Joe Wilder, a trumpeter with a polished, punctuating sound whose ferocious recording schedule starting in 1942 with big bands, R&B groups and small jazz ensembles left him little time to record as a leader, died May 9. He was 92. Known to insiders as "Junior," Joe was such a clean and distinct player that he often sounded like a well-dressed pool shark cleaning the table. Like the shark who rids...
All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today! Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous a€'...
Today, we've got a series of videos featuring saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, drummer Tom Rainey and drummer Tyler Damon, who will be the visiting performers at New Music Circle's final concert of the season at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 20 at the William S. Kerr Foundation, 21 O'Fallon St. on Laclede's Landing......
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today! Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school...
By Damian Burke, web developer and editor of The Doughnut, from the Sonicbids Blog. This third installment is aimed at musicians who have a basic understanding of SEO, access to their hosting and content management system (e.g. Wordpress, Drupal), and dona€(TM)t mind getting their hands dirty with a little bit of code......
All About Jazz is celebrating Venissa Santi's birthday today! Venissaa€(TM)s artistry stems from the necessity to express the many influences that have nourished her spirit as a Cuban American. She was born in Ithaca, New York and hails from a long line of Cuban artists. But it was her grandfather, Jacobo Ros Capablanca, a Cuban composer who instilled in her a life-long passion for music....
IN CELEBRATION OF ITS SEVEN TONY NOMINATIONS SONY MUSIC'S LEGACY RECORDINGS TO RELEASE "DUKE ELLINGTON: THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS THAT INSPIRED THE BROADWAY HIT AFTER MIDNIGHT" DIGITAL RELEASE SET FOR MAY 27 CD HITS STORES JUNE 17 New York, NY: Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Duke Ellington: The Original Recordings That Inspired The Broadway Hit After...
e: Blue Note Records , the world's most respected and longest-running Jazz label, is being commemorated for its 75th Anniversary throughout 2014 and beyond with a broad range of special releases and events. Blue Note is pleased to announce new Blue Note Select collections for Clifford Brown, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, each with original recordings sequenced as they were first...
Jazz Services Ltd announced this week that Christine Allen will be stepping down as Vice Chairman of the board of trustees. Christine has had a long and influential career in the UK Jazz industry and next to her position on the board of trustees for Jazz Services she is also Managing Director of Basho Music. Jazz Services issues the following statement......
Nelson Riddle slowed down a bit in the 1970s. After spending the two previous decades arranging dozens of albums credited to him and probably dozens more forA lucrative ghost projects, Riddle worked on just one or two albums a year in the '70s before his comeback with Linda Ronstadt's three hit Songbook albums starting in 1983. For Riddle, there were a couple of 101 Strings dates in 1970, an Ella Fitzgerald...
With hardly a week going by in which we dona€(TM)t lose a venerable musician, it may be natural to wonder whether the art form will wither. That is unlikely. New players emerge and enrich the music. It is rare, however, that they emerge quite as young as Kojo Roney of the jny: Philadelphia Roneys. He is the son of tenor saxophonist Antoine and a nephew of trumpeter Wallace. He plays drums....
All About Jazz is celebrating Ramsey Lewis' birthday today! Composer and pianist Ramsey Lewis has been referred to as a€oethe great performer", a title reflecting his performance style and musical selections which display his early gospel playing and classical training along with his love of jazz and other musical forms. A native Chicagoan (born May 27, 1935), Mr. Lewis represents the great...
Jazz in Europe has relaunched under the guidance of founder and chief editor Johan van Deega€'providing greater coverage and reaching a wider readership Due to health reasons, Johan van Deeg will step down as chief editor effective on 1 June 2014 and oversee the transition in ownership to Dutch-based media company, MFM Media. Van Deeg, who has suffered from poor health since early 2013, sought...
Pianist m: Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist m: Mark Feldman will play the Kevin Barry Room at the e:National Concert Hall, jny:Dublin, May 29. Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time. Courvoisier has led several groups over the years and has recorded over 40 records...
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Mack Avenue Records "The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 28th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Nels Cline at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)......
There's a recent piece about a musician who has built a huge online following by simply focusing on those who care enough to interact with him online. I can't find the article now but the theme of focusing on those who care, rather than amassing large numbers of likes and whatnot from those who are simply aware of your existence, is a recurring one that recently appeared in two tech posts featuring...
In early 1945, m: Coleman Hawkins asked trumpeter Howard McGhee if he wanted to join him for a month-long gig in jny: Los Angeles at club due to open. The offer came in jny: Buffalo, N.Y., where both musicians were playing and winter had set in hard, McGhee didn't need to be asked twice. Heading West on the road with Hawkins could only have an upside. In a quintet setting, McGhee would have solo time...
After Herb Jeffries died on Sunday in jny: Los Angeles, headlines around the world remembered him for his career as a singing cowboy in a succession of low budget 1930s Hollywood movies. Appreciative listeners are more likely to recall Jeffries as the singer who worked with the Earl Hines Orchestra, then joined Duke Ellington when the classic Blanton-Webster edition of the band was taking shape. With...
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS 36TH ANNUAL PLAYBOY JAZZ FESTIVAL AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL JUNE 14-15, 2014 PERFORMERS INCLUDE CELEBRATED ICONS OF THE GENRE, EMERGING ARTISTS AND A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY GEORGE DUKE Headliners include: m: Dianne Reeves , m: George Benson with special guest m: Earl Klugh , m: Jamie Cullum , Fantasia, m: Al Jarreau and m: Stanley Clarke celebrating George Duke......
This Memorial Day weekend offered a peak experience for those who faithfully follow classical jazz anywhere in the country, and certainly for fans in Southwest Ohio. Jazz icon Eddie Brookshire was seen performing his magic on bass with the Chris Comer Trio at View 162, the elegant rooftop restaurant at the Crown Plaza Hotel in downtown Dayton, OH......