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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wayne Krantz

July 26, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Wayne Krantz's birthday today! Ex-sideman with Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham and others, has made six albums under his own name since 1991; three on the Enja label ("Signals", “Long to Be Loose" and “2 Drink Minimum"), one on the Alchemy label ("Separate Cages") and, most recently, the self-produced CDs ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 28, 2014

July 25, 2014

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks161Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden Last Dance (ECM)279217+6284413242Mike LeDonne I Love Music (Savant)278244+3415625323Bobby Hutcherson Enjoy The View (Blue Note)268275-765424414Jimmy Cobb The Original Mob (Smoke Sessions)264280-1605115535Louis Hayes Return Of The Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions)254267-13050196156Sean Jones im.pro.vise (Mack Avenue)249171+7865062757Theo Croker Afro Physicist (OKeh)243243014536878Dena DeRose We Won't Forget You ... An Homage To Shirley Horn (HighNote)237203+34246759129Joshua Redman Trios Live ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brian Blade

July 25, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Brian Blade's birthday today! “I remember when I first read the words hanging in a frame on my grandma Rosa\'s wall. The serenity prayer was something I couldn\'t understand until almost thirty years later, but now after experiencing some peaks and valleys of life, those words ring in my ears with ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Billy Taylor

July 24, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Billy Taylor's birthday today! Billy Taylor encompassed that rare combination of creativity, intelligence, vision, commitment and leadership, qualities that made him one of our most cherished national treasures. The distinguished ambassador of the jazz community to the world-at-large, Dr. Billy Taylor\'s recording career spans nearly six decades. He has also composed ...

News: Career

Open Call to all Jazz Artists! Kimmel Center Now Accepting 2014-15 Jazz Residency Program Applications

July 24, 2014

Open Call to all Jazz Artists in Philadelphia! Kimmel Center Now Accepting Online Applications for 2014-15 Kimmel Center Jazz Residency Program Open Call to all Jazz Artists in Philadelphia! Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is now accepting online submissions from talented jazz musicians interested in participating in the 2014-15 Kimmel Center Jazz Residency – an ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Lacy

July 23, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Lacy's birthday today! Steve Lacy, one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time and a New England Conservatory faculty member since fall 2002, died Friday [June 4th, 2004] at New England Baptist Hospital. The jazz master who once defined his profession as “combination orator, singer, dancer, diplomat, poet, dialectician, ...

News: Music Industry

It's not just David Byrne and Radiohead: Spotify, Pandora and how streaming music kills jazz and classical

July 23, 2014

More musicians are taking aim at the rates paid by Spotify and Pandora, and warning whole genres are in danger After years in which tech-company hype has drowned out most other voices, the frustration of musicians with the digital music world has begun to get a hearing. We know now that many rockers don’t like it. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Al Di Meola

July 22, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Al Di Meola's birthday today! Al Di Meola holds the most prestigious guitar awards (of any guitarist in the world) from the highest rated guitar poll in the world, Guitar Player Magazine. He has been known throughout the world for the past two and a half decades as one of the ...

News: Technology

Blue Note Records Launches New Blue Note 75 App For iPad

July 22, 2014

Blue Note Records proudly presents the Blue Note 75 app – a ground-breaking new app available exclusively for iPad that celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the legendary jazz label which has represented The Finest In Jazz Since 1939. Now available exclusively on the App Store, the app presents a new digital format – developed in partnership ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

July 21, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Clark's birthday today! Conrad Yeatis “Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at ...