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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 ...
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 …
Carlos Santana Musician - All About Jazz
WEBJul 20, 2024 · Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock Honored at Kennedy Center (Video) Santana Lands February 21 in a Captivating Set of Greatest Hits! Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Santana Live At Montreux 2011 on a 2DVD set & Blu-ray in a exhilarating set of jazz, Latin, funk, soul and rock 'n' roll. The 23 …
Modern Jazz Quartet Musician - All About Jazz
WEBJul 1, 2021 · Radio & Podcasts The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Third Stream (1956 - 1961) by Russell Perry October 15, 2019. As the Modern Jazz Quartet, members of which were once Dizzy Gillespie's rhythm section in the 1940s, moved into the 1960s, they continued to swing in their own quiet way, even as their music director, pianist John Lewis, explored the third stream, a synthesis of jazz and classical music.
Jazz News - All About Jazz
WEBSeptember 29, 2024. In the world of jazz, where innovation and tradition often dance together in harmonious syncopation, Louis Stringer stands out as a visionary. At just 27, this British jazz/world music prodigy has become a pioneering force, known for his exceptional fusion of West African and South American rhythms with free-flowing jazz.
'I Go Crazy' Singer Paul Davis Dies - All About Jazz
WEBPaul Davis, a singer and songwriter whose soft rock hit “I Go Crazy" stayed on the charts for months after its release in 1977, died Tuesday. He was 60. Davis. Paul Davis' hits included “I Go Crazy," “ '65 Love Affair" and “Cool Night." Davis died of a heart attack at Rush Foundation Hospital in Meridian, the city where he grew up ...
Art Pepper Musician - All About Jazz
WEBJul 16, 2024 · Laurie Pepper expands upon the legend of her late husband, Art Pepper, with the release of Atlanta. The eleventh edition in her Widow's Taste series of uncovered treasures finds the alto saxophonist at an unspecified jazz club in Atlanta, Georgia, during the spring of 1980. Firmly planted in his comeback era, Pepper found comfort and ...
Machito Musician - All About Jazz
WEBMar 1, 2000 · Francisco Gutierrez Grillo was born in Havana, Cuba on Apr16, 1908. He set out to be a singer, and music became his life. He acquired the nickname Machito, as a youngster, though he was called Macho by his close friends. He sang in many local groups, and also became a very proficient clave and maraca …
The Ten Best Jazz Christmas Albums Of All Time
WEBDec 5, 2023 · The Count Basie Orchestra. The Count Basie Orchestra. Concord Records. A standout modern classic in an era where Christmas albums are all-pervasive. While Basie passed away from pancreatic cancer in 1984, his big band orchestra is kept alive in his spirit by alumni directors, in this case Scotty Barnhart.
The Keith Jarrett Trio: Ten Essential Recordings - All About Jazz
WEBJan 15, 2024 · The Keith Jarrett Trio, or The Standards Trio, as it later became known, with Gary Peacock on double bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, is one of the most celebrated and influential jazz trios of all time. The group was formed in 1983 but Jarrett and DeJohnette had been collaborating since the late 1960s when they performed together in Miles Davis ' band.