Jazz88 celebrates the birthday of Melissa Aldana, a New York-based saxophonist who has earned praise and recognition from critics and musical peers as one of the most accomplished tenor players on the contemporary jazz scene. Aldana was born in 1988 in Santiago, Chile and was taught to play by her father, renowned saxophonist Marcos Aldana. Discovered by...Read More

Jazz88 celebrates the birthday of pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams, who was born September 19th, 1930 in Chicago. Early on, Abrams worked with a wide variety of musicians from blues artists to saxophonist Dexter Gordon and trumpeter Woody Shaw. In 1965, Abrams was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians,...Read More