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News: Advocacy

Bill Clinton to receive award for jazz advocacy

May 20, 2014

Former President Bill Clinton will get a chance to play his saxophone when the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz honors him with its Founder’s Award. The Monk Institute announced Monday that Clinton will receive the award at a Nov. 9 concert at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater ...

News: Video / DVD

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight to be released on Blu-Ray for the first time ever on June 17

May 20, 2014

Tuesday, June 17 will mark the first Blu-ray release of Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight, the enrapturing film that documents the guitar legend’s August 1970 performance before an audience of 600,000. It was the largest show attendance-wise he would ever play and came just 18 days before his untimely death. ...

News: Website

Jazz Image of the Day Reach Expands to Facebook and Twitter

May 19, 2014

All About Jazz handpicks a photo, painting, or illustration daily and features it as our image of the day. In addition to highlighting the image in our Image of the Day box, we also present the last 60 in a montage at the bottom of our gallery pages. All About Jazz pushes the image of the ...

News: Website

Attn: Musicians! Friendly URLs are back!

May 19, 2014

As part of the Jazz Musician Database relaunch project, we've reimplemented friendly URLs to greatly improve usability and accessibility. The friendly URL is easier to type and remember. Search engines like them too. For quick access to a musician profile, simply append the musician's name to the All About Jazz URL like this: musicians.allaboutjazz.com/patmetheny musicians.allaboutjazz.com/samrivers musicians.allaboutjazz.com/milesdavis ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Fortune

May 19, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Fortune's birthday today! When critics speak of Sonny Fortune, names like Coltrane, Cannonball, Young, Bechet, Hawkins and Parker are mentioned. Quite a legacy - but well deserved - for Sonny Fortune embodies all of the finest qualities of those late, great musicians: hard work, dedication to his art, and exceptional ...

News: Obituary

Mark Flugge | 1962-2014: Jazz pianist was busy performer, teacher

May 19, 2014

As his hearing grew worse and the distortion in his head louder, Mark Flugge struggled to perform the jazz music he loved. The double-punch proved particularly painful for the lifelong pianist. He battled nonstop tinnitus and hearing loss — as well as related depression — for nearly two years. On Sunday, the Bexley pianist took his ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kai Winding

May 18, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Kai Winding's birthday today! Kai Winding - trombone (1922 - 1983) Trombonist Kai Christen Winding (pronounced ki-win-ding) was one of the founding fathers of be-bop music and truly one of the finest-ever jazz trombonists. As a sideman to bop’s reigning kings “ Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and ...

News: Opinion

Here are jazz's 12 most important musicians

May 18, 2014

Herbie Hancock — pianist, composer and maker of musical revolutions — is coming to San Francisco this week (May 16-18) for a series of sold-out shows at SFJazz. With his visit in mind, wheels began to turn: Why not create a list of the dozen greatest living jazz musicians? Hancock would be on it; that was ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jackie McLean

May 17, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Jackie McLean's birthday today! John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean was an alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City. His father, John Sr., who died in 1939, played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw\'s orchestra. After his father\'s death, his musical education was continued by his godfather, by his stepfather, who ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 19, 2014

May 16, 2014

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks121Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)320252+6835514212Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)283278+515216353 Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)223213+1024035474David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)220210+1034746535Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)213232-1954938646Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant)196231-3514519767David Fathead Newman & The Tilden Webb Trio Cellar Groove (Cellar Live)193211-180423108128 Verve Jazz Ensemble East End Sojourn ...