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Jazz Musician of the Day: Nesuhi Ertegun

November 26, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Nesuhi Ertegun's birthday today! “Nesuhi Ertegun spent most of his lifetime working at Atlantic Records and associated labels. He joined Atlantic in 1956, nine years after its founding by his brother Ahmet and Herb Abramson. Nesuhi initially developed Atlantic’s album department and built up the label’s extensive catalog of jazz long-players. ...

News: TV / Film

New Short Film "Trane and Miles" Celebrates Jazz Music Legends

November 26, 2013

Take a journey to 1959 and walk the miles with two of the most iconic jazz musicians of all time, men whose work became the soundtrack of an era. Writer-director Scott Essman of Visionary Cinema captures the brilliant, untold story of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, starring Ricco Ross as Coltrane and Travis Hinson as Davis. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Paul Desmond

November 25, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Paul Desmond's birthday today! He is revered for the pure, gentle tone of his alto saxophone, and the elegant lyricism of his improvisations. For seventeen years he was the lead soloist in the most commercially successful jazz combo ever, the Dave Brubeck Quartet. In an era that worshipped the frenetic, bebop ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Teddy Wilson

November 24, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Teddy Wilson's birthday today! His airy, effortless style, with its emphasis on lightly accompanied right-hand melody, was a key element in the transition from swing to bebop, and many modern jazz pianists took Wilson\'s approach as their starting point. His early recordings were percussive and forceful, but as he matured his ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Claude Marc Bourget

November 23, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Claude Marc Bourget's birthday today! Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising improvisations, with the frays influences of modern jazz and classical, often virtuosos and where resound as in memory the landscape of the music of the 20th century. “An energetic music, extremely dense, as well as uncommon harmonic ...

News: Website

Take the Jazz Near You Survey

November 22, 2013

If you attend live jazz events, please take our ten question / two minute Jazz Near You survey. >> Click here to get started Your participation is much appreciated! Thank you! About Jazz Near You Jazz Near You is a website, a weekly calendar of events email, an app, an embeddable widget and a series of ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

November 22, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today! The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati ...

News: Recording

Nonesuch Releases Debut Recording from Pat Metheny Unity Group, Kin (←→), on February 4

November 22, 2013

Metheny won 20th Grammy Award with Unity Band members saxophonist Chris Potter, drummer Antonio Sanchez, and bassist Ben Williams; multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi joins Group for new album Group launches 44-city North American Tour February 3 “From rapid-fire post-bop cascades through country-inflected ballads to exultant synth-guitar anthems…a group of blazing virtuosi with musical intelligence to match...” —Guardian ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 25, 2013

November 21, 2013

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 308 342 -34 1 53 1 10 2 4 2 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 302 262 +40 3 53 2 6 3 3 3 Ahmad Jamal Saturday ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Coleman Hawkins

November 21, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Coleman Hawkins' birthday today! Coleman Hawkins single-handedly brought the saxophone to the prominence in jazz that the instrument enjoys. Before he hit the scene, jazz groups had little use for the instrument. One player (forgot who) said, “with all due respect to Adolph Sax, Coleman Hawkins invented the saxophone." Hawkins, or ...