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Improved Searching at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You

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All About Jazz and Jazz Near You readers can now conduct either a website database search or a Google relevancy search from one convenient location by clicking the magnifying glass icon to the left of “Home" directly under “all about jazz" (or “jazz near you") on every page. In addition to fast access to multiple search ...
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INTERVIEW

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mezz Mezzrow

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All About Jazz is celebrating Mezz Mezzrow's birthday today!

Mezz Mezzrow was born in Chicago in 1899 and was one of that city\'s most popular clarinetists during the golden jazz age of the twenties. Many of Mezzrow\'s records reveal his deep feeling for the blues and his playing is characterized by well-thought lines, frequent agility and ...
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TV / FILM

Low Down - Opens Friday 11/14 Ritz At The Bourse Theatre in Philadelphia

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Low Down stars John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headley, Caleb Landry Jones and Flea. Opens: Friday November 14 Ritz at the Bourse Theatre
400 Ranstead St
Philadelphia, PA 19106 Low Down, based on Amy-Jo Albanyโ€™s powerful memoir of growing up in the care of her gifted, ...
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VIDEO / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Trip to "Swing Xing" with Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo

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If you enjoy jazz guitar played in a traditional style, today's post might be right up your alley, as we feature not one, not two, but three guitarists - Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo - who will be performing together in a show called “Swing Xing: Three Generations of Jazz Guitar" next Saturday, November ...
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INTERVIEW

Jazz Musician of the Day: Russell Malone

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All About Jazz is celebrating Russell Malone's birthday today! Russell Malone\'s first guitar was a plastic green toy his mother bought him. Only four years old, Malone strummed the little guitar all day long for days on end trying to emulate the sounds he had heard from guitarists at church in Albany, Georgia. As a child, ...
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FESTIVAL

Jazztopad Hosts Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders And Mulatu Astatke, 13 - 23 November

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Jazztopad, the internationally renowned Polish jazz festival held in jny:Wroclaw, returns for its 11th edition from 13 โ€“ 23 November 2014. This year promises to be a tremendously exciting festival, with the usual mixture of jazz legends, up-and-coming talent, World Premieres, international showcases and much more besides. Trumpeter Nate Wooley gets the festival underway on the ...
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OBITUARY

Manitas De Plata Dies At 93; Gypsy Master Of Flamenco Guitar

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Flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata, who sold nearly 100 million records worldwide and broke boundaries for Gypsy musicians, has died in southern France. He was 93. De Plata died Wednesday in a Montpellier retirement home, said his great-nephew Ricao Bissiere. De Plata sold about 93 million records in a career that spanned more than half a ...
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OBITUARY

Rick Rosas Dies At 65; Longtime Studio Musician

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Rick Rosas, a longtime studio musician who in recent years played bass guitar with Neil Young as well as a reunited Buffalo Springfield, died Thursday in Los Angeles of complications from lung disease. He was 65. A spokeswoman for Lookout Management, which represents Young, confirmed Rosas' death. A Los Angeles native born Sept. 10, 1949, Rosas ...
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Born Today

  • Jesse Davis   b. 1965
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    Jesse Davis
    b.1965
    sax, alto
  • Oscar Utterstrom   b. 1980
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    Oscar Utterstrom
    b.1980
    trombone
  • Mezz Mezzrow   b. 1899
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    Mezz Mezzrow
    1899 - 1972
    clarinet
  • John Wojciechowski   b. 1973
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    John Wojciechowski
    b.1973
    saxophone
  • Muggsy Spanier   b. 1906
    Muggsy Spanier
    1906 - 1967
    cornet
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