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1 day ago · Morning Cup of Jazz. Jul 5, 2024 6:00 AM – 10:00 AM. With Jesse Chuy Varela. 6:00 AM. Oscar Peterson Trio I've Never Been In Love Before. The Trio - Live from Chicago (Expanded Edition) Verve. 6:05 AM. Jimmy Cleveland Bone Brother. Introducing Jimmy Cleveland And His All Stars Verve Records.
3 days ago · Beginning in New Orleans as dancing music, inventive musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Duke Ellington helped propel jazz into a wide variety of popular music styles. And today, many consider jazz to be the classical music of America.
1 day ago · The Count Basie Orchestra, today directed by Scotty Barnhart, has won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once, won 18 Grammy Awards, performed for kings, queens and other world royalty and appeared in every major jazz festival and major concert hall in the world. Basie started the Count Basie Orchestra in 1935, in Kansas City, Mo.
23 hours ago · Get more of a good thing. Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories and includes your local jazz events calendar. View by program: Roxana Amed, Jasper Høiby, Angelica Sanchez, Chad Taylor & More article by Ludovico Granvassu, published on July 6, 2024 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles.
3 days ago · Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” is well known as a harmonically intricate and melodic masterpiece. Jazz historian and author Ted Gioia said if he could steal a single jazz song and make it his own, it would be “Lush Life.” Less well known is the complex, often dramatic story behind the song.
23 hours ago · Tom Fowler, best known as the bassist for Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention, has died. The musician suffered complications from an aneurysm and passed on July 2. He was 73.
4 days ago · Louis Armstrong, the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history. He was also a bandleader, singer, film star, and comedian. With his great sensitivity, technique, and capacity to express emotion, Armstrong led in the development of jazz into a fine art.
