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All About Jazz Music, Musicians, Bands & Albums All About Jazz Essentials Album Reviews Articles Born Today Contest Giveaways Musicians News Radio & Podcasts Similar Artists Song of the Day + More... EXPLORE SEARCH Near You Sign In Up Donate Celebrating jazz twenty-four seven Featured Shabaka Hutchings At Barbican Hall By Chris May | Live Review May 13, 2024 London’s Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary open-the-gates work on tenor saxophone with Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and the South African-based Shabaka & the Ancestors. But his April 2024 album... Featured Building Back Jazz Brick by Brick in East London By Peter Jones | Live Review May 2, 2024 The most innovative and thrilling jazz currently emerging from the UK is centred on a few grimy, narrow streets on the east side of London. The pioneering work that goes on in this elaborately-graffitied neighbourhood... Featured Ahmad Jamal: An American Classic By Chuck Lenatti | Profile April 30, 2024 Frederick Russell Jones was born on July 2, 1930, to a working-class family in Pittsburgh. His friends called him Fritz. As a boy, he delivered newspapers to Billy Strayhorn’s family. He converted to Islam around 1950 and took the name Ahmad Jamal. Featured Does Jazz History Weigh Too Heavily on Today’s Practitioners? By Ian Patterson | The Big Question April 24, 2024 It is no outlandish claim to say that jazz is obsessed with its pastjust look at the number of tribute albums, songs and concerts inspired by the music’s forbearers, or at the never-ending stream of historical reissues. Featured Lorne Lofsky: Steward of the Canadian Guitar Tradition By John Chacona | Interview April 17, 2024 Guitarist Lorne Lofsky rocketed to fame when It Could Happen To You (Pablo Records, 1981), his debut release as a leader, was produced by fellow Canadian... 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