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Nonprofit record label bring the world JAZZ from the CLE! Debut release 'Cleveland Time' from Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric feat.

the legendary Tom 'Bones' Malone due 2/19/21!

10/17/2025

Politically outspoken Nigerian saxophonist Fela Kuti (10.15.38 -8.2.97) and his group the Africa 70 innovated the musical genre called Afrobeat; the complex fusion music that blends the traditional Nigerian sounds of Yoruba and Igbo music with American funk and jazz

10/17/2025

Happy birthday to guitarist Howard Alden who turns 67 today, born October 17, 1958 in Newport Beach, CA

10/15/2025

American drummer Art Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) began the famed Jazz Messengers alongside Horace Silver circa 1953; resurrecting the name from his 1947 Blue Note release “Art Blakey’s Messengers”

10/15/2025

Happy birthday to pianist Bill Charlap who turns 59 today, born October 15, 1966 in New York, NY

10/14/2025

After his 1962 move to NYC from Oakland, a then homeless tenor saxophone great Ferrell “Pharoah” Sanders (October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) found shelter with Sun Ra who encouraged his use of the moniker “Pharoah;” a name that Sanders’ grandmother had nearly chosen for him

10/14/2025

Longtime drummer for the Count Basie Orchestra, “Papa” Jo Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985) was a major force in shifting the timekeeping role in jazz from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal

10/13/2025

Despite Charlie Parker’s massive influence among saxophonists at the time, iconic alto saxophonist Lee Konitz (October 13, 1927 – April 15, 2020) exhibited his own unique, understated style and rhythmic approach to the cool jazz and bebop movements

10/13/2025

Inspired by Impressionist composers Debussy and Ravel, Toledo, Ohio born virtuoso pianist Art Tatum (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was one of the very first jazz musicians to incorporate upper chord extensions and substitutions, doing so on record as early as the mid-1930s

10/10/2025

Happy birthday to veteran trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater who turns 83 today, born October 10, 1942 in Urbana, IL

10/10/2025

Jazz giant Thelonious Sphere Monk (10.10.17 – 2.17.82) brought unorthodox technique, jarring harmonic complexity, and a characteristically angular rhythmic approach to the art of bebop piano and the many notable compositions he contributed to the Great American Songbook

10/09/2025

Saxophonist/flautist/multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef (b. William Huddleston, 10.9.20 – 12.23.13) released more than 60 albums as a leader and notably collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie and Cannonball Adderley. Lateef was one of the first artists to blend Eastern music with jazz

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http://www.clevelandtime.org/

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