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WEBFeatured Brenda Earle Stokes: On Music, Motherhood, and Being Here For Everything By Andrea Wolper | Interview September 25, 2024. This past May, New York-based pianist, singer, composer, and teacher-entrepreneur Brenda Earle Stokes released her fifth album, Motherhood, reviewed on All About Jazz as "an honest and open-hearted look at the scope of selflessness and self-discovery involved with ...
Jazz Video of the Day - All About Jazz
WEB5 days ago · Duration: 4:36. Danny Jonokuchi, the award-winning arranger-trumpeter-vocalist, has released a new album 'A Decade'. Among the highlights is a rousing rendition of Kenny Barron's "Voyage", which serves as the album opener. "This composition resonates with so many jazz musicians—it’s a classic that we …
Jazz Album Reviews - All About Jazz
WEB2 days ago · Jazz Album Reviews. Our daily album reviews are carefully curated by the All About Jazz staff. You can find more reviews by searching our website or see what's trending on our popular reviews page or read reviews ahead of their published dates on our future articles page. Sign in to customize your My …
John Coltrane Musician - All About Jazz
WEBOct 2, 2024 · John Coltrane. John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young Coltrane spent his early years. His father, John Robert Coltrane, died in 1939, leaving twelve year-old John and his mother on their …
Count Basie Musician - All About Jazz
WEBSep 20, 2024 · Count Basie died of cancer at 79. Along with a number of Grammy awards the Count and his big bands won the following Jazz polls: Esquire’s Silver Award in 1945; Down Beat reader’s poll in 1955, ’57-’59; Metronome Poll ’58-’60; Down Beat Critics Poll ’54-’57; Playboy All Stars’ All Stars ’59. As pianist Basie won the ...
A Brief History of the Blues article - All About Jazz
WEBAug 16, 2005 · The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today. Unlike jazz, the blues didn't spread out significantly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and '40s. Once the Delta blues made their way up ...
Chris Potter Musician - All About Jazz
WEBOct 1, 2024 · A world-class soloist, accomplished composer and formidable bandleader, saxophonist Chris Potter has emerged as a leading light of his generation. Down Beat called him "One of the most studied (and copied) saxophonists on the planet" while Jazz Times identified him as "a figure of international renown." Jazz sax …
Art Blakey Musician - All About Jazz
WEBSep 30, 2024 · Art Blakey. Born in 1919, Art Blakey began his musical career, as did many jazz musicians, in the church. The foster son of a devout Seventh Day Adventist Family, Art learned the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age. But as Art himself told it so many times, his career on the piano ended at the wrong end of a pistol ...
Sun Ra Musician - All About Jazz
WEBSep 9, 2024 · On the other hand, Sun Ra was the first jazz musician to perform on electronic keyboards (56), the first to pursue full-scale collective improvisation in a big band setting, and his preoccupation with space travel as a compositional subject predated bands like Weather Report by about 15 years.All this from …
Louis Armstrong Musician - All About Jazz
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Vital and productive from the 1920s to the 1960s, Louis Armstrong provided jazz with its quantum leap forward - his Hot Five and Hot Seven group recordings for the OKeh Records label between 1925 and 1928. They were the culmination of all he had accomplished in music to that point. Born in abject poverty in the worst black slum in …