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Advertise at Jazz Near You and All About Jazz

September 25, 2012

Your banners will now be seen at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You. We have also simplified our advertising rates and options page and added a “terminology" section for first-time web advertisers. “Over the years advertisers were reluctant to purchase ad space at All About Jazz because they saw more non-endemic ads than jazz ads," ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sam Rivers

September 25, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Sam Rivers' birthday today! Samuel Carthorne Rivers (born September 25, 1923, El Reno, Oklahoma) is a jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, and piano. Rivers was previously thought to have been born in 1930. Rivers\'s father was a gospel musician who had sung ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock

September 24, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today! Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. ...

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Jazz Near You: Our Clean Data Initiative

September 23, 2012

With the impending launch of the highly anticipated Jazz Near You website, I want to address a few related topics as we prepare to go live with the website and mobile app. Our service is only as reliable as the content entered. As a crowd-sourcing website and with no paid staff to verify entered data, we ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: John Coltrane

September 23, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating John Coltrane's birthday today! John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young Coltrane spent his early years. His father, John Robert Coltrane, died in 1939, leaving twelve year-old John and his mother ...

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ACT Music Week at All About Jazz

September 22, 2012

We continue our celebration of ACT Music with a free MP3 from the Vijay Iyer Trio's latest release Accelerando. Not familiar with ACT Music? Read Jakob Baekgaard's profile “ACT: 20 Years of Magical Music“ published earlier this week. Download “Lude" and five other free MP3s from ACT Music. Lude (4:54) Vijay Iyer ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Vandermark

September 22, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Ken Vandermark's birthday today! For the past 20 years, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and working to expand the possibilities of improvised and composed music in North America and Europe. Since moving to Chicago from Boston in 1989, he\'s performed and recorded in a variety of contexts, and with many internationally ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Chico Hamilton

September 21, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Chico Hamilton's birthday today! Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Foreststorn ‘Chico’ Hamilton, born September 21st, 1921 in Los Angeles, had a fast track musical education in a band with his schoolmates Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso. Engagements with Lionel Hampton, Slim & Slam, ...

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Upcoming Album Releases and Future Articles Links Moved

September 20, 2012

Two navigation changes to All About Jazz The “Events" option on the navigation bar (above) will soon change to “Near You" and link directly to the Jazz Near You website. In anticipation of this change, we've moved the Upcoming Album Releases and Future Articles links to the CD Review Center and Article Center respectively. To access ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Coleman

September 20, 2012

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 ...