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Innerviewworld.com Interview: Marco Benevento

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

Marco Benevento is a young keyboardist whose jazz-rooted work has expanded to include indie rock, jam band and experimental post-rock influences. Born in 1977 and raised in the northern New Jersey town of Livingston, Benevento studied piano and befriended an aspiring drummer named Joe Russo in a junior high detention hall. After high school, while Russo migrated westward to Boulder, Colorado and fell into the hippie jam band scene there, the more jazz inclined Benevento moved to Boston to attend ...

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Monday Michiru Interview

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2009

Monday Michiru interview This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Cindy Blackman, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Matt Waugh, Bob James, Skip McDonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Billy Bang, Kahil El Zabaar, Michael Ricci (allaboutjazz.com), Val-Inc, Jungle Brothers, KutMasta Kurt, Chico Freeman, Bobby Watson, Eddie Henderson, Dinosaur Jr, Lydia Lunch, Jack Dejohnette, ...

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B.J. Jansen Launches Streaming Online Archive for the "Jazz Life" Radio Interviews

Source: JM Creative
January 23, 2009

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James Carter Interview

Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2009

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Lenny White Interview

Source: All About Jazz
January 21, 2009

Lenny White Interview This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Cindy Blackman, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Matt Waugh, Bob James, Skip Mcdonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Billy Bang, Kahil El Zabaar, Michael Ricci - All About Jazz, Val-Inc, Chico Freeman, Esperanza Spalding, Eddie Henderson, Dinosaur Jr, Lydia ...

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Esperanza Spalding Interview

Source: All About Jazz
January 20, 2009

Author's note: This interview is part of the book project under your skin which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Cindy Blackman, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Matt Waugh, Bob James, Skip Mcdonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Billy Bang, Kahil El Zabaar, Michael Ricci- All About Jazz, Val-Inc, Chico Freeman, Bobby Watson, Eddie Henderson, Dinosaur Jr, Lydia Lunch, Jack Dejohnette, Yves Weyh- Zakarya, Fred Frith, Elliot Sharp, Public Enemy, Blixa Bargeld ( ...

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Drummer/Bandleader Jeff "Tain" Watts Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

The most visible and exciting drummer of his generation, Jeff “Tain" Watts burst into the jazz spotlight in the early '80s as a member of Wynton Marsalis' first quintet and into the general public's eye in the role of Rhythm Jones in Spike Lee's film Mo' Better Blues (1990) and as a member of The Tonight Show band led by Branford Marsalis, in whose quartet he's drummed for over 25 years. Since leaving the world of television and returning to ...

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Interview: Buddy Defranco In '49

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 18, 2009

Sixty years ago this month (January 3, 1949, to be precise), one of the greatest gatherings of jazz musicians took place at an RCA Victor recording studio. The 14 musicians on hand that day were winners of the 1948-49 Metronome magazine readers' poll. Unlike other jazz magazine polls at the time, Metronome had a deal with RCA to record its winners, and the arrangements were crafted to give each star a solo.

In January 1949, the “Metronome All-Stars," as they ...

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