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Jazz Musician of the Day: Donald Byrd

December 9, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Donald Byrd's birthday today! Trumpeter Donald Byrd was born in Detroit in 1932, his studies at Wayne State University (1954) were interrupted by military service, during which he played in an Air Force band. He then attended the Manhattan School of Music (MA in music education). At the same time he ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Smith

December 8, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Smith's birthday today! Born James Oscar Smith in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Smith was influenced by both gospel and blues. He first achieved prominence in the 1950s where his recordings became popular on jukeboxes before there were commonly used terms to describe his unique musical flavor. In the sixties and seventies ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Matthew Shipp

December 7, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Matthew Shipp's birthday today! Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly became one ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Brubeck

December 6, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Brubeck's birthday today! Brubeck\'s mother studied piano in England and intended to become a concert pianist; at home she taught piano for extra money. Brubeck was not particularly interested in learning by any particular method, but preferred to create his own melodies, and therefore avoided learning to read sheet music. ...

News: Obituary

Stan Tracey dies aged 86

December 6, 2013

Stan Tracey, a prime mover in British jazz for more than half a century, has died at the age of 86. The jazz pianist and composer had a keen musical intelligence and was renowned for Under Milk Wood, his 1968 suite based around Dylan Thomas's radio play. Tracey was born on December 30, 1926, in Denmark ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 9, 2013

December 5, 2013

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 261 282 -21 1 44 1 8 2 6 2 Rene Marie I Wanna Be Evil (Motema) 257 216 +41 2 46 2 4 3 1 3 Gregory Porter ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Enrico Pieranunzi

December 5, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Enrico Pieranunzi's birthday today! Born in Rome in 1949, Enrico Pieranunzi has long been one of the best-known and appreciated personalities on the European jazz scene. Pianist, composer, arranger, he has recorded more than seventy CDs under his own name, ranging from solo piano to trio, and from duet to quintet. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jim Hall

December 4, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Jim Hall's birthday today! Jim Hall, born in Buffalo, and educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. By 1960 Jim had arrived in New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, ...

Article: Website News

Help All About Jazz Support Jazz

by Michael Ricci
December 4, 2013

Dear friends, All About Jazz has been a leading advocate for jazz music since 1995. Longtime readers have watched us continuously transform our website over the past 18 years, keeping the spirit of the music firmly in mind along the way. We've also done our best to keep pace with technology while finding new ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Laurie Haines Reese

December 3, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Laurie Haines Reese's birthday today! Laurie is dedicated to creating new music that features the cello. Improvisation is an important part of music, a part that allows each individual a chance to speak the music that is in their heart. An accomplished classical musician, Laurie loves the variety in performing jazz, ...