Articles by Cathy Colman
Jayme Stone: Symphonies in a Lightbulb
by Cathy Colman
Jayme Stone, banjo player and composer from Canada, recently won the 2009 Juno Award for Best Music Album of the Year for Africa to Appalachia (Self Published, 2008), a collaboration with musicians from Africa. Stone travelled to Africa to trace the roots of banjo and the characteristics of early styles, which haven't yet made it to the Americas.
He also runs a quartet of his own formation--the Jayme Stone Quartet--which performs works of diverse ...
read moreEdward Manukyan: Jazz From Armenia
by Cathy Colman
All About Jazz: How did it happen that you, being such an inspired jazzman, turned to classical music? And why did it happen as soon as you moved to live in the United States?
Edward Manukyan: I don't think I ever decided to quit jazz. And if you define jazz based on its improvisational, dynamic and harmonic character, then you can still say I'm a jazzman. Of course, I don't play pentatonic and other jazz scales very often ...
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