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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Parker
All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday today! The only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker was one of the most important and influential saxophonists and jazz players of the 1940’s. When Parker was still a child, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where jazz, blues and gospel music were flourishing. His ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Goldings
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Goldings' birthday today! With his signature Hammond organ style and versatility on many keyboards, Boston native Larry Goldings has traversed not only the wide spectrum of jazz where he is perhaps best known, but also the worlds of funk, pop, and electronic/alternative music. High in demand as a sideman, Goldings\' ...
New Related Musician Information Box Added to All About Jazz Pages
We combined most of our musician-related information into a single tabbed box and have appended the box to all article, news, event, download and video pages that are associated with a musician. In addition to packing the box with loads of content, we've made it easier for jazz newbies to explore related artists and for members ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Lester Young
All About Jazz is celebrating Lester Young's birthday today! Lester “Prez" Young was one of the giants of the tenor saxophone. He was the greatest improviser between Coleman Hawkins and Louis Armstrong of the 1920s and Charlie Parker in the 1940s. From the beginning, he set out to be different: He had his own lingo; In ...
Diana Krall salutes Neil Armstrong with "Fly Me to the Moon" during LA concert
LOS ANGELES — Diana Krall knows how to pay tribute to Neil Armstrong. The jazz singer-pianist tenderly played the standard “Fly Me to the Moon” during a Saturday concert at the Hollywood Bowl. She once was lucky enough to share a glass of wine with the first man to walk on the moon, Krall said. The ...
The groove where jazz and dance music meet
Artists such as DJ Quantic and Robert Glasper are folding strains of jazz into a mix that sounds natural on the dance floor. The beat-tastic result is moving forward, no matter what you call it. The cavernous dance club in downtown L.A. is hopping, and the weekend is still a day away. The club is ordinarily ...
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem
There comes a moment during all the Charlie Parker Jazz Festivals I have seen in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem when the crowd decides it is truly happy, and pockets of excitement form like chemical reactions onstage and in the audience. The crowd tends to be middle-aged or older — wise, skeptical, funny, good at staging ...
Jazz Bassist Flores, Hartford Resident, Dies At 41
Charles Flores, a Grammy-winning jazz bassist who was born in Cuba but made his home in Hartford for more than two decades, died Wednesday at age 41. The cause was complications related to throat cancer, according to bandleader and composer Michel Camilo, who performed with Flores and counted him as a close friend. Flores had an ...
Branford Marsalis to play Grace Cathedral
Branford Marsalis decided to quit his coveted job as the musical director of “The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno in 1994 after playing Jacques Ibert's concerto for alto saxophone with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of another far-ranging jazz musician, Bobby McFerrin. The performance pleased the audience and critics, but not the artist. “It ...
Byard Lancaster, 70, Famed Phila. Jazz Musician
Byard Lancaster, 70, the Philadelphia jazz musician who earned an international reputation as an avant-garde musical explorer in the 1960s and 1970s, died of cancer Thursday, Aug. 23, at KeystoneCare in Wyndmoor, according to his sister, Mary Ann Lancaster Tyler. In the decades that followed his early fame, he became a local institution, playing saxophone and ...
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