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Jazz Musician of the Day: Mark Murphy

March 14, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Murphy's birthday today! Mark Murphy is one of the world\'s greatest -- and hippest -- jazz vocalists performing today. His coterie of fans includes tap dancer Gregory Hines, who spontaneously jumped up on stage at Mark\'s Las Vegas engagement in 1995 to join him for an impromptu duet. Legendary composer ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Haynes

March 13, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Haynes' birthday today! Roy Haynes was born in Boston, March 13, 1925, and was keenly interested in jazz ever since he can remember. Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie Christian inflected guitarist Tom Brown, bandleader Sabby Lewis, and Kansas City blues-shout alto ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Al Jarreau

March 12, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Al Jarreau's birthday today! Al Jarreau\'s unique vocal style is one of the world\'s most precious treasures. His innovative musical expressions have made him one of the most exciting and critically-acclaimed performers of our time with five Grammy Awards, scores of international music awards and popular accolades worldwide. It\'s not surprising ...

News: Festival

36th Annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Announces 2013 Lineup

March 12, 2013

SAT, JUNE 29 - SUN, JUNE 30 Tony Bennett, Buddy Guy, David Sanborn & Bob James, McCoy Tyner Quartet with special guest John Scofield, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kevin Eubanks, Gregory Porter and Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Gamak, among others The 36th annual Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the most celebrated and longest running ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby McFerrin

March 11, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby McFerrin's birthday today! Bobby McFerrin is one of the natural wonders of the music world. A ten-time Grammy Award winner, he is one of the world\'s best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned classical conductor, the creator of “Don\'t Worry Be Happy", one of the most popular songs of the ...

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Follow All About Jazz on Pinterest

March 10, 2013

All About Jazz posts a new photo daily to our Pinterest page. If you're a fan of jazz photography, please follow us. If you're a professional photographer, join our growing community and upload your photos here. We'll consider them for our Photo of the Day feature. Place the photo of the day on your website or ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke

March 10, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing along with recordings. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy in 1921, but the opportunity to ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ornette Coleman

March 9, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Ornette Coleman's birthday today! Early on in his career, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded an album entitled, The Shape of Jazz To Come. It might have seemed like an expression of youthful arrogance - Coleman was 29 at the time - but actually, the title was prophetic. Coleman is the creator ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dick Hyman

March 8, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Dick Hyman's birthday today! Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early \'50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Carl L. Hager

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2013

I currently live in: Los Angeles, CAI joined All About Jazz in: 2009What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a writer and editor most of my life, and I love jazz. One day after I'd been reading All About Jazz for a few months, I inquired to ...