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Skerik continues his collaborative adventures
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Groove Notes
"I very much believe in a collaborative environment, and trying to get a real band where everyone has an equal say in writing the music, arranging the music and shaping the music. That's always been a real priority for me." —Skerik I had the opportunity to speak to saxophonist Skerik by phone this afternoon, on the day of his new release Skerik's Bandalabra: Live at the Royal Room (Royal Potato Family). In this interview, Skerik talks about his early influences, ...
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Interview: Herb Snitzer (PT. 2)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
To wind up with exciting candid photos of jazz musicians, photographer Herb Snitzer [pictured] had to be part big-game hunter and part button-pushing bully. On assignment, Herb developed tricks for making himself invisible and stealthfully moving in on subjects. But he also had to know when to prod a little to stir up a musician's human side. To produce the desired results, Herb had to be fearless, patient, invasive and congenial. In Part 2 of my two-part conversation with Herb, ...
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Thinking About John Gilmore
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
John Gilmore (1931-1995) was a tenor saxophonist highly regarded by leaders in a wide stylistic range. He worked with Earl Hines, Buster Smith, King Kolax, Miles Davis, B.B. King, and Charles Mingus, among many others. Gilmore was equally comfortable playing mainstream tenor with fellow Chicagoan Red Saunders and exploring the planets with Sun Ra. During his time with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the first half of the 1960s, Gilmore's front-line partner was trumpeter Lee Morgan. Blakey, bassist Victor Sproles ...
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Interview: Herb Snitzer (PT. 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
What makes a jazz photographer tick? For years I have admired Herb Snitzer's unorthodox images of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lester Young and many others. Herb's photos always have this “how did he take that?" quality, leaving you both baffled by their execution and grateful for his daring, since they expose new sides of these musicians' personalities. In Part 1 of my two-part conversation with Herb, 79, he talks about life growing up in ...
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Drummer/Percussionist Robert Mehmet Sinan Ikiz Interviewed at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
As an integral member of acclaimed outfits Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Magnus Lindgren Batacuda Jazz and Dan Reed Band, 32-year-old drummer and percussionist Robert Mehmet Sinan Ikiz has already toured the world several times over. The wealth of places, people and musical styles he has encountered on his travels has helped shape the diverse sound of Ikiz's debut recording as a leader, Checking In (Stockholm Jazz Records, 2012). James Pearse spoke with Ikiz recently about the road to Checking In, ...
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Singer Al Jarreau Interviewed at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
In a career now in its fifth decade, singer Al Jarreau's 30 albums as a leader—garnering an almost unprecedented eleven separate Grammy Award nominations and seven wins—have defined him as one of the most popular singers of the past 40 years. Endless positivism in times of trouble, Jarreau's soulful delivery and buoyant stage presence have also made him one of the best-loved vocal performers, regularly crossing genres from jazz to soul to R&B. Esther Berlenga-Ryan spoke with the 72 year-old ...
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Celebrating the Anniversary of Thomas Chapin's Birthday - 55th Year
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Castillo
Today is a Time to Remember a great friend and player, Thomas Chapin who was born on March 9, 1957. He would have been 55 years old. Happy Birthday, Thomas from all of us who knew you and love you—and miss you! Just up on the thomaschapin.com website is an important, new article: “Thomas Chapin and Me, A History and Remembrance" by Bruce Lee Gallanter, NYC downtown music scene insider and unofficial historian/archivist and owner of the Downtown Music Gallery. ...
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Brian Patneaude Adds to Quality Discog with "All Around Us"
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RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
Compositions, as well as the performance, shine again for saxophonist The Capital District region of New York state is pretty rich in musical talent and has a strong jazz scene, even if it's one that suffers the same trials and tribulations as the national scene. One of it's attributes is saxophonist/composer Brian Patneaude, a fine player and arguably the face of the local jazz scene whether he humbly eschews that (and he does) or not. Annuals polls by Metroland and ...
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