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News: Opinion

"Fifteen years of utter bollocks": how a generation’s freeloading has starved creativity

August 25, 2014

Arguments for digital piracy are drivel – it's high time we steered away from this cultural cliff, argues author Chris Ruen. Driving down civilisation road, it takes effort to grapple with the ramifications of our choices along the way. Out of basic self-interest, we often ignore our own effects upon the world. You throw your rubbish ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

August 24, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today! Mimi Fox is at the peak of her career. Named “Rising Star" in DownBeat\'s 2003 Critics Poll, she is also profiled in that magazine\'s special feature, “66 Hot 6-Stringers: DownBeat\'s Look at the Guitarists Making Today\'s Scene," which presents “66 guitarists in the worlds of jazz, blues ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches Three New Advertising Services: Video of the Day, Soundcloud Player of the Week and Big Bopper

August 23, 2014

All About Jazz has developed three highly effective advertising opportunities by leveraging YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter and its tremendous website reach. Video of the Day Presented at the very top of media.allaboutjazz.com (and stretching 1,000 pixels wide, an advertiser's video is featured for one day on the media home page, on the All About Jazz home ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

August 23, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today! Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Malachi Favors

August 22, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Malachi Favors' birthday today! Malachi Favors - acoustic bass Malachi Favors was the mainstay bassist in a remarkable group that combined traditional elements of jazz and blues, West African music, chanting, ritual, abstract sound and silence. The Art Ensemble of Chicago was one of the landmark groups of experimental jazz. But ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 25, 2014

August 22, 2014

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Cyrus Chestnut Midnight Melodies (Smoke Sessions)280288-865816232Bobby Hutcherson Enjoy The View (Blue Note)270242+2815318323Sean Jones im.pro.vise (Mack Avenue)221262-4125616454Theo Croker Afro Physicist (OKeh)215222-71392105215Cyrille Aimée It's A Good Day (Mack Avenue)201160+4185153646Barbara Morrison I Love You, Yes I Do (Savant)199228-2944845777Mike LeDonne I Love Music (Savant)198208-10043297227Joe Magnarelli Lookin' Up! (Posi-Tone)198158+40239749109Henry Butler-Steven Bernstein and The Hot 9 Viper's Drag (Impulse!/Universal)193190+33507610610Jimmy Cobb The Original ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Count Basie

August 21, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Count Basie's birthday today! Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally with Fats Waller. He made his professional debut as an accompanist for ...

News: Music Industry

Jazz St. Louis Announces $10 Million Capital Campaign for New Jazz Center

August 21, 2014

St. Louis, MO: From Scott Joplin’s playing of Ragtime in 1895 to Miles Davis playing Be-Bop in 1944 and to the dozens of other jazz greats who hail from the Gateway City, St. Louis has played an important and pivotal role in the history of jazz. Today, Jazz St. Louis—one of the best known and longest ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Enrico Rava

August 20, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Enrico Rava's birthday today! Enrico Rava, born in Trieste in 1939, is undoubtedly the most internationally acknowledged Italian jazzman. In forty years of his career as trumpet player, and composer, he has produced more than ninety recordings, tweny-five of which as a leader. Being a great admirer of Miles Davis and ...

News: Video / DVD

Jim Henson's "Drums West" Animation

August 20, 2014

Watch How Jim Henson Animated Jazz With Tiny, Dancing Strips of Paper Before he achieved fame with the Muppets, Jim Henson, a skilled animator as well as a puppeteer, was making all sorts of innovative work out of his home studio, in Bethesda, Md. Around 1961, he made the papercut animation above, which visualized jazz drummer ...