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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Cunliffe

June 26, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Cunliffe's birthday today! Grammy nominated composer, arranger and jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe is gathering nationwide attention with his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions He first fell under the influence of jazz by studying at Duke University with the great pianist Mary Lou Williams. He received his masters from the ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Johnny Smith

June 25, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Johnny Smith's birthday today! Guitarist Johnny Smith\'s career spans the decades of the 1940\'s through the 1990\'s. From the very beginning of his musical career he influenced the playing of other guitarists. In fact, many mention Smith as a major influence on their playing. The major guitar builders as Guild, Gibson, ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jeff Beck

June 24, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jeff Beck's birthday today! Jeff Beck isn\'t your typical guitar legend. His goal, in fact, is to make you forget that he plays guitar. “I don\'t understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound," says Beck."Finding ways to use the same guitar ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Donald Harrison

June 23, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Donald Harrison's birthday today! (The King of Nouveau Swing) Donald Harrison is being called one of the most important musicians of the new millennium by CBS Sunday Morning. A list of his accomplishments shows that he has developed into a musical category unto himself. In the classic jazz genre, he is ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Hermeto Pascoal

June 22, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Hermeto Pascoal's birthday today! Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer who transcends category. Hermeto often uses unconventional instruments such as teapots, children\'s toys, found objects, and--sometimes, without harming them--live animals. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, where the musicians burble ...

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All About Jazz / Jazz Near You Workshop for Musicians and Presenters at the Philadelphia Clef Club on Thursday, June 21st

June 21, 2012

How to promote your live shows and your recorded music at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You - Philadelphia Area musicians and presenters welcome! RSVP: Suzanne Cloud On Thursday, June 21st, All About Jazz and Jazz Bridge will present a free workshop for professional musicians, music students (high school/college) and presenters at the Philadelphia Clef ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eric Reed

June 21, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Eric Reed's birthday today! When you think of hard-driving swing, daring expression, sophistication and elegance in artistry, formidable technique and a thunderous sound, there are only a very small handful of contemporary pianists you think of and one of them is most assuredly ERIC REED. But don’t think of him as ...

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Jazz programming on WGBH-FM being scaled back, a blow to local jazz fans

June 21, 2012

To the consternation of loyal listeners, WGBH-FM (89.7) is dropping jazz programming on weeknights, moving longtime host Eric Jackson to weekend duties only, and eliminating Steve Schwartz’s Friday show. The changes, some of which take effect July 2, come amid an expansion of National Public Radio programming on WGBH, including additional broadcasts of “Marketplace” and extending ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eric Dolphy

June 20, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Eric Dolphy's birthday today! Eric Allan Dolphy was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto players to rise to prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Roberto Magris

June 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Roberto Magris' birthday today! Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1959 and began his jazz career in the late ‘70s. He has recorded 18 albums with his own groups and has played concerts in 39 different countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia, also performing at several top jazz festivals and ...