Cassandra Wilson To Release “Closer To You: The Pop Side”: Scheduled to come out April 7th

Artist: Cassandra Wilson
Album: Closer To You: The Pop Side
Label: Blue Note / EMI
Release Date: April 7th, 2009
Grammy-award winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson will release Closer To You: The Pop Side on April 7th via Blue Note / EMI.
- 2 Grammy Awards, including a February 2009 win for Best Jazz Vocal Album
- New collection of [...]

Thelonious Monk Institute Of Jazz To Host The 2008 International Jazz Competition

Event:
October 26th, 2008
5:00 PM
Kodak Theatre
Hollywood, CA

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has announced that, for the second year in a row, the finals of its 2008 International Jazz Competition will take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. This year’s event will be Oct. 26.
The 2008 competition will be devoted to saxophone players, with the [...]

Famous Women Blues Singers

This article provides information about famous women blues singers, and while there are quite a few of them, All Your Jazz has made a list of the most famous and prominent of them.

1. Ruth Brown
Born: January 1, 1928, Portsmouth, Virginia
Ruth Brown’s smooth vocals made the rhythm and blues charts regularly between 1949 and 1955, and [...]