Don Pullen Musician – All About Jazz
Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and modern, but retaining a strong feeling for the blues. He produced acknowledged masterworks of jazz in a range of formats and styles, crossing and mixing genres long before this became almost commonplace. By chance, unfortunately for his future commercial […]
Jazz news: Glenn Miller: Holiday Season Radio Broadcasts
There’s something about Glenn Miller’s holiday broadcasts that seem timeless. Miller, of course, fronted two bands: His stateside orchestra from 1938 to early fall 1942 and then his Army Air Force Band from the late fall of 1942 to December 1944, when he perished over the English Channel flying from London to Paris. The latter […]
Woody Shaw Musician – All About Jazz
Woody Shaw, Jr. was born in Laurinburg, N.C. onDecember 24th, 1944 to Rosalie Pegues Shaw andWoody Shaw, Sr. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey,and began playing trumpet at the age of 11. Shawattended Arts High School in Newark where he studiedtrumpet and music theory with Jerome Ziering. Newarkhas a rich Jazz history and many […]
Freddy Gardner – b. 1910
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Dorothy Fields, The Only Major Female Songwriter Of The Golden Age article @ All About Jazz
Whenever there’s a discussion of the great songwriters of the Golden Age of popular music (1920s to 1960s), we hear the names Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, Frank Loesser, George Gershwin, and a few others. You don’t very often hear names Yip Harburg, PF Webster, Johnny Burke, Sammy Cahn, […]
Julia Danielle album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Julia Danielle: Julia Danielle ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Julia Danielle is a young Chicago-based singer whose debut album shows considerable promise. Aside from a limpid contralto voice, good time, and a dead-on resemblance in profile to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (it cannot hurt), she is the epitome of effortlessness […]
Today's Song: Supernaut
Listen to Supernaut (03:54) By Artist/Band Jazz Sabbath From the Album The 1968 Tapes (Blacklake) More Downloads Source link
Jazz news: JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 23, 2024
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 Samara Joy Portrait (Verve) 237 232 +5 6 46 1 9 […]
Painting Music, Making Light article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Catching Up With » Stefan Smulovitz: Painting Music, Making Light Courtesy Dianna Arnspiger What fascinates me about both science and music is trying to understand things deeply – finding those resonances of how things work. When you start grasping those connections, this beautiful little vibration happens. Stefan Smulovitz […]
The 1881 Club In Pasadena Adds Vocal Jazz To Their Popular Jazz Nights
Home » Jazz News » Performance / Tour Courtesy Judy Wexler Rated Best in Jazz in the San Gabriel Valley. The 1881 Club in Pasadena is pleased to announce the addition of a new music series, Vocal Jazz nights, to their live jazz lineup on the first and third Saturdays of the month, beginning January […]