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Guitarist Kevin Frenette Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
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
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John Kelman
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
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
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
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
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
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Anil Prasad
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
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Ni Kantu by Clifford Allen
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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Interview: Steve Knopper of Rolling Stone and Appetite for Self-Destruction (PT. 4)
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HypeBot
Read Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3 Kyle Bylin: In a desperate attempt to preserve existing cultural and social norms or potential damage to the current social institution, the traditional record industry has gone to war with everything from the phonograph to player pianos to home-taping, claiming that these new technologies would effectively kill of music. All of these innovations, only re-engendered enthusiasm for music. How might the record industry be better off if they had let any “would-be" ...
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All About Jazz Celebrates the North American Release of Nils Petter Molvaer's Hamada
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John Kelman
When released internationally in 2009, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's Hamada was heralded as “anything Molvær has done before," with its “stunning growth and unexpected directional shifts" making “Hamada one of Molvær's most moving and challenging records to date." (John Kelman , All About Jazz). To celebrate Thirsty Ear's North American release of Hamada on August 31, 2010, All About Jazz is providing a bevy of features: Read AAJ Contributor Paul Olson's in-depth 2006 interview with Molvær, Nils ...
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