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Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Coleman
All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Coleman's birthday today! Steve began playing music just days before his 14th birthday as a freshman at South Shore High School on the south side of Chicago. His first instrument was violin but later that year he switched to the alto saxophone. For three years Steve studied the basics of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Muhal Richard Abrams
All About Jazz is celebrating Muhal Richard Abrams' birthday today! Muhal Richard Abrams..... World renowned pianist and composer has been in the forefront of the contemporary music scene for well over forty years. Muhal is a co-founder of The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), founder of The AACM School of Music and President ...
Guitarist Jimmy Ponder (1946-2013)
By Colter Harper I first met Jimmy when he was teaching at a jazz camp for high school students in Pittsburgh. I was 15, recently turned on to Wes Montgomery, and trying to make sense of the music. Ponder was the first guitarist I had heard in person who embodied the music. He poured himself through ...
Jimmy Ponder: 1946-2013
Soul-Jazz guitarist Jimmy Ponder was well known to serious jazz lovers for his recordings as a leader and appearances as a sideman on 80 albums. His unique bluesy sound, which incorporated Wes Montgomery's approach of playing octaves with the thumb, has influenced other guitarists. Ponder's playing was described as aggressive rhythm-and-blues figurations with swift and lucid ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Michael Franks
All About Jazz is celebrating Michael Franks' birthday today! Over the languorous course of 33 years and 16 albums, Michael Franks has mesmerized an international legion of fans with his one-of-a-kind artistry. Seamlessly weaving lyrics of stunning sensuality, wit, reflection and literary eloquence over music that tastefully utilizes top shelf shadings of jazz, soul, pop, chamber ...
Future of Music Coalition and Jazz Forward Coalition host informal roundtable in Washington DC on October 28th
This is a save the date to join Future of Music Coalition and Jazz Forward Coalition next month in Washington DC for an informal roundtable on the future of jazz advocacy. Hosted by FMC and facilitated by JFC, this is a brown bag lunch bringing together artists, educators, presenters, promoters, advocates, managers, funders, and policymakers to ...
100,000 Events Submitted to Jazz Near You Since 2012 Launch
Jazz Near You surpassed 100,000 jazz events submitted to our website since it first launched this time last year. The Jazz Near You platform has grown steadily over the last 12 months to include nearly 250 websites, a weekly local events calendar, an app for iPad and iPhone, a widget (by city, by venue and by ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack McDuff
All About Jazz is celebrating Jack McDuff's birthday today! Brother Jack McDuff, was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. The instrument at the heart of the soul jazz style was the Hammond B-3 organ, usually in the company of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Hamiet Bluiett
All About Jazz is celebrating Hamiet Bluiett's birthday today! The finest baritone saxophonist of the 1970s and beyond, Hamiet Bluiett has demonstrated a huge, impressive sound, superb technique, and a mastery of his horn in every register. In his solos, he can provide an array of tonal colors and harmonic options. A first-rate free player who\'s ...
Impromptu Jazz Composition at the Neighborhood House on September 27th
Friday, September 27th; 7:45pm The American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter (ACF Philadelphia) will present a site-specific musical challenge to three prominent Philadelphia jazz composer/performers in front of a live audience: to produce artistic explorations of various aspects of the Neighborhood House and Christ Church. The musical and inspirational elements for these works will be suggested on ...
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