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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ahmad Jamal

July 2, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Ahmad Jamal's birthday today! In 1951, Mr. Jamal first recorded \'Ahmad\'s Blues\' on Okeh Records. His arrangement of the folk tune \'Billy Boy\', and \'Poinciana\' (not his original composition), also stem from this period. In 1955, he recorded his first Argo (Chess) Records album that included \'New Rhumba\', \'Excerpts From The ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Erik Friedlander

July 1, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Erik Friedlander's birthday today! Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a first-call studio player and a jazzbo. A veteran of NYC\'s downtown scene, his 12 CDs as a leader recently include, Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music; The Broken Arm Trio, a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Andrew Hill

June 30, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Andrew Hill's birthday today! Over nearly half a century, composer-pianist-ensemble leader Andrew Hill gained international jazz renown for his uniquely original music and recorded ouevre, which is by turns dark, fragile, funny, stark, unforgettably tuneful, percussive, insightful, oblique, transparent and mysterious. With the release of Dusk (Palmetto Records), his first album ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian Priester

June 29, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Julian Priester's birthday today! Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. Priester attended Chicago\'s DuSable High School, where he studied under Walter Dyett. In his teens he played with blues and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Tierney Sutton

June 28, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Tierney Sutton's birthday today! In a world of overnight sensations, jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton’s success has come from the road less traveled. A decision in the mid ’90s to move to Southern California from her New England home resulted in a decade-long collaboration with her current band mates. A Wisconsin- born ...

News: Festival

Caramoor International Music Festival Presents The 2012 Jazz Festival, July 28-29 and August 4

June 27, 2012

The last weekend in July and first Saturday of August echo with the sound of jazz. The annual Jazz Festival welcomes the industry's brightest new talents and celebrated chart-toppers, demonstrating the breadth and diversity of the state of jazz. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 3pm - 10pm THE COOKERS, GRETCHEN PARLATO, KENNY BARRON, DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER, ROY HAYNES ...

News: Recording

Keith Jarrett's "Sleeper" from Tokyo, April 16, 1979

June 27, 2012

U.S. Release date: August 7, 2012 ECM is particularly pleased to present this two-disc set by one of the most outstanding groups of its era, the group often referred to as 'Belonging' or Keith Jarrett’s 'European Quartet', heard here in a previously unreleased concert recording from 1979. After more than three decades in the archive, this ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope

June 27, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Elmo Hope's birthday today! This profile was inspired by an exceptional article here on All About Jazz by Derek Taylor called “St. Elmo’s Fire” where he focuses and expands on Elmo Hope’s music and recordings. St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was born in New York on June 27, 1923, began piano studies ...

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21st Edition Jazz In The Park 2012 Lineup

June 27, 2012

July 07, 6 p.m., Serralves Park Tennis Court MARTY EHRLICH'S RITES QUARTET July 14, 3 p.m., Serralves Auditorium Round Table ‘BERNARDO SASSETTI’ July 14, 6 p.m., Serralves Park Tennis Court Marco BARROSO’S ORQUESTRA LUME (LISBON UNDERGROUND MUSIC ENSEMBLE) July 15, 6 p.m., Serralves Auditorium CONCERT ‘PELAS MÃOS DE BERNARDO/THROUGH ...

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Coming Soon: "Menage a Bughouse" by Cartoonist Steve Lafler

June 26, 2012

Cartoonist Steve Lafler teams up with publisher CO2 to release Ménage a Bughouse. a 408-page volume collecting Lafler's trilogy of Bughouse graphic novels, Bughouse, Baja and Scalawag. Bughouse is the story of Jimmy Watts and his band of jazz playing bugs. The character driven story is set in a stylish “insect-noir” world, invoking an indigo-toned Manhattan ...