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Jazz Musician of the Day: Helen Merrill

July 21, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Helen Merrill's birthday today! Helen Merrill\'s long history in jazz began with her first album on the Mercury Emarcy label arranged and produced by Quincy Jones in 1954 up to her latest CD album released in early 2000. In between were more then 50 Jazz albums and countless concerts, club dates, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bob McHugh

July 20, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Bob McHugh's birthday today! Bob McHugh has been playing jazz clubs,festivals,halls,private parties, and restaurants in the NY metro area for over forty years. Be it solo,duo,trio or big band Bob has done it. His styles include, but are not limited to jazz,rock,blues,and fusion. Bob has recorded three albums for Outstanding Records,and ...

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Life, Law and All That Jazz: Using the Art of Improvisation in the Courtroom

July 20, 2012

Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is one of my desert island, all-time favorite records. I have the album cover for Sketches of Spain framed on my bedroom wall. I played baritone saxophone in my high school jazz band, and if I could learn any skill with the simple press of a button — Matrix-style — I ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carmell Jones

July 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Carmell Jones' birthday today! An excellent hard bop trumpeter, Carmell Jones would probably have been much better-known today if he had not moved to Europe in the mid-\'60s at the height of his career. In 1960, after two years in the army and two years at the University of Kansas as ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lynn Seaton

July 18, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Lynn Seaton's birthday today! Lynn Seaton has had a stellar career as a jazz bassist. Born in Oklahoma in 1957, he started playing the bass at age 9. By the late 70’s he was performing around the state. From 1980 until 1984 he was the house bassist at the Blue Wisp ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Vince Guaraldi

July 17, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Vince Guaraldi's birthday today! By Derrick Bang Like most so-called overnight successes, Vincent Anthony Guaraldi--who forever described himself as “a reformed boogie-woogie piano player"--worked hard for his big break. The man eventually dubbed “Dr. Funk" by his compatriots was born in San Francisco on July 17, 1928; he graduated from Lincoln ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Cal Tjader

July 16, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Cal Tjader's birthday today! Cal Tjader crafted one the sleekest and most distinctive sounds in Latin jazz. His cool, shimmering, jazz vibes, gliding fluidly atop fiery, hot Afro-Cuban rhythms, made for a sonic signature that helped introduce the genre into a mainstream audience. Cal Tjader’s mother was a concert pianist, his ...

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21st Edition Jazz In The Park 2012: Homage To Bernardo Sassetti

July 15, 2012

July 15, 6 p.m., Serralves Auditorium CONCERT ‘PELAS MÃOS DE BERNARDO/THROUGH BERNARDO’S HANDS’ Parque da Fundação de Serralves Rua de Serralves 977 Porto In 2012, Jazz returns to Serralves Park on July 7, 14 and 21 always at 6 p.m. This year the stage at the Serralves Park Tennis Court ...

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Jazz on Film... Film Noir (Limited Edition 5-CD box set) on Moochin’ About

July 15, 2012

Collected together for the first time... Seven classic 1950’s film noir jazz-inspired original scores Best ever quality digital remastering A Streetcar Named Desire (Alex North) Private Hell 36 (Leith Stevens) The Man with the Golden Arm (Elmer Bernstein) Sweet Smell of Success (Elmer Bernstein/Chico Hamilton)

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Participate in two AAJ Reader Polls

July 15, 2012

Dear friends, When you get a minute please participate in our two new polls: How do you access the internet? How do you access jazz news & information? If you are an All About Jazz forum member, you can vote by clicking the two links above. If you use Facebook, you can vote at ...