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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. ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Stryker

March 30, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Stryker's birthday today! Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 25 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Michael Brecker

March 29, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Michael Brecker's birthday today! Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option, Brecker began studying clarinet, then ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Thad Jones

March 28, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Thad Jones' birthday today! Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923- August 21, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten (an older brother was pianist Hank Jones and a younger brother was drummer Elvin Jones). Thad Jones was ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sarah Vaughan

March 27, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Sarah Vaughan's birthday today! In the 1940s, when most women singers adorned big bands as stage attractions rather than legitimate members of jazz ensembles, Sarah Vaughan, along with her predecessor Ella Fitzgerald, helped elevate the vocalist's role as equal to that of the jazz instrumentalist. A woman known for her many ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: James Moody

March 26, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating James Moody's birthday today! For over six decades, saxophone master James Moody has serenaded lovers with his signature song Moody's Mood for Love an improvisation on the chord progressions of I'm in the Mood for Love. Born in Savannah, Georgia on March 26, 1925, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, James ...