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Trumpeter Taylor Haskins Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Source: John Kelman
August 23, 2010

Taylor Haskins is forging more of a career in the jazz world, and it's based on his solid musicianship and flair on the trumpet: a good strong tone, good chops, and a wide array of influences, translating into him being at ease and formidable in many styles, including being plugged-in. In addition to stepping out more on his own as a solo player, he can be found, in recent years, with the likes of Richard Bona, Guillermo Klein, Jamie Baum, ...

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Curlew Founder/Saxophonist George Cartwright Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 13, 2010

George Cartwright can't be forgotten. The triple sax threat is part of the archaeology of modern New York. The downtown scene, just like New Orleans or 52 Street, has its mythology, and, as much as John Zorn, Cartwright figures in that, having come to the city fresh out of The Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York in the late 1970s, bringing with him his trio featuring the equally crucial percussionist David Moss and reed player Michael Lytle. Curlew came ...

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Guitarist Kevin Frenette Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 8, 2010

However cool the surface of his music, Kevin Frenette is not content to serve up any sort of “easy listening." The guitarist grew up in Fall River, a small city in southeastern Massachusetts, but the beauty of his music is akin to a sylvan setting—to enter into it is to traverse a forest trail. Some themes and motifs—"organisms"—are finely formed and highly developed; some are just budding—new ideas still in the rough, offered to the ear as tokens of innovations ...

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Composer/Pianist Julian Joseph Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 7, 2010

Julian Joseph is something of a jazz master of all trades. Pianist, composer, bandleader, arranger, broadcaster and educator, Joseph is constantly busy, always working on new ideas and projects, spreading the word about music, encouraging young performers and generally promoting jazz around the world. With Shadowball Joseph has turned his attention to the relationship between jazz and baseball, bringing the two together in a major jazz opera. In a professional career that started in the mid-'80s Joseph, who is also ...

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Now Hear This: Hal Smith on Zutty Singleton

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
August 22, 2010

Zutty Singleton: Face Drives the Train A friend once remarked that playing in a band with Zutty Singleton “was like trying to stay ahead of a freight train that was bearing down on you." Indeed, when Singleton was inspired, the pulse of his drumming took on the power of a highballing freight! One of the best examples of this forward momentum may be heard on “King Porter Stomp" (Decca 18093), recorded under Singleton's name in New York City on 28 ...

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Deep Passion: Menno Daams - David Lukacs and Friends

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
August 22, 2010

It's been a wonderful day for swinging jazz—tender and hot—because I found these four performances on YouTube. The peerless (and under-heralded) trumpeter, arranger, composer Menno Daams has started his own YouTube channel ("menno779") and its videos include these four delightful performances by the “Daams-Lukacs Orchestra" of jazz classics—homages to Bix, to Louis, and Duke—that are evocations rather than copies even when they seem to be hewing closely to the originals. The orchestra—well-rehearsed without being stiff—is composed of Menno on trumpet ...

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New Innerviews iPhone/iPad App Delivers In-Depth, Immersive Interviews With Jazz and Rock Luminaries

Source: Anil Prasad
August 21, 2010

Innerviews, a pioneering online music magazine located at innerviews.org, and Heuristic Media, a leading mobile app development company, are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Innerviews app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch via the Apple App Store. The Innerviews iPhone/iPad app delivers in-depth, uncompromising interviews with music's most vital and original voices, optimized for mobile reading. Brought to you by the creator of Innerviews.org, the first and longest-running music magazine on the Web, the app explores the ...

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A Tapestry for (from) Bill Dixon

Source: Ni Kantu by Clifford Allen
August 21, 2010

When I mentioned to friends that I would be attending the memorial service for Bill Dixon at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery the last weekend in July, as with any situation where one mentions “death" and “funerals," the response was unequivocally apologetic. Those same people were probably surprised when I said it was something I was looking forward to attending / experiencing and that, after all was said and done, how powerful and enjoyable it was. As speaker Ben ...

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