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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Monheit
All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Monheit's birthday today! “I\'m one of those people who go just a little too crazy over Christmas," Jane Monheit cheerfully admits. “So in my head, I\'ve been planning and conceptualizing this album for years. I was just waiting for the right time." The “right time" now has arrived for The ...
Frank Wess, 91, Saxophonist and Flutist With the Basie Band, Dies
Frank Wess, who helped popularize the flute as a jazz instrument in the 1950s and ’60s with the Count Basie Orchestra, where he was also a standout saxophone soloist, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 91. The cause was a heart attack related to kidney failure, said his longtime companion, Sara Tsutsumi. Mr. Wess was ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Elling
All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Elling's birthday today! Grammy winner Kurt Elling is among the world\'s foremost jazz vocalists. He has won every DownBeat Critics Poll for the last thirteen years and has been named “Male Singer of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span. Every one of Elling\'s ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Antonio Sanchez
All About Jazz is celebrating Antonio Sanchez's birthday today! Antonio Sanchez was born in Mexico City November 1st, 1971. At age five, he discoreved an irresistible attraction towards the drumset. After a few years of private study he started performing in a wide variety of musical situations ranging from rock to jazz and latin to fusion ...
Frank Wess dies at 91; key player in major jazz ensembles
Though the saxophonist never became as famous as other musicians of his time, he was a force in making the flute a jazz instrument. Long before jazz pianist Billy Taylor became world-famous, he planned in high school to switch to saxophone. But then he heard the new kid in school—Frank Wess—play the horn. “He's the reason ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 4, 2013
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 300 286 +14 4 53 1 7 2 3 2 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 273 251 +22 2 54 2 6 3 2 3 Steve Turre The Bones Of Art (HighNote) 255 263 -8 3 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bob Belden
All About Jazz is celebrating Bob Belden's birthday today! One of the most adventurous arrangers of the 1990s and 2000s, Bob Belden took the music of Puccini, Prince, and (with the most success) Sting, and turned it into jazz. After graduating from the University of North Texas in 1978, he was with Woody Herman\'s Orchestra for ...
ECM Records and Vijay Iyer announce collaboration
Vijay Iyer recently recorded his first album for ECM at New York’s Avatar Studio, with Manfred Eicher producing. While Iyer has been recognized predominantly for his fresh approaches to jazz, ECM now proposes to document a broader scope of his work, which will highlight his compositions and multi-media pieces, as well as improvisation. The first collaboration, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Clifford Brown
All About Jazz is celebrating Clifford Brown's birthday today! He was the most brilliant trumpet player of his generation, an original and memorable composer, a dynamic stage presence and one of the authentic legends of modern jazz. Clifford Brown was born October 30, 1930 in Wilmington, Delaware. As a young high school student Brown began playing ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims
All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! John Haley “Zoot" Sims was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him. ...
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