Home » Jazz News
Interview News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Singer/Songwriter David Sylvian Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Source:
All About Jazz
Many artists deliberately avoid taking risks, making changes instead opting for the safe, but David Sylvian is not one of them. Across his illustrious career, Sylvian has always sought to take listeners out of their comfort zone. Self-consciousness and introspection permeate every corner of his works. His mostriveting songs have explored various topics, including spirituality and soul-searching for the modern world. His songs are evocative and fragile, confronting the listener about the challenges inherent in being human.
AAJ Contributor Nenad ...
Continue Reading
Who is Sue Menhart, Recognized as Being One of Indie Music's Top 25 for 2010
Source:
Just Roots PR
Sue Menhart recently made Indie Music's list of top 25 best indie band's for 2010, and her song “Why You Love Me" a “Top 25 of 2010." This prestigious award is presented each year in January to honor excellence and achievement in independent music. The very best song entries receive nominations during 3 rounds of competition throughout the year, with Finalist Nominations officially announced in November. Top 25 winners are chosen the “old school" way - industry professionals on Indie ...
Continue Reading
Photostory13: Harry Edison
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
This 1997 image of Harry “Sweets" Edison by photographer Paul Slaughter is a study in contrasts. The creases in Edison's eyes are piercing yet seductive. His smile is broad but also slightly pained. What we see here is a swinging legend late in life, relentlessly devoted to his music and the joy it brought fans. Edison was a durable member of Count Basie's band starting in 1938. When Basie folded the orchestra in 1950, Edison became house trumpeter for Norman ...
Continue Reading
Vibraphonist Mike Mainieri Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Source:
All About Jazz
It's hard to imagine vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in his seventies. Not only does he look and sound like a man 10 years (or more) his junior, but a quick look at the projects he's been involved in over the past few years sound like anything but a septuagenarian resting on his not inconsiderable laurels.
Mainieri may not have the instant name recognition of peers like Gary Burton, or even younger players like Joe Locke, Stefon Harris or Steve Nelson, but ...
Continue Reading
A Jazz Singer Saunters Through Old and New
Source:
Michael Ricci
Giacomo Gates approaches jazz singing with a showmans poise and an aficionados zeal. Holding court on Wednesday night in the mezzanine lounge of the Kitano New York Hotel, he was solicitous but cool. He wanted to let his listeners in on a secret, bring them into his confidence. With his deep, cognac baritone and his vintage-hipster lexicon, he seemed an appreciative throwback, eager to share credit with his precursors while mindful of keeping a little for himself. Opening with Melodious ...
Continue Reading
An Unusual Duo Tests Conventional Song Forms
Source:
Michael Ricci
Creative friction that playfully undercuts conventional song forms in a search of greater expressive latitude might describe the collaboration of Michael Winther, a theater singer of impeccable taste and polish, and the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer in their show, Songs and Variations, at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening. Mr. Winther, a tenor known for interpreting the work of younger songwriters in a post-Sondheim tradition of literate introspection, and Mr. Tepfer, a pianist and composer whose style merges classical and ...
Continue Reading
Is Avant-Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp His Own Worst Enemy?
Source:
All About Jazz @ Spinner
By Tad Hendrickson Matthew Shipp has a great new solo album coming out, but it's his mouth that once again causes a stir. There's been a rumble in the jazz jungle these last few weeks as a new Jazztimes article on the experimental pianist makes the rounds. There has been a number of posts here at All About Jazz with a lot of back-and-forth about comments Shipp made, some new and some published previously. According to Shipp, both Wayne Shorter's ...
Continue Reading
Interview: Dick Hyman (Part 3)
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
Pianist Dick Hyman is as precise with his words as he is with his notes. During our conversation, Dick often stopped mid-sentence momentarily when answering a question, as if rolling his choice of words around in his palm before selecting them. His pauses weren't abrupt or disconcerting. They were lyrical, like his playing, coming almost like quarter-note rests in a swinging measure of music. What's even more interesting about these pauses is that there were no “uhhhs" or other unconscious ...
Continue Reading
