Interview News

KPOO 89.5 "Live" on-Air Interview with Gemini Soul with Ajamu Akinyele - March 12th @ 7 AM (Cyber Jazz)

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2007

KPOO 89.5 FM to interview Cyber Jazz recording artists Gemini Soul w/ Ajamu Akinyele on the Morning Drive Radio Show; Monday - March 12th Gemini Soul w/ Ajamu Akinyele “Live" On-Air Interview Monday - March 12, 2007 KPOO 89.5 FM The Morning Drive Show w/ host DJ Feeve' Wells Tune-In on the Dial: 89.5 FM or www.kpoo.com San Francisco, CA Live Line: 415-346-5376 or ...

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New Jazz Interview Podcast: The Jazz Session

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2007

All About Jazz contributor and longtime broadcaster/podcaster Jason Crane launched a new jazz interview podcast this week. The Jazz Session (thejazzsession.com) features conversations with musicians, writers, broadcasters, podcasters and more, taking listeners behind the scenes and into the lives of the people who play and love jazz.

Show #1 features tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart. Stewart has been in New York for the past 16 years, since moving there from his native Toronto. He's played with quite a roster of jazz ...

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Saxophonist Rob Reddy Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 26, 2007

Rob Reddy's one of the prominent soprano saxophonists working today, but his reputation has been built upon his work as bandleader and, especially, as a composer. He's been a presence in New York for 20 years now, having studied with soprano player Dave Liebman and reedsman Makanda Ken McIntyre before graduating from the first-ever jazz program at Greenwich Village's New School.

AAJ Contributing Editor Paul Olson recently spoke at length with Reddy about his recent album, A Hundred Jumping Devils, ...

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Pianist Brad Mehldau Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2007

It's not easy to be a musician these days. There may well be more critics than musicians, but looking at any genre's past there's an enormous amount of music created by thousands of musicians. Still, very few of them can be considered groundbreaking artists who have expanded, informed and enlivened the genre they work in. Ironically, some of the things that have made pianist Brad Mehldau popular inside and outside the jazz tradition are his non-jazz instincts and musical tastes. ...

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Bassist Steve Swallow Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2007

Steve Swallow is more than just an innovator on electric bass: he's a composer who has written many contemporary jazz classics including “Arise, Her Eyes," “Hullo Bolinas" and “Falling Grace." He's enjoyed long musical associations with vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist/composer/arranger Carla Bley, as well as more occasional projects with John Taylor, John Scofield and Paul Motian.

But his artistic associations go beyond the musical.

For 30 years Swallow was friends with poet Robert Creeley, who passed away in 2005. ...

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Yellowjackets Keyboardist Russell Ferrante Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2007

2006 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Yellowjackets. It has been a quarter of a century of continuous evolution, both musically and in terms of changes in band personnel.

From their R&B beginnings with guitarist Robben Ford in '81 right through to the sophisticated and utterly distinctive brand of jazz that they play today, the Yellowjackets have moved with the times, absorbing different aspects of world music and adding new rhythms and influences to the pot.

Keyboardist Russell Ferrante took ...

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Pianist Michele Rosewoman Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 5, 2007

From Oakland CA, pianist/composer/educator Michele Rosewoman began playing piano at age six. Prior to moving to New York and while still in her late teens she began playing percussion and studied Cuban/Haitian folkloric idioms. In New York Rosewoman formed new ensembles, while nurturing associations with notable New York-based artists such as Julius Hemphill, Carlos Ward, Rufus Reid, Reggie Workman, Freddie Waits, James Spaulding and Billy Hart. In the Latin music genre, Rosewoman has performed with Cuban master drummer/vocalist Orlando “Puntilla" ...

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Violinist Mark Feldman Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2007

In his twenty years in New York City, violinist Mark Feldman's played a dizzying number of gigs and sessions with trumpeter Dave Douglas, pianist Uri Caine, saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Billy Hart, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, bassist Mark Dresser, and of course, saxophonist John Zorn, with whom Feldman has had a particularly fruitful association.

For his first solo release on ECM, What Exit (ECM, 2006), the veteran violinist put together a trans-Atlantic dream band: British pianist John Taylor, Swedish bassist ...

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