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Jazz Musician of the Day: Muhal Richard Abrams

September 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Muhal Richard Abrams' birthday today! Muhal Richard Abrams..... World renowned pianist and composer has been in the forefront of the contemporary music scene for well over forty years. Muhal is a co-founder of The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), founder of The AACM School of Music and President ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Michael Franks

September 18, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Michael Franks' birthday today! Over the languorous course of 33 years and 16 albums, Michael Franks has mesmerized an international legion of fans with his one-of-a-kind artistry. Seamlessly weaving lyrics of stunning sensuality, wit, reflection and literary eloquence over music that tastefully utilizes top shelf shadings of jazz, soul, pop, chamber ...

News: Event

Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2012 is sold out!

September 18, 2012

Tickets to attend the DJWM12 are all sold out. There are however a limited number of tickets available for the morning and afternoon sessions in the Conservatorium of Amsterdam We can offer a limited number of passes to attend only the morning/afternoon sessions on Friday or Saturday in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Costs: €39,- for one ...

News: Festival

1st Annual Philly Jazz Fest "Remembering Grover" set for September 22

September 17, 2012

Woody Woodland and Carol Stone, founders of the award-winning Cape May Jazz Festival, are back on the scene presenting Philly Jazz Fest “Remembering Grover” September 22, 2012, at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel Ballroom. Philly Jazz Fest, Inc., a newly formed nonprofit corporation is proud to have sponsors WRTI Temple Public Radio, Jazz Times and All ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack McDuff

September 17, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack McDuff's birthday today! Brother Jack McDuff, was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. The instrument at the heart of the soul jazz style was the Hammond B-3 organ, usually in the company of ...

News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Support the JazzBridge Kickstarter Campaign "Jazz in the Neighborhood"

September 16, 2012

From Suzanne Cloud, Executive Director and Co-Founder Jazz Bridge Project: I'm happy to announce that Jazz Bridge has an angel who will back our Kickstarter Project ("Jazz in the Neighborhood") to the tune of $1,500 if our total reaches $4,500. Right now we're at $3,310! It would be absolutely wonderful if you could contribute $5, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Hamiet Bluiett

September 16, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Hamiet Bluiett's birthday today! The finest baritone saxophonist of the 1970s and beyond, Hamiet Bluiett has demonstrated a huge, impressive sound, superb technique, and a mastery of his horn in every register. In his solos, he can provide an array of tonal colors and harmonic options. A first-rate free player who\'s ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

September 15, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Julian “Cannonball" Adderley's birthday today! Both as the leader of his own bands as well as an alto and soprano saxophone stylist, Julian Edwin “Cannonball" Adderley was one of the progenitors of the swinging, rhythmically robust style of music that became known as hard-bop. Born September 15, 1928, into a musical ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jerome Sabbagh

September 14, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jerome Sabbagh's birthday today! Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris and has been living in New York since 1995. He has recorded five albums as a leader, the upcoming “Plugged In", “I Will Follow You", “One Two Three", “Pogo" and “North". Jerome Sabbagh has played with Paul Motian ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You / All About Jazz Calendar-Related Upgrades

September 13, 2012

We made two significant improvements to the event submission process and we fixed a bug. Improvements We relaxed the CSV file upload rules. All events are now uploaded regardless of a venue match. If city and state are included, we'll determine longitude and latitude so your events will still appear in our local calendar, our weekly ...