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Interview: Will Friedwald (Part 2)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Each entry in Will Friedwald's new book, A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, goes off like a firecracker. There are no dull openings, there's plenty of mischievous humor and pop-culture references, and most of Will's positions on singers are provocative. And in some cases, you may disagree with his take. That's what makes his “essaypedia" interesting. The reasoning for one singer over another is personal. But each of Will's points is well argued and all are ...
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Max Makes It Happen.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Maxim Micheliov is part of a robust Jazz advocacy community in Vilnius Lithuania that comes highly recommended by friends who have performed there. Max with Roy Campbell jr. 1. Describe your discovery of music. “The sounds of music have always been heard at our home. Both my parents love music. We had a quite big collection of LP discs that included some jazz records along with classical music and easy listening. From early years I was introduced to Louis Armstrong, ...
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Interview: Will Friedwald (Part 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Will Friedwald is one of the most knowledgeable writers on American Songbook singers. Will's byline appears regularly in The Wall Street Journal, and he's author of eight books, including revealing works on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Will also is one of the nicest and most generous people around, and in this business, that's saying something. Will's latest book is A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers (Pantheon). The subtitle of this 811-page bedside companion could easily ...
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Guitarist Fabrizio Sotti Interviewed at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
Recording a jazz album is never easy. Compared to most genres of music, where everything is prearranged and planned out ahead of time, there is a large amount of spontaneity when it comes to laying down a jazz record. Many times, the best takes are the least thought-about beforehand—the ones where improvisational magic just jumps out of every musician, where all the stars align and the music culminates in one of those special moments where high-level improvisation is captured on ...
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Photographer Brian Rasic Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
Good photography can say more than a thousand words—it captures the moment and immortalizes it. Known for his brilliant photography, Serbian-born, London-based photographer Brian Branislav Rasić is known for producing some of rock's most memorable images. For more than three decades, Rasić has photographed the greatest artists in the music world and beyond. Name a few artists, and Brian Rasić has probably photographed them. He has trained his lens on some of the most notable faces of our day: The ...
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Piano Legend Randy Weston Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by the likes of Ahmad Jamal, Cannonball Adderley, Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, Abbey Lincoln, Abdullah Ibrahim and Jimmy Heath amongst others. In 2001, his significance ...
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Singer Akua Allrich Interviewed at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
A native Washingtonian, vocalist Akua Allrich's music flows with a free, natural energy as engaging as her equally ingenuous personality. Although she graduated from Howard University's music department roughly a decade ago, Allrich has only recently thrown herself into forging a musical career. She originally opted not to pursue a singing career and turned instead to the challenges of raising a family and teaching in a private school. In the past few years, however, Allrich has returned to the stage ...
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