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News: Recording

I Am in the World and the World Is in Me; Paula Santoro New Release

October 15, 2013

Celebrated Brazilian Vocal Stylist Paula Santoro Steps Into the International Limelight with Mar do Meu Mundo (The Sea in My World) release: Nov. 19th, a Marriage of Jazz Freedom and Modern Brazilian Sounds Containing an Upbeat, Moving, and Very Personal Vision It’s not often that a new star emerges on the international music scene with a ...

News: Recording

Fretless Frailing Brings The Balkans Home on Jeni Jol

October 15, 2013

For Boston-based musician Tev Stevig, an epiphany occurred when he first heard the fretless guitar. For years, Stevig had explored American music from old time folk music to jazz, as well as the sounds of the Balkans and the Middle East. He wanted to bring together all of his musical passions and with this instrument he ...

News: Recording

Never-Released Thelonious Monk Concert Film "Paris 1969" Due Out Nov. 26 On Blue Note

October 15, 2013

BLUE NOTE TO RELEASE THELONIOUS MONK PARIS 1969 NEVER-BEFORE OFFICIALLY RELEASED CONCERT FILM IS A FASCINATING LATE-CAREER DOCUMENT OF THE LEGENDARY JAZZ PIANIST & COMPOSER IN PERFORMANCE WITH HIS QUARTET PLUS SPECIAL GUEST PHILLY JOE JONES PARIS 1969 TO BE RELEASED AS CD/DVD, CD, VINYL, DIGITAL ALBUM & DIGITAL LONG-FORM VIDEO ON NOVEMBER 26 Blue Note ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Garrison Fewell

October 14, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Garrison Fewell's birthday today! “The guitarist formerly known as one of Boston\'s most eloquent inside players has become one of its leading experimenters," writes Boston Phoenix\'s Jon Garelick, who included Fewell\'s ensemble, the Variable Density Sound Orchestra, on his best of 2009 list. Fewell, a professor at Berklee College since 1977, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Konitz

October 13, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Konitz's birthday today! Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chris Botti

October 12, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Chris Botti's birthday today! Trumpeter Chris Botti is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer, and a charismatic performer who-- since the release of his first solo album in 1995--has created a series of recordings which have made him a virtual genre-of-one in the realm of contemporary jazz while at the same ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Art Blakey

October 11, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Art Blakey's birthday today! Born in 1919, Art Blakey began his musical career, as did many jazz musicians, in the church. The foster son of a devout Seventh Day Adventist Family, Art learned the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age. But as Art himself told ...

News: TV / Film

Icons Among Us: Jazz In The Present Tense, Filmbuff And The Angel City Jazz Festival Announce The Hulu Release Of The Four-Part Series Broadcast

October 10, 2013

The trans-media platformʼs digital release will coincide with four theatrical screenings at The Angel City Jazz Festival on Oct. 6, 12 & 13. Also, featured at the festivalʼs technology panel will be a preview of the Icons Among Us: Online Digital Archive Los Angeles, CA: ICONS AMONG US: JAZZ IN THE PRESENT TENSE, the critically acclaimed ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 14, 2013

October 10, 2013

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 289 289 0 6 59 1 4 2 4 2 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 249 227 +22 4 48 2 3 3 3 3 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 231 241 -10 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Thelonious Monk

October 10, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Thelonious Monk's birthday today! With the arrival Thelonious Sphere Monk, modern music-- let alone modern culture--simply hasn’t been the same. Recognized as one of the most inventive pianists of any musical genre, Monk achieved a startlingly original sound that even his most devoted followers have been unable to successfully imitate. His ...