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Jazz Musician of the Day: Russell Malone

November 8, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Russell Malone's birthday today! Russell Malone\'s first guitar was a plastic green toy his mother bought him. Only four years old, Malone strummed the little guitar all day long for days on end trying to emulate the sounds he had heard from guitarists at church in Albany, Georgia. As a child, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: David S. Ware

November 7, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating David S. Ware's birthday today! David S. Ware has been playing the saxophone for over 40 years. First in New Jersey public school bands, and in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins as a youth in the \'60s; then as part of the fertile NYC Loft Jazz era of the \'70s. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Arturo Sandoval

November 6, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Arturo Sandoval's birthday today! Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet, composer, recording artist Arturo Sandoval is a virtuoso trumpet master who has expressed his versatility in the realms of jazz, Latin Jazz, popular and classical music. He has won six Grammy’s , one Emmy, is a multiple Billboard award winner for his top ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Neil Cowley

November 5, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Neil Cowley's birthday today! As a young boy, London-born Neil Cowley studied classical music at the prestigious Royal Academy, and by the age of 10 had performed a Shostakovich piano concerto to a full house at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By his mid-teens, Cowley had joined a friend in a Blues ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jeremy Pelt

November 4, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jeremy Pelt's birthday today! Jeremy Pelt arrived in New York in 1998 after graduating from Berklee College of Music. Once he got there, it wasn\'t long before he started being noticed by a lot of top musicians in the city. His first professional Jazz gig was playing with the Mingus Big ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Monheit

November 3, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Monheit's birthday today! “I\'m one of those people who go just a little too crazy over Christmas," Jane Monheit cheerfully admits. “So in my head, I\'ve been planning and conceptualizing this album for years. I was just waiting for the right time." The “right time" now has arrived for The ...

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Disaster relief service at The Paramount in downtown Huntington, Long Island, NY

November 2, 2012

The Paramount is providing disaster relief services for Hurricane Sandy victims. The Paramount 370 New York Avenue Huntington, NY 11743 631-673-7300 From The Paramount's Adam Ellis: We are set up to collect food for Long Island Cares daily in the box office from 12p-6p We are hosting a blood drive ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Elling

November 2, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Elling's birthday today! Grammy winner Kurt Elling is among the world\'s foremost jazz vocalists. He has won every DownBeat Critics Poll for the last thirteen years and has been named “Male Singer of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span. Every one of Elling\'s ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Antonio Sanchez

November 1, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Antonio Sanchez's birthday today! Antonio Sanchez was born in Mexico City November 1st, 1971. At age five, he discoreved an irresistible attraction towards the drumset. After a few years of private study he started performing in a wide variety of musical situations ranging from rock to jazz and latin to fusion ...

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AllAboutJazz.com Launches Groundbreaking JazzNearYou.com Website

October 31, 2012

Highly anticipated website launches in two hundred cities—Mobile App to follow   Philadelphia, PA: Until now, jazz music has lacked a single comprehensive source where fans could access upcoming event information locally and around the world. Now they can, with JazzNearYou.com.   AllAboutJazz.com, jazz music's most viewed and longest running website has launched JazzNearYou.com, an event- and community-driven ...