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News: Education

Jazz Arts Group Announces 2012 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award Winner

May 21, 2012

Columbus, OH The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has announced its winner of the 2012 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohio's young students of jazz. Six extremely talented high school students auditioned for the $500 cash award and the chance to perform with the ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Upgrades Comments Portion of Website

May 20, 2012

All About Jazz has streamlined the posting, editing, deleting, and reporting of its comments to improve handling and flow. In addition to ravamping how we handle comments, we also improved the presentation, making it easier to follow and post to a thread. Readers can sort comments by newest or oldest post, track when comments were posted ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bob Florence

May 20, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Bob Florence's birthday today! For close to 50 years now the release of a new Bob Florence recording has been a major cause for celebration in the jazz world and with each album, going all the way back to 1958\'s “Name Band 59", it seems that he has reached an absolute ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Fortune

May 19, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Fortune's birthday today! When critics speak of Sonny Fortune, names like Coltrane, Cannonball, Young, Bechet, Hawkins and Parker are mentioned. Quite a legacy - but well deserved - for Sonny Fortune embodies all of the finest qualities of those late, great musicians: hard work, dedication to his art, and exceptional ...

News: Recording

"Searching For Sugar Man" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Brings Rodriguez's 1970s Music To A New Generation

May 19, 2012

RODRIGUEZ'S MYSTERY AND THE IMPACT OF HIS MUSIC ON SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH DURING APARTHEID REVEALED IN DOCUMENTARY Soundtrack available everywhere starting July 24, 2012 “The buzzworthy Sundance documentary" —Yahoo! “An acclaimed new documentary goes hunting for the lost Dylan" —Grantland LEGACY RECORDINGS LOGO Legacy Recordings logo. Division of SONY Music Entertainment. NEW YORK, NY: One of ...

News: Event

Jazz Legend Peggy Lee to be Memorialized by Her Childhood Hometown (Wimbledon, North Dakota)

May 19, 2012

(May 18, 2012 - Wimbledon, ND) World-renowned jazz legend Miss Peggy Lee is being memorialized by her childhood hometown of Wimbledon, North Dakota with a permanent installation of photos, music and memorabilia from her unparalleled career at the transportation depot where she lived a number of years as a child. The exhibition will be dedicated at ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches Free Event Upload Service

May 18, 2012

All About Jazz, the web's leading jazz event aggregator has launched a free event upload service so musicians, presenters, agencies, venues and festivals can upload multiple concert dates to the All About Jazz calendar network. “This is a tremendously convenient and fast way for folks to upload several concert dates at once," said Michael Ricci, All ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Navigation Improvements

May 18, 2012

We refined and improved the All About Jazz home page to increase the awareness of website comments and to increase our navigation bar options. 1. Readers must now click a navigation bar section header to open the menu items beneath it. This opens a larger window that is locked in place and will remain visible even ...

News: Recording

Steve Smith & Vital Information Release New CD+DVD on BFM Jazz; Launch 30th Anniversary Tour (May 31-June 27)

May 18, 2012

LIVE! One Great Night - a CD + DVD set to be released May 29, 2012 on the BFM Jazz label - captures Vital Information in their natural habitat: A packed club with an audience of music lovers and the band in high gear, pulling out all the stops for the entire set. The all-star lineup ...

News: Obituary

Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63

May 18, 2012

Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty — the Queen of Disco. Yet unlike Michael Jackson or Aretha Franklin, it was a designation she wasn't comfortable embracing. “I grew up on rock 'n' roll," Summer once said when explaining her reluctance to claim ...