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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Murphy

March 14, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Murphy's birthday today! Mark Murphy is one of the world\'s greatest — and hippest — jazz vocalists performing today. His coterie of fans includes tap dancer Gregory Hines, who spontaneously jumped up on stage at Mark\'s Las Vegas engagement in 1995 to join him for an impromptu duet. Legendary composer ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Haynes

March 13, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Haynes' birthday today! Roy Haynes was born in Boston, March 13, 1925, and was keenly interested in jazz ever since he can remember. Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie Christian inflected guitarist Tom Brown, bandleader Sabby Lewis, and Kansas City blues-shout alto ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Al Jarreau

March 12, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Al Jarreau's birthday today! Al Jarreau\'s unique vocal style is one of the world\'s most precious treasures. His innovative musical expressions have made him one of the most exciting and critically-acclaimed performers of our time with five Grammy Awards, scores of international music awards and popular accolades worldwide. It\'s not surprising ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby McFerrin

March 11, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby McFerrin's birthday today! Bobby McFerrin is one of the natural wonders of the music world. A ten-time Grammy Award winner, he is one of the world\'s best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned classical conductor, the creator of “Don\'t Worry Be Happy", one of the most popular songs of the ...

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No One Sets Out To Be A Smooth Jazz Musician

March 11, 2014

Look, I'm not going to lie to you. Nobody ever just woke up one morning and thought, “Of all the things possible in the vastness that is life, what I'd really like to do is play smooth jazz 250 nights a year." It just doesn't work that way. It's not something you can plan for—it's all ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke

March 10, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing along with recordings. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy in 1921, but the opportunity to ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ornette Coleman

March 9, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Ornette Coleman's birthday today! Early on in his career, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded an album entitled, The Shape of Jazz To Come. It might have seemed like an expression of youthful arrogance - Coleman was 29 at the time - but actually, the title was prophetic. Coleman is the creator ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dick Hyman

March 8, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Dick Hyman's birthday today! Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early \'50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 10, 2014

March 7, 2014

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote) 318 283 +35 7 58 1 5 2 3 2 Helen Sung Anthem For A New Day (Concord) 302 255 +47 8 56 2 6 3 4 3 Dianne Reeves Beautiful Life (Concord) 271 254 +17 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Ocaña

March 7, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Ocaña's birthday today! Dominican/Spanish composer and guitarist. Today he is one of the major exponents of contemporary guitar and also an innovator with the instrument. He performs concerts for 6 & 10 string guitars, guitars processed through delays and loops. From an early age, he began studying music in his ...