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Jazz Musician of the Day: Matthias Bergmann

March 7, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Matthias Bergmann's birthday today! Trumpet and Flugelhorn Player Matthias Bergmann (born 1972 in Emden) moved to Cologne in 1997 after his studies at the Hilversum Conservatory/NL. He leads his own Quintett (CD Still Time - Jazz4ever 4789)and works in Duo Settings with Oliver Schroer on Churchorgan and Jürgen Friedrich on Piano... ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet John Kelman

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2013

I currently live in: Ottawa, Canada I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? After deciding to start writing about music in about 2001, and starting at smaller websites, I was approached by All About Jazz in late 2003, with the question: “We've ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Wes Montgomery

March 6, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Wes Montgomery's birthday today! Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (where he also died of a heart attack in 1968), Montgomery came from a musical family, in which his brothers, Monk (string bass and electric bass) and Buddy (vibraphone, and piano), were jazz performers. Although Wes was not skilled at reading ...

News: Website

Sign up and get the weekly Jazz Near You concert calendar announcement for free!

March 5, 2013

You can receive our free weekly Jazz Near You concert calendar email announcement by simply signing up at All About Jazz. If you are already a member and would like to receive our weekly announcement, go to your member account page, click “update," click the “Contact" tab, then enter your city and country (state and zip ...

News: Recording

Nonesuch Releases Joshua Redman’s "Walking Shadows" on May 7

March 5, 2013

Album produced by Brad Mehldau; features Redman on saxophones, Mehldau on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass & Brian Blade on drums; orchestral pieces conducted by Dan Coleman “Joshua Redman is a saxophonist of such intelligence and energy that you could probably place him in any musical setting, and he would find a way to make himself ...

News: Performance / Tour

Don Henley Set to Perform at The Paramount on April 3rd @ 8 pm

March 5, 2013

Today, The Paramount in downtown Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., announced that Don Henley - founder of the Eagles - is confirmed to rock the stage on April 3rd, 2013 @ 8pm. Tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime concert experience will go on sale to the general public through Ticketmaster & The Paramount Box Office at 10am this Friday, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: David Fiuczynski

March 5, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating David Fiuczynski's birthday today! Iconoclastic and prolific jazz-rock guitarist David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski, a jazz player who“doesn’t want to play just jazz”, has been hailed by the world press as an incredibly inventive guitar hero, who continues to deliver with music that is unclassifiable, challenging and invigorating. An innovative musician who has ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Shew

March 4, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Shew's birthday today! Bobby Shew, (born March 4th, 1941, Albuquerque, New Mexico) began playing the guitar at the age of eight and switched to the trumpet at ten. By the time he was thirteen he was playing at local dances with a number of bands and by fifteen had put ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Garrison

March 3, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Garrison's birthday today! Bassist Jimmy Garrison was the anchor in the classic John Coltrane Quartet, from 1961-\'66, which recorded all of its well-known albums on Impulse. Garrison\'s big, blunt sound, steady time and inventive counter lines were an elemental ingredient in the sound of that famous group. He actually fitted ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

March 2, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis' birthday today! Eddie Lockjaw Davis was one musician who provided a link from the big band era through to the soul jazz phenomenon of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Davis developed one of the most unmistakable tenor sax sounds in post war jazz. With a full bodied ...