All About Jazz is celebrating Claudio Roditi's birthday today! This Brazilian composer/arranger and trumpet artist has fourteen critically acclaimed albums, a Grammy nomination, and a busy international touring schedule that includes the most prestigious jazz festivals in the world. Claudio Roditi was born May 28th, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began his musical studies when he was just five...
Celebrating m: Charles Gayle Lifetime Of Achievement on June 11 At this, the nineteenth Vision Festival, Arts For Art is proud to acknowledge Charles Gayle for his Lifetime of Achievement. A gentle and humble artist, he is clearly one of the greatest saxophone players. Born and raised in Buffalo, he was much influenced by the church, where he grew up singing and playing music, but also deeply affected...
All About Jazz is celebrating Miles Davis' birthday today! Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine...
All About Jazz is celebrating Wallace Roney's birthday today! At a time when much of the Jazz world seems content to simply attempt to recreate the past, trumpeter/composer Wallace Roney follows the true Jazz tradition of utilizing the past to move forward. This has resulted in acknowledgment by the public and his peers with his receipt of three Grammy Awards and numerous nominations for projects in...
Jazz Near You now offers a third way to place local jazz events on your website or blog. To access your city's event feed, go to Jazz Near You, drag your mouse over "OPTIONS," then select "RSS Feed." jazznearyou.com > OPTIONS > RSS Feed CMS's like WordPress offer RSS Feed reader plug-ins, which makes adding jazz events to your website an easy and one-time task......
Jazz Near You now offers two ways to import local jazz events into your iCal, Google, Yahoo or Outlook calendar. To import multiple events, go to Jazz Near You, drag your mouse over "OPTIONS," then select "iCal Format." jazznearyou.com > OPTIONS > iCal Format To import a single event, go to an event detail page, click "Add to Calendar" then select your calendar program from the pop up window......
All About Jazz is celebrating Artie Shaw's birthday today! Artie Shaw, a brilliant jazz clarinetist, was one of the most enigmatic, daring and adventurous bandleaders of the swing-era. An intellectual, he hated public life and the music industry. Over the course of his short career he formed ten orchestras and disbanding most of them after only a few months. At the peak of his career in the years just...
If you present jazz, own a venue, or book jazz, then take advantage of Jazz Near You's convenient (and free) file upload service. File upload allows users to upload multiple events at once, and requires no programming experience. Many of our partners including e: SFJAZZ Center (San Francisco), e: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola and e: Blue Note New York , e: Cafe OTO (London), e: World Cafe Live - Philadelphia...
Grammy-Nominated Stacey Kent Tours US and Canada with New CD The Changing Lights on Warner Bros Records Featuring Longtime Partner m: Jim Tomlinson , Famed Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and Brazilian Legend Roberto Menescal Birdland, June 10-14, New York City Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 25, Canada Palais Montcalm, Quebec City, June 27, Canada Montreal Jazz Festival, June 28, Canada......
All About Jazz features a new visual artist each month at the Jazz Gallery. Professional photographers, painters, illustrators and graphic artists are all welcome to participate. If you're a professional and looking for increased exposure within the All About Jazz and Jazz Near You community, follow these simple steps for consideration......
The All About Jazz gallery, home to nearly 120,000 jazz images, has been redesigned for improved navigation and ease of use. "In addition to a much improved appearance, the goal of the upgrade was to raise the awareness of professional photographers, painters, graphic artists and illustrators, build a greater awareness of the gallery on more AAJ pages and on our Facebook and Twitter pages, and improve...
Today, we focus our video lens on the trio of saxophonist Peter BrA tzmann, bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake, who are coming to St. Louis to perform in a concert at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center as part of LNAC's 20th anniversary celebration......
All About Jazz is celebrating Kai Winding's birthday today! Kai Winding - trombone (1922 - 1983) Trombonist Kai Christen Winding (pronounced ki-win-ding) was one of the founding fathers of be-bop music and truly one of the finest-ever jazz trombonists. As a sideman to bopa€(TM)s reigning kings " Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Tadd Dameron " he was more a bridesmaid...
All About Jazz handpicks a photo, painting, or illustration daily and features it as our image of the day. In addition to highlighting the image in our Image of the Day box, we also present the last 60 in a montage at the bottom of our gallery pages. All About Jazz pushes the image of the day out to other websites and blogs via its Image of the Day widget, and now features the image of the day on our...
This week on Riverwalk Jazz the e: Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of m: Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound......
1 2 1 Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote) 320 252 68 3 55 1 4 2 1 2 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema) 283 278 5 1 52 1 6 3 5 3 Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri) 223 213......
All About Jazz is celebrating Grace Kelly's birthday today! When it comes to saxophonist/vocalist/composer/lyricist/arranger Grace Kelly, people seem to be divided into two groups: those who marvel at her proficiency, creativity and ever-accelerating growth, and those who have yet to encounter the 16-year-old wunderkind. The ranks of the former category are growing by the day... Read more......
As part of the Jazz Musician Database relaunch project, we've reimplemented friendly URLs to greatly improve usability and accessibility. The friendly URL is easier to type and remember. Search engines like them too. For quick access to a musician profile, simply append the musician's name to the All About Jazz URL like this......
All About Jazz is celebrating Red Garland's birthday today! Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand...
Welcome to the Spring 2014 edition of All About Jazz magazine. Our maiden issue eclipsed 100,000 readers, which kicked off a series of raucous celebrations that lasted throughout Jazz Appreciation Month. And the party continues... We're all in, and we're doing our part to celebrate the 75th annivers......