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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gerry Mulligan

April 6, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Gerry Mulligan's birthday today! Gerry Mulligan grew up in Philadelphia and first learned piano, which he played occasionally. While in his teens, he wrote arrangements for Johnny Warrington's radio band (1944) and played reed instruments professionally. After moving to New York in 1946, he joined Gene Krupa's big band as staff ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Stanley Turrentine

April 5, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Stanley Turrentine's birthday today! Stanley William Turrentine was one of the most distinctive tenor saxophonists in jazz. Known for his big, warm, sound, “The Sugar Man" or the original “Mr. T" found inspiration in the blues and turned it into a hugely successful career with a #1 hit and four Grammy ...

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jazzahead! Festival 2022: the joy of being there for an abundance of music!

April 5, 2022

Lots of music and plenty of variety: those are some of the things which this year's jazzahead! at MESSE BREMEN has to offer. At last, after a two-year hiatus, the festival is back. From 14 April to 1 May there will be over 100 concerts on the site of the Messe, and also in several locations ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Green

April 4, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Green's birthday today! Born in New York in 1963, Benny Green grew up in Berkeley, California, and began classical piano studies at the age of seven. Influenced by his father, a tenor saxophonist, his attention soon turned into Jazz: “I began trying to improvise on the piano, imitating the records ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Scott LaFaro

April 3, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Scott LaFaro's birthday today! Rocco Scott LaFaro (1936-1961) was a musician of the first order, who found his 'voice' in jazz in the mid-1950s. His played the double bass violin, better known today as the acoustic bass to differentiate this instrument from the electric (or electronic) bass. His life was cut ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Coryell

April 2, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Coryell's birthday today! Musician magazine named him to its list of 100 greatest guitarists alive today, and after releasing more than 60 albums as a leader and playing on dozens more as a sideman in the last 40 years, Larry Coryell's definitely earned that honor. Exploring the sound of the ...

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jazzahead! 2022 Trade Fair, Showcase and Festival - Register Today!

April 2, 2022

jazzahead!, the world’s most significant annual international jazz convention in Bremen, Germany, connects you with the international scene. In 2019, 3,408 professional participants from 64 nations were registered, hailing from various fields of business activities like: promoters, bookers, labels, agencies, publishers, festival and club programmers, distributors, production companies, lobby institutions, associations, press as well as many ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 4, 2022

April 1, 2022

All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy! TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jazzmeia Horn Dear Love (Empress Legacy) 256 277 -21 1 40 1 ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Jordan

April 1, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Jordan's birthday today! Duke Jordan was a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz pantheon. Jordan was regarded as one of the great early bebop pianists, the sound that he helped to create in the postwar era was something new, and it remains a cornerstone ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

March 31, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's birthday today! Christian Scott, also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a two-time Edison Award winning and Grammy Award nominated trumpeter, composer and producer. He is the nephew of jazz innovator and legendary sax man, Donald Harrison, Jr. ...