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| All About Jazz | |
|---|---|
| Title | All About Jazz |
| Category | Music magazine |
| Frequency | Online |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
All About Jazz All About Jazz is an online music publication devoted to jazz and related creative music, providing news, reviews, interviews, and performance listings. Founded in 1995, it operates alongside festivals, record labels, venues, and academic programs in the jazz world, engaging audiences interested in artists such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, and contemporary figures like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Brad Mehldau. Its coverage intersects with institutions including the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Newport Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, and museums such as the Smithsonian Institution.
Launched during the early consumer internet era, the site emerged amid a shift alongside publications like DownBeat, JazzTimes, and The Village Voice toward digital journalism. Early contributors documented events at venues such as Village Vanguard, Blue Note (New York City), and festivals including Montreux Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival. Coverage tracked developments from traditional swing bands associated with Benny Goodman and Count Basie through bebop movements linked to Thelonious Monk and Gillespie Dizzy to free jazz figures like Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. As streaming and download platforms from companies like Apple Inc. and Spotify altered distribution, the publication adapted its model to include multimedia, interviews with artists tied to labels such as Blue Note Records, ECM Records, and Verve Records, and partnerships with nonprofit organizations like Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Coverage spans a wide stylistic spectrum: early New Orleans jazz associated with Louis Armstrong, swing era big bands led by Duke Ellington and Count Basie, bebop innovators Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, hard bop exemplified by Art Blakey and Horace Silver, modal jazz tied to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and cool jazz connected to Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. The site also addresses avant-garde and free jazz pioneers Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and Anthony Braxton; fusion experiments by Miles Davis and Mahavishnu Orchestra members such as John McLaughlin; Latin jazz figures like Tito Puente and Chucho Valdés; and contemporary movements involving Maria Schneider, Kamasi Washington, and Esperanza Spalding. Electronic crossovers with artists on labels like Ninja Tune and producers affiliated with Thom Yorke-style collaborations are also included.
Profiles and interviews range from historical giants—Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole—to modern innovators—Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Tony Williams, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Bix Beiderbecke—and rising stars such as Tigran Hamasyan, Julian Lage, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and Makaya McCraven. The roster includes influential composers and arrangers like Gordon Goodwin, Thad Jones, Gil Evans, Maria Schneider, and educators from Berklee College of Music and The Juilliard School.
Articles explore instrumentation central to jazz performance: brass instruments epitomized by Trumpet players like Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie; reed instruments such as Saxophone exponents John Coltrane and Charlie Parker; rhythm section elements featuring Piano masters Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, Double bass innovators Charles Mingus and Ray Brown, and Drums leaders Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. Coverage examines improvisational techniques linked to Modal jazz and Chord-scale theory as used by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, extended techniques from Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton, polyrhythms associated with Max Roach and Tony Williams, and orchestration approaches demonstrated by Duke Ellington and Gil Evans.
The site reviews landmark albums from labels including Blue Note Records, Verve Records, Impulse! Records, ECM Records, Prestige Records, Riverside Records, and Columbia Records. Significant recordings discussed include Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme, Birth of the Cool, Time Out (The Dave Brubeck Quartet album), Mingus Ah Um, and Head Hunters. Coverage also addresses independent labels such as Pi Recordings, Clean Feed Records, and ECM, and hybrid releases tying jazz to film soundtracks like works by Miles Davis and Bernard Herrmann. The publication engages with broadcast partners including NPR and streaming services operated by Apple Inc. and Spotify.
Coverage encompasses academic and community education centers: Berklee College of Music, Juilliard School, New England Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers University jazz programs, and outreach organizations like Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Articles examine curriculum developments, artist residencies at venues such as Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center, scholarship programs linked to foundations like The Rockefeller Foundation and NEA initiatives, and youth ensembles such as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra and Jazz Education Network projects.
Editorials trace jazz’s influence on popular culture, cinema, and global music scenes from American cities like New Orleans, Chicago, New York City, and Kansas City to international hubs including Paris, London, Tokyo, and Havana. Pieces analyze jazz’s role in civil rights-era intersections with figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and events such as the Civil Rights Movement, its cross-genre dialogue with hip hop artists like Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest, and collaborations with classical institutions including New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The legacy discussions link to archives and museums such as the Institute of Jazz Studies and the Smithsonian Institution collections, and to awards like the Grammy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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