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Guitarist Chuck Anderson Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2010

Chuck Anderson's guitar artistry is a cut above the jazz standard. The quality of his execution is so fine that on first hearing, it is literally stunning. His recent CD, Freefall (Dreambox Media, 2010) consists of musical gems--all-original compositions, woven into a tapestry worthy of a master classical guitarist. Yet it is all straight-ahead mainstream jazz played on a Gibson L5 electric guitar in a trio setting.

The question arises as to why he is not better known within the ...

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Terence Blanchard Talks About Miles Davis

Source: Miles Davis Online
April 19, 2010

With more than 29 albums to his credit, including Choices, released in August, Terence Blanchard has established himself as one of the most influential jazz musicians and film score composers of his generation.

The greatest album, ever?

Miles Davis Porgy and Bess. It symbolizes everything that is great about this country and what it means to be an artist. To see two great minds from separate backgrounds Miles Davis and Gil Evans come together and create something so beautiful and ...

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Gerald Clayton Supposes Tradition and Innovation Can Peacefully Exist

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
April 19, 2010

At one-forth the age of jazz, New York based jazz pianist Gerald Clayton stakes his claim in the history and the present of jazz. “Tradition and innovation can peacefully exist", supposes the son of famous bassist John Clayton. However, his biography states, 'with Gerald behind the piano this coexistence anything but peaceful.' 'His dynamic and award-winning sound has been praised in print by the Jazz Times and Los Angeles Times. The New York Times has saluted his ...

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Guitarist Steve Howe Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2010

Steve Howe has been a major figure in contemporary music for over 40 years. He first came to international prominence with Yes; he's a key figure in rock supergroup Asia; and his distinctive guitar style makes him one of the most recognizable players on the scene. His love of jazz is less well-known but it has been a crucial part of his life since he was a teenager. His work with the Steve Howe Trio now gives him a chance ...

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Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 5)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 17, 2010

In 1966, a shift began in Nancy Wilson's choices for Capitol. Like many pop-jazz artists who were striving to stay current in a market overrun by young radio-listening record-buyers, Nancy began to include rock and soul hits of the day. But unlike most pop artists who awkwardly tried to seem with it, Nancy was naturally comfortable in the genre. Actually she was more than comfortable. A Nancy Wilson interpretation of songs like And I Love Him, Sunny, Hurt So Bad ...

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George Wettling's Righteous Rage

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
April 16, 2010

The man in the picture looks serious, intent, but hardly dangerous. He is George Wettling known for his wonderful drumming with Eddie Condon, Max Kaminsky, Jimmy McPartland, Artie Shaw, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Ruby Braff, Pee Wee Russell, Art Hodes, and many others. In my recent, quite amiable discussion of Moldy Figs and Mossy Stones with Nate Chinen, one of my friends, drummer Mike Burgevin, brought up a piece of jazz legend: he had read somewhere that George ...

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Jambase Questionnaire: Jeff Coffin

Source: JamBase
April 17, 2010

Welcome to the second installment of JamBase's new weekly feature where we put a baker's dozen of probing, wide-ranging questions to the bright lights in the jam scene and beyond in order to expose juicy tidbits about their musical minds. If you missed it, the series began last week with Rob Barraco of Dark Star Orchestra. See it here.

Jeff Coffin There's a streamlined intensity to Jeff Coffin. Even when he smiles - and he's got a great one, especially ...

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Under Your Skin Interviews: Antipop Consortium & JG Thirlwell

Source: All About Jazz
April 17, 2010

Antipop Consortium interview JG Thirlwell / Foetus interview This interview is part of the book project under your skin which includes Interviews with: Goran Bregovic, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Kat Dyson, Dinosaur Jr, Malika Zarra, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Lydia Lunch, Lee “Scratch Perry", Pablo Moses, Henry Rollins, Rhonda Smith, Sepultura, ...

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