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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Coryell

April 2, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Coryell's birthday today! Musician magazine named him to its list of 100 greatest guitarists alive today, and after releasing more than 60 albums as a leader and playing on dozens more as a sideman in the last 40 years, Larry Coryell\'s definitely earned that honor. Exploring the sound of the ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Jordan

April 1, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Jordan's birthday today! Duke Jordan was a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz pantheon. Jordan was regarded as one of the great early bebop pianists, the sound that he helped to create in the postwar era was something new, and it remains a cornerstone ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Christian Scott

March 31, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Christian Scott's birthday today! On March 30, 2010 star trumpeter Christian Scott will release Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, his highly anticipated, all-new 10-song collection. First single and Thom Yorke (Radiohead) cover \'The Eraser\' available now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-eraser-single/id354084005 Yesterday You Said Tomorrow was recorded at the renowned Van Gelder Studio in ...

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Jazz Near You Weekly Email Newsletter Improved - Set your current location

March 30, 2014

We reengineered how we email the weekly Jazz Near You events calendar to our members. Delivery takes less time and requires significantly less resources. We also changed how we identify member location, so if you are a member, please sign in and check your Jazz Near You location settings as the city associated with your member ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Stryker

March 30, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Stryker's birthday today! Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 20 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Michael Brecker

March 29, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Michael Brecker's birthday today! Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option, Brecker began studying clarinet, then ...

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Jazz Musician Database Retooled and Relaunched at All About Jazz

March 28, 2014

All About Jazz's musician section, home to nearly 58,000 profiles, was redesigned for improved navigation and to shine a more intense spotlight on features including musician tracking, musician discovery, crowdfunding support, teaching credentials, and a musician's SoundCloud player and Bandcamp player. “A musician's profile is center to their activities at All About Jazz and is fully ...

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"Favorites" Calendar Added To Jazz Near You

March 28, 2014

Jazz Near You members can now create a custom calendar based on the musicians they track at All About Jazz. Each time a user tracks a musician, the musician's events, regardless of their location, will appear in the user's favorites calendar. So, if you're a Wayne Shorter fan and decide to track him, then Wayne Shorter's ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 31, 2014

March 28, 2014

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote) 289 318 -29 1 60 1 8 2 2 2 Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh) 271 273 -2 2 52 2 9 3 5 3 Dave Stryker Eight Track (Strikezone) 254 251 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Thad Jones

March 28, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Thad Jones' birthday today! Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 - August 21, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten (an older brother was pianist Hank Jones and a younger brother was drummer Elvin Jones). Thad Jones ...