on the issues that face jazz musicians

August 28, 2014

Tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman has been a star since he burst onto the jazz scene in his early 20s, winning the Thelonious Monk competition in 1991 and launching his prolific recording career in 1993. At 45, he remains a charismatic musician with broad stylistic interests, but with a blues sensibility and a fundamental allegiance to mainstream ...

News: Performance / Tour

Roulette Announces Details Of Fall 2014 Performance Season

August 28, 2014

Thirty-Four Experimental Music, Dance and Intermedia Performances in the Fall 2014 Season Season Highlights To Include: THE SUN RA ARKESTRA directed by Marshall Allen 29 SpaceTime: Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman [DANCEROULETTE] Sally Silvers: Actual Size John Zorn’s Cobra! Henry Threadgill Annie Gosfield / JACK Quartet: ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lester Young

August 27, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Lester Young's birthday today! Lester “Prez" Young was one of the giants of the tenor saxophone. He was the greatest improviser between Coleman Hawkins and Louis Armstrong of the 1920s and Charlie Parker in the 1940s. From the beginning, he set out to be different: He had his own lingo; In ...

News: Job Posting

DC Jazz Festival Announces A Search For Artistic Director

August 26, 2014

BACKGROUND After 10 years of annual, multi-day jazz programming coupled with a year round education program, the Board of the DC Jazz Festival has launched a search for a new artistic director. The Festival is recognized as a leading arts organization in the Mid-Atlantic, having garnered praise far and wide. The Artistic Director will work in ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Branford Marsalis

August 26, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Branford Marsalis' birthday today! NEA Jazz Master, renowned Grammy Award®-winning saxophonist and Tony Award® nominee composer Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered instrumentalists of his time. The three-time Grammy Award® winner has continued to exercise and expand his skills as an instrumentalist, a composer, and the head of Marsalis ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Pat Martino

August 25, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Pat Martino's birthday today! When the anesthesia wore off, Pat Martino looked up hazily at his parents and his doctors and tried to piece together any memory of his life. One of the greatest guitarists in jazz. Martino had suffered a severe brain aneurysm and underwent surgery after being told that ...