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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jeff Beck
All About Jazz is celebrating Jeff Beck's birthday today! Jeff Beck isn\'t your typical guitar legend. His goal, in fact, is to make you forget that he plays guitar. “I don\'t understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound," says Beck."Finding ways to use the same guitar ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Donald Harrison
All About Jazz is celebrating Donald Harrison's birthday today! Donald Harrison is being called one of the most important musicians of the new millennium by CBS Sunday Morning. A list of his accomplishments shows that he has developed into a musical category unto himself. In the classic jazz genre, he is the originator of the Nouveau ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Hermeto Pascoal
All About Jazz is celebrating Hermeto Pascoal's birthday today! Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer who transcends category. Hermeto often uses unconventional instruments such as teapots, children\'s toys, found objects, and—sometimes, without harming them—live animals. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, where the musicians burble ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Eric Reed
All About Jazz is celebrating Eric Reed's birthday today! When you think of hard-driving swing, daring expression, sophistication and elegance in artistry, formidable technique and a thunderous sound, there are only a very small handful of contemporary pianists you think of and one of them is most assuredly ERIC REED. But don’t think of him as ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Eric Dolphy
All About Jazz is celebrating Eric Dolphy's birthday today! Eric Allan Dolphy was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto players to rise to prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 23, 2014
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)280288-815319222Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)260269-9051111333Louis Hayes Return Of The Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions)256250+6255354254Theo Croker Afro Physicist (OKeh)226143+8384742555David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)223209+14139311646JC Stylles Blakey Grease (American Showplace Music)221220+145046767Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)206208-2041210878Eric Reed The Adventurous Monk (Savant)197201-414649999Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band ...
Earth Wind & Fire Experience Completes Line-Up For Love Supreme Jazz Festival
Two weeks until the UK’s only major green-field jazz festival returns to Glynde Place The line-up for Jazz FM's Love Supreme Jazz Festival is now complete thanks to the addition of the Earth Wind & Fire Experience featuring five-time Grammy-winning original member Al McKay. McKay will line-up alongside a host of international stars including Jamie Cullum, ...
Horace Silver dies at 85; pioneering jazz pianist and composer
Horace Silver, the prolific jazz pianist and composer who cofounded the legendary Jazz Messengers, pioneered the genre known as hard bop and mentored scores of musicians, has died. He was 85. Silver died Wednesday at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., of natural causes, according to his son, Gregory. Through classic compositions such as “Song for ...
Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead
Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and bandleader who was one of the most popular and influential jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, died on Wednesday at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 85. His death was announced by Blue Note Records, the company for which he recorded from 1952 to 1979. After a ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: John Hollenbeck
All About Jazz is celebrating John Hollenbeck's birthday today! John Hollenbeck\'s versatility as a percussionist and composer is revealed in a body of work that challenges countless boundaries. Performances with Fred Hersh, Kenny Wheeler and Bob Brookmeyer have showcased Hollenbeck\'s melodic and sensitive small-group jazz drumming. His unique approach to big band work is evident as ...
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