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Scott Yanow (born 4 October 1954 in New York) is an American jazz commentator. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Growing up near Los Angeles he wanted to be a jazz journalist early, discovering Dixieland in the Danny Kaye movie The Five Pennies and on a daily radio show while in high school. Dixieland or Dixie is a name for the southeastern portion of the USA; see Southern United States, Dixie. Danny Kaye ( January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American award-winning Actor, Singer and Comedian The Five Pennies was a semi-biographical 1959 Film starring Danny Kaye as Cornet player and bandleader Red Nichols. He soon broadened his tastes to the swing idiom and college opened his mind further. Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of Jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United "One day at a used record store, I ran across a $1. 99 Charlie Parker LP that, among other songs, included "White Christmas". " White Christmas " is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. I had never heard of "Groovin’ High" or "A Night in Tunisia", but at least I had heard of "White Christmas"! Playing the album two or three times each day for a week opened my ears and I became quite anxious to learn about all eras of jazz. " A Night in Tunisia " is a Musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band That desire has still not been fully satisfied. [1]”

Shortly after graduating from college, Yanow became the jazz editor for Record Review, being a major participant in all 33 of its issues. Since Record Review closed up shop in June 1984, Yanow has written for many jazz magazines and arts magazines. In recent times, Yanow was interviewed on-camera by CNN about the Monterey Jazz Festival and by Arts & Entertainment for their televised American Masters biography on Dizzy Gillespie. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner Debuting on October 3, 1958, the Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF is one of the longest consecutively running Jazz festivals A&E is a cable and Satellite television network with headquarters in Manhattan and offices in Stamford, Atlanta, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( October 21 1917 &ndash January 6 1993) was an American Jazz Trumpeter

Yanow was a contributor to and co-editor of the second edition of the All Music Guide To Jazz. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. He contributed thousands of additional CD reviews to the third edition, becoming sole editor. He is one of the most prolific jazz record reviewers in history. He continues to contribute to the All Music Guide website.

In addition to his work for the All Music Guide To Jazz, Yanow has written nine books on jazz (see bibliography below.

Yanow has penned over 500 liner notes for many record labels. He has also written artist biographies and press releases for record labels, public relations firms and individual artists.

Yanow has produced a series of CDs for Allegro, worked as a consultant to other labels about their reissue projects, hosted a regular radio show (Jazz After Hours) for KCSN-FM, and worked as the jazz listings editor for the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed

Bibliography

Notes:

  1. ^ Official Site, [1].
Contributions to Magazines
Contributions to Record Labels

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Good Time Jazz was an American Jazz record label The label was founded in 1949 by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles; its first releases were from the Storyville Records is a Denmark based Record label founded in 1950 by Karl Emil Knudsen, a jazz record collector then working for the Copenhagen is a Subsidiary of Japan Victor Company (JVC that produces and distributes music movies and other entertainment products such as Anime and television shows Candid Records was founded as a subsidiary of Archie Bleyer 's Cadence label in New York City in 1960. Fuel 2000 is an American Record label specializing in Licensed Reissues of Jazz, pop and blues Albums from the
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