Interview News

Experimental Guitar Icon Adrian Belew Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
November 10, 2008

Since 1977, Adrian Belew has been a guitar and songwriting innovator in the cutting edge rock field. Spending time in bands with Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Talking Heads, he's also clocked serious studio time with other artists including Paul Simon, Nine Inch Nails, Tom Tom Club, Tori Amos and Herbie Hancock. He's fronted the various incarnations of perennial art rockers King Crimson since 1981, as well as putting together several of his own solo projects.

Belew has continued his ...

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AT&T Skates Through Web 2.0 Interview

Source: All About Jazz
November 9, 2008

So AT&T wireless chief Ralph de la Vega sat on stage at the Web 2.0 conference and was treated so nicely, you'd think that everyone adores AT&T's wireless service. Hmmmmm? Everyone I know who has an iPhone complains about the ridiculous number of dropped calls. Not to mention spotty coverage in many U.S. cities. One audience member did bring up that he has problems in his neighborhood, and de la Vega, instead of admitting AT&T could do better, touted upcoming ...

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Martino Unstrung Neuropsychologist Paul Broks Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
November 5, 2008

Paul Broks is a prominent British neuropsychologist who is featured in the documentary film, Martino Unstrung, where he conducts a real-life study of guitarist Pat Martino's famed memory loss and recovery.

Broks conceived the movie with director Ian Knox, and they completed the film with the help of a grant from the Wellcome Trust. In the film, Broks uses psychological testing, an updated MRI scan of Martino's brain, and other data, to arrive at tentative conclusions about the guitarist's well-known ...

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Martino Unstrung Film Director Ian Knox Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
November 4, 2008

When the rare combination of a serious film director, neuropsychologist and legendary jazz musician join together to make a movie about a catastrophic series of events in the musician's life, the result has the ;potential to be electrifying. That is how the film, Martino Unstrung engages the viewer.

The stories, personalities, and audio-visual images come at the viewer with the relentless rapidity of a Martino guitar run. The result is a driven, honest, and moving narrative that could only have ...

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Jazz Interviews with Joe Sample, Orrin Evans, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and More

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2008

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Guitarist Pat Martino Interviewed About New Film, Martino Unstrung...And More

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2008

A new documentary film about legendary guitarist Pat Martino, Martino Unstrung, focuses on his brain disease--AVM or arteriovenous malformation--emergency surgery, profound memory loss, and miraculous musical and personal recovery. It also presents intimate portraits of Martino, his music, his wife Ayako, his friends across the decades, his family, and important locales in his life.

Martino has been a big part of the jazz scene for so many years that it is easy to take for granted that he is one ...

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Trombonist Benny Powell Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
October 30, 2008

Master trombonist, composer, occasional vocalist and actor, NEA Jazz Master Benny Powell was saluted in 2008 at the All Nite Soul at Saint Peter Church in New York, along with his fellow honoree, pianist Jane Jarvis. A working musician since his early teens in New Orleans and a veteran sideman on hundreds of recording sessions with the likes of Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, at 78 Powell is energetic, quick to laugh and looking ahead to what ...

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New Book Collects Miles Davis Interviews

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 29, 2008

Legendary trumpeter and St. Louis area native Miles Davis is one of the most talked-about and written-about musicians of the late 20th century, and he's now the subject of yet another book, Miles on Miles, which collects 30 interviews from various periods of Davis' storied career.The blurb from publishers Lawrence Hill Books describes the volume as “essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Miles Davis thought about his music, life, and philosophy. Miles on Miles reveals ...

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