Interview News

Drummer/Bandleader Kendrick Scott Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2007

Kendrick Scott, at 26, is already one of the very finest drummers on the jazz scene, possessing an open mind, a beautiful feel for melody and tasty style that fits a myriad of situations. He's been working steady with major jazz artists since the day he graduated from Berklee School of Music in 1998. He's grateful for it, but thoughtful about the situation and aware of the consequences that can occur with both ego and complacency. But those attributes don't ...

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Joshua Redman Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 28, 2007

Joshua Redman, one of the most consistently creative musicians of his generation, a fiend on whatever saxophone he chooses to pick up, and a thoughtful, imaginative person, is at it again.

He's not re-inventing the wheel, he says with a chuckle when discussing Back East (Nonesuch, 2007). But this exploring musician has gone back to an acoustic format. Specifically, a piano-less trio, the type of thing Sonny Rollins wowed critics with in the 1950s. Others have done it too. It's ...

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Keith Hall, Marian Petrescu Trio: Interview After the Sibiu Jazz Festival

Source: Sibiu People
May 28, 2007

"Piano trio music, of the kind that we perform anyway, is a very complex musical journey and as you say subtle, like the wings of a butterfly. We love to use dynamics and as you will remember, there are also places in the arrangements where we play quite powerfully. If there is a noisy audience, it nearly always works to play quieter not louder to gain their attention. This is a proven fact and has been used by many top ...

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Waer Interviews Cynthia Basinet

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2007

New York - Public radio station and NPR affiliate WAER.3 in Syracuse, New York will broadcast May 14 at 11am EST, Eric Cohen - jazz programmer's interview with actress/recording artist, Cynthia Basinet (aka “c. basinet"). Known for hits like “Santa Baby" and “Tea For Two". She was also nominated for a Nobel in '05. Cynthia discusses her new CD, “The Collection", life and interests. Interview also available “on demand" Eric Cohen's previous interviews include Wynton Marsalis and Phil Wood. “The ...

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Nicole Mitchell Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2007

Composer, bandleader and flutist Nicole Mitchell isn't quite a household name in jazz circles outside Chicago, but there's not a more talented flute player--or, for that matter, composer, or large-ensemble bandleader--working in improvised music today. It's not surprising she's a co-president of the Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the Chicago collective associated with Windy City improv greats like the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Muhal Richard Abrams and Henry Threadgill, because her own work is a direct continuation of ...

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Singer Patti Austin Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2007

Patti Austin began her incandescent career at the age of four. The daughter of trombonist Gordon Austin, and goddaughter of Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington, has emerged stronger than ever. After a bout with diabetes, she decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery and the result has been remarkable. She is in superb form both physically and artistically, as evidenced by Avant Gershwin (Rendezvous, 2007), which celebrates some of the most beloved songs written by the ingenious George Gershwin.

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Keyboardist George Colligan Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2007

Although George Colligan is a wildly in-demand musician whose piano, organ and Fender Rhodes have graced the recordings and performances of clarinetist Don Byron, bassist Buster Williams, vocalist Cassandra Wilson, and many other artists, he's also managed to produce a pretty sizable discography as a band leader. While his chops and imagination--coupled with a consistent clarity of thought and touch--make his playing a consistent pleasure to the jazz listener, he's just as good a composer, having written for Chamber Music ...

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Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2007

Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is at the forefront of a younger generation of creative musicians in New York. He combines thrilling improvisation with stealthy composition, unconfined by genre. Best known for his association with Anthony Braxton, Bynum has played a leading role in the realization of the saxophonist's recent oeuvre. There has been a deserved upsurge in Bynum's profile of late, culminating in the release of two excellent, but very different, recordings: True Events (482 Music, 2007), a duet with ...

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