Interview News

Michael White Quintet 'S Music and Interview Airing on CKCUFM "Now's the Time"

Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2008

Michael White Quintet 's Music and Interview on CKCUFM “Now's The Time" Tune into Now's the Time on Thursday, January 24 as host Andrew Forbes presents the music of the Michael White Quintet, as well as recordings spanning White's career, and an interview with the musicians. Now's the Time is a weekly journey into the outer spaceways of improvised music, hosted by members of the Improvised Music Collective in Ottawa, ...

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Vocalist Jay Clayton Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2008

Jay Clayton's career as a singer defies easy classification. True, she most often sings jazz, but she's also collaborated with two of the most prominent modern composers of art music--Steve Reich and John Cage. Even when it comes to jazz, her palette is nothing if not diverse; she is as comfortable with free improvisation and electronic music as with standards. After performing for more than two decades in New York, Clayton moved to Seattle in 1982 to head up a ...

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Vocalist Paula Cole Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 22, 2008

Paula Cole is perhaps one of the greatest jazz voices caught in modern-day times. What most vocalists hope to achieve within their art, Paula Cole can do in one song and, more often than not, in one take. With an ability to showcase seemingly effortless and incredible range and control, Cole has achieved mainstream success, winning the Grammy Award for “Best New Artist" in 1997, and garnering several platinum records. Cole is back and better than ever with Courage (Decca, ...

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Bassist Joelle Leandre Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 21, 2008

"You're playing like Jimi Hendrix." That was the nicest compliment that French bassist Jolle Landre received in her first tour of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in late November, 2007. Landre's last solo concert was in Ramallah before an attentive audience that was mostly unfamiliar with her rsum as one of the most creative musicians of the last forty years. “I was on fire that concert," she tells. “Maybe like Hendrix."

Landre is one of those rare musicians that, for ...

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Lionel Loueke Interview on WBGO.org

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2008

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Pianist Jack Reilly Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2008

After nearly three-quarters of a century, Jack Reilly's career is hardly in need of queries from one more interviewers--questions about his past associations, his musical history or his previous recordings and accomplishments. These have been fairly well documented. The accomplished and well-traveled pianist/composer, though undeniably obscure to the general public, has made an indelible mark in both the classical and jazz worlds--especially through his ability to marry two seemingly disparate musical styles, classical and jazz, in ways that continually bring ...

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Keyboardist T Lavitz Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2008

Pianist/keyboardist T Lavitz's School of the Arts (Magnatude, 2007) brings together guitarists Steve Morse and Frank Gambale, drummer Dave Weckl, bassist John Patitucci and violinist Jerry Goodman. It's a mouth-watering line-up which produces some real sparks, with its exhilarating unison playing and virtuoso performances.

Where School of the Arts marks a departure from Lavitz's recorded output so far is that this is an all-acoustic affair. Imagine a hybrid of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Chick Corea Electric Band and the Dixie ...

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Legendary Bassist Miroslav Vitous Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 7, 2008

You can't ask for a more interesting interview subject than Miroslav Vitous, but anyone in search of self-deprecation or false modesty would be best advised to seek elsewhere. Simply put, Miroslav Vitous believes in Miroslav Vitous; he believes--no, knows--that his work is important, and he will not waste a moment pretending otherwise.

In addition to being a founding member of fusion supergroup Weather Report, alongside Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, Vitous produced some marvelous recordings under his own name throughout ...

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