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Bob Funk (Jazz Explorers - Jazz My Soul ) Radio Interview 4/25 with Bob Putignano on Wfdu - FM

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2007

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British Bandleader/Composer/Arranger Graham Collier Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2007

Graham Collier is seventy this year. In the course of his career he has, perhaps, unusually become more expansive in his musical outlook, fashioning pieces for ensembles larger than those he was working with during the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period which is effectively the high water mark of the documentation of his music on record.

AAJ Contributor Nic Jones interviewed Collier recently, and the two cover a lot of ground, from past successes to future endeavors.

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Guitarist Rez Abbasi Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 16, 2007

India-born and California-raised, guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi--a resident of New York City for over a decade now--has been perfecting his own unique East-meets-West musical hybrid of Indian and jazz musics for some time. With the releases of Snake Charmer (Earth Sounds, 2005) and Bazaar (Zoho Music, 2006), he's perfected his formula, in part because his core group of drummer Danny Weiss, organist Gary Versace and vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia--supported on the former by master soprano sax player Dave Liebman and on the ...

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French Pianist Giullaume de Chassy Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2007

February 2007, Paris: Pianist Guillaume de Chassy has just recorded his first solo piano album and he is performing an entirely solo set at the Archipel theater to celebrate its release. If he's nervous, it doesn't show; he jokes easily with the appreciative crowd, leading them through the by-ways of the musical journey that led him to this stage. The easy-going affability is deceptive; when he begins to play, de Chassy is all concentration.

AAJ's man in France, Jeff Dayton-Johnson ...

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Thirsty Ear's Peter Gordon Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2007

Peter Gordon is answering a lot of questions these days. His label, Thirsty Ear Records, is readying for the release of one of its most controversial records yet--and this is the same label that put out records by electronic innovators and hip hop heads DJ Spooky (Optomerty, 2002) and El-P (High Water, 2004) alongside the work of avant-gardists like Tim Berne (Souls Saved Hear, 2004) and William Parker (Luc's Lantern, 2005). Undoubtedly people are struggling to understand Thirsty Ear's latest ...

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The Legendary Joe Zawinul Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2007

"The music seemed fresh. If any of those bands stayed fresh, it was Weather Report, the band of the '70s and early '80s," says legendary keyboardist Joe Zawinul, co-founder, with Wayne Shorter, of the seminal fusion band that leaped to the forefront of the music during that time and hurled it around the globe, winning legions of fans as well as accolades from the critics and media.

Weather Report hasn't played since 1985 when Shorter and Zawinul decided to go ...

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Keyboard Wizard Scott Kinsey Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2007

It has taken fifteen years, but keyboardist Scott Kinsey's eagerly awaited debut recording as leader, Kinesthetics (Abstract Logix, 2006) is out and receiving rave reviews.

Kinsey made his name in Tribal Tech, one of the most important bands in the electro/jazz-fusion scene of the last twenty-five years. Joining Tribal Tech straight out of Berklee, Kinsey remained until the dissolution of the band, a decade and a handful of critically acclaimed albums later.

AAJ contributor Ian Patterson spoke with Kinsey recently ...

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Bassist Scott Colley Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 26, 2007

Scott Colley can be found adding his big-toned, always appropriate contra bass to a number of settings. He's been a staple on the New York music scene for some time now, with older established musicians like Pat Metheny, Andrew Hill, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Clifford Jordan, Herbie Hancock and many, many more. But also with colleagues like Ravi Coltrane, Chris Potter, Dave Binney or Craig Taborn.

In conjunction with the release of his latest album as a leader, ...

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