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All About Jazz Relaunches Popular Articles and Similar Artist Pages

February 1, 2013

The most popular articles and album reviews page and the most recommended articles and album reviews page are back! To access them, click the “Home" link (in the top left), click “Articles" on the menu bar, then click “Most Read" from the dropdown list. Here's the direct link. We also launched the new “Similar Artists" page. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joshua Redman

February 1, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Joshua Redman's birthday today! Joshua Redman was born February 1, 1969, in Berkeley, California. By the time of his birth, his father, noted saxophonist Dewey Redman, had moved to New York and was playing with Ornette Coleman. Redman\'s only contact with his father was hearing his records around the house, and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Hackett

January 31, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Hackett's birthday today! Bobby Hackett, one of nine children, was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. At an early age he played the ukulele and by the time he was twelve played guitar and violin, and had bought his first cornet. He left high school after his freshman year ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Eldridge

January 30, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Eldridge's birthday today! Roy David Eldridge was a jazz trumpet player in the Swing era. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, resulted in him sometimes being seen as the link between Louis Armstrong-era swing music and Dizzy Gillespie-era bebop. Roy\'s rhythmic power to swing a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Derek Bailey

January 29, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Derek Bailey's birthday today! Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation musician, he began playing the guitar at the age of ten, going on to study with John Duarte among others. As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ronnie Scott

January 28, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Ronnie Scott's birthday today! The son of a musician, Scott became a saxophonist in his teens. Eventually, as the owner of the UK\'s most famous jazz club, his name was virtually synonymous with jazz in the country. Working on the Atlantic oceanliners in the late 1940s, Scott got to hear modern ...

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"My" menu item added to All About Jazz and Jazz Near You navigation bar

January 27, 2013

We added a “My" option to the navigation bar. From it, you can access your MY AAJ page, update your member account information, access and manage your photos, and access your musician profiles, your articles, your business listings and your events. More navigation, usability and visual improvements are on the way! For more All About Jazz ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Hutcherson

January 27, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Hutcherson's birthday today! Early Years Bobby Hutcherson was born in Los Angeles, California on 27 January 1941. He grew up in Pasdena. Hutcherson was exposed to jazz from an early age, and his family had some connections to the local jazz scene. (His brother was a high-school friend of Dexter ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Stephane Grappelli

January 26, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Stephane Grappelli's birthday today! Stephane Grappelli (originally surname was spelled with a \'Y\') would have earned himself a place in Jazz History books if only for his important role in the Quintette of the Hot Club of France, featuring the dazzling virtuosity of Django Reindhart. Grappelli\'s violin was the perfect foil ...

News: Advocacy

John Coltrane House Planning Grant Underway

January 25, 2013

The Preservation Alliance has been awarded a preservation planning grant from the Heritage Philadelphia Program of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage to work with the owners of the John Coltrane House in North Philadelphia to plan a revitalization strategy for the 20th-century jazz great's former home, as well as an adjacent property. Coltrane lived ...