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Jazz Musician of the Day: Count Basie

August 21, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Count Basie's birthday today! Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally with Fats Waller. He made his professional debut as an accompanist for ...

News: Recording

Herb Alpert's 'Whipped Cream Lady' now 76, living in Longview and looking back

August 21, 2012

The Whipped Cream Lady who is the model on the memorable LP cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' “Whipped Cream & Other Delights" is 76 now and living in Longview. Dolores Erickson wants to tell all you teen dreamers, “Enjoy the memories." Guys, the girl of your teen dreams now is 76. ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Design Improvements: Repositioned Social Sharing and Recommend Buttons

August 20, 2012

In addition to restyling article pagination and increasing the font size of our article text, we also repositioned the social sharing and recommend buttons—they now anchor the left side of our pages. We also changed the style of our “Recommend" button and our “I'm Interested" button to a blue “thumbs up" button. The new recommend button ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Enrico Rava

August 20, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Enrico Rava's birthday today! Enrico Rava, born in Trieste in 1939, is undoubtedly the most internationally acknowledged Italian jazzman. In forty years of his career as trumpet player, and composer, he has produced more than ninety recordings, tweny-five of which as a leader. Being a great admirer of Miles Davis and ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tim Hagans

August 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Tim Hagans' birthday today! Tim Hagans (born August 19, 1954) is a hard bop trumpeter and composer. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio playing in school bands. His early inspirations included Miles Davis, Herb Alpert, Sly Stone, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. In his late teens, Hagans joined the Stan Kenton ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: John Escreet

August 18, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating John Escreet's birthday today! Since moving to New York in 2006, John Escreet has had a powerful impact, and is emerging as one of the most creative and original pianists on the music scene there. He is highly revered amongst his peers for his creativity, openness and for his own original ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Rabih Abou-Khalil

August 17, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Rabih Abou-Khalil's birthday today! The oud virtuoso Rabih Abou Khalil was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1957 and grew up during the two decades when Beirut was on of the most cosmopolitan of all cities. He studied traditional Arabic music on the oud, western classical music on the flute and was ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Evans

August 16, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Evans' birthday today! Who Was Bill Evans? Bill Evans, one of the most influential and tragic figures of the post-bop jazz piano, was known for his highly nuanced touch, the clarity of the feeling content of his music and his reform of the chord voicing system pianists used. He recorded ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches New Musician and News Sections

August 15, 2012

All About Jazz further refines its platform launching two newly revised sections: musicians.allaboutjazz.com and news.allaboutjazz.com. Michael Ricci, All About Jazz's founder discusses the upgrade: “We're simplifying how we present our content by breaking AAJ up into a handful of smaller and more focused websites. Starting with the musician and news sections, we've created musicians.allaboutjazz.com and news.allaboutjazz.com ...

News: Event

Grammy Winning Guitarist Trevor Rabin Hosts Workshop at Guitar Center's August 17, 2012

August 15, 2012

Meet-and-Greet & Signing of latest album, Jacaranda at 6:30PM Workshop at 7:00pm Hollywood, CA: South African born Grammy winner, Trevor Rabin, will be conducting a workshop and album signing at Guitar Center on August 17th, 2012. The event will take place at 14209 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 beginning at 7pm. The platinum selling guitarist ...