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News: Obituary

Herb Wong, jazz icon and educator, dies at 88

April 21, 2014

Easter Sunday this year saw the passing of Herb Wong, 88, a long-time Menlo Park resident renowned internationally as a jazz expert and educator. A mysterious box sparked Mr. Wong's lifelong fascination with jazz. As young boys, he and his brother Elwood had just moved with their parents to Stockton when a package arrived on the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Avishai Cohen

April 20, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Avishai Cohen's birthday today! Bassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat, and was declared one of the 100 Most Influential Bass Players of the 20th Century by Bass Player Magazine, is renowned around the world ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Amy Lee

April 19, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Amy Lee's birthday today! Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger Amy Lee has been on the national/ international music scene since 1990. Her newly released solo CD titled USE ME marks her 2nd solo album and is currently being sold exclusively at her website Amy LeeSax.com. The accomplished musicians backing Amy on ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Hal Galper

April 18, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Hal Galper's birthday today! With over 90 recordings to his credit, 30 as a leader in his own right, pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author and touring artist, Hal Galper is best known for his work with Chet Baker, Connonball Adderley, John Scofield and the Phil Woods Quintet. His recordings as a ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 21, 2014

April 18, 2014

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote) 259 300 -41 0 45 1 11 2 10 2 Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant) 258 218 +40 3 53 2 5 3 19 3 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema) 254 181 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Sherman

April 17, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Sherman's birthday today! After nearly 30 years of recording, composing, and performing with countless orchestras, jazz artists, and vocal artists, vibraphonist /composer Mark Sherman a Yamaha performing artist and a Vic Firth artist, has a beautiful quintet featuring Joe Magnarelli on trumpet, Allen Farnham on piano, Dean Johnson on bass, ...

News: Festival

Grammy U Teams With Terence Blanchard For New Orleans Jazz Fest May 4

April 17, 2014

GRAMMY U Students From Mancini Institute To Perform With The Legendary Jazz Musician SANTA MONICA, Calif. — GRAMMY U— a Recording Academy program created to prepare college students interested in pursuing a career in the music industry — announced today their partnership with GRAMMY-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard during the famed New Orleans Jazz ...

News: Performance / Tour

JLCO Hosts: Christian McBride & Kurt Rosenwinkel

April 17, 2014

LCO premieres new arrangements of McBride and Rosenwinkel’s works Rose Theater, May 23 & 24, 8pm New York, NY – On May 23–24, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents its second JLCO Hosts concerts featuring a collaborating between the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and two of contemporary jazz’s finest artists. Music director Wynton ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Esbjorn Svensson

April 16, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Esbjorn Svensson's birthday today! e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favor of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz- venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Woodlawn Cemetery Partners with Jazz at Lincoln Center to Present Free Concert Honoring Jazz Legends

April 16, 2014

Performance by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on June 11 Features Compositions by Those Memorialized at Woodlawn and Commemorates the Cemetery’s 150th Anniversary and Historic Ties to Jazz Greats Bronx, NY: On June 11 at 7:00pm, The Woodlawn Cemetery will partner with Jazz at Lincoln Center to present a free concert, featuring the ...