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Gilad Atzmon interview - "Free as Bird"

Source: underyourskin
March 13, 2011

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Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith Interviewed at All About Jazz....And More!

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2011

Wadada Leo Smith's career as a creative musician spans more than forty years. The trumpeter/composer's myriad accomplishments have been well-documented, particularly recently, as his recoding and performance career have undergone a marked renaissance, the success of which has shown a spotlight not only on his recent undertakings, but also inspired a reexamination of his past works. At age 70, Smith is as busy as he has ever been performing more regularly now than in his youth, composing, leading multiple ensembles, ...

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Roy Haynes, Master Jazz Drummer, Still Going Strong at 86

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
March 12, 2011

I seem to be on a roll lately with getting bone fide living legends on the phone. This time around, I caught up with Roy Haynes on the eve of his 86th birthday—and just after he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys— at his home on New York's Long Island. To study Haynes' résumé is to basically see the story of jazz unfold before your very eyes. His first gig after leaving Boston at age 19 was with ...

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Interview with $77m Richer CEO of Beyond Oblivion

Source: HypeBot
March 12, 2011

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Interview: SAC President Eddie Schwartz on Licensing File-Sharers

Source: We All Make Music
March 11, 2011

Earlier this week, we posted a link to a proposal by the Songwriters Association of Canada, a non-profit advocacy group that represents the interests of songwriters. The proposal, which essentially provides a model that would make money for rights holders off of file-sharing, has been called an attempt at “control" by P2Pnet and looked at skeptically elsewhere, so we sat down with SAC President Eddie Schwartz to discuss their proposal in greater detail. Our conversation has been edited for content ...

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Marsalis and Blanchard Focus on the New, Not the Tried-and-True

Source: AAJ Staff
March 11, 2011

By Dan Emerson, TwinCities.com Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who led their respective bands Sunday night at Orchestra Hall, don't seem old enough to have had a 40-year musical relationship. But that is the case, Marsalis, 50, told the audience. They met as grade-schoolers at a summer jazz camp in their native New Orleans in 1970, and have been collaborators, off-and-on, ever since. Sunday's concert featured mostly new compositions by the two bandleaders and their colleagues—a refreshing change, ...

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New Orleans Jazz: Charles Betts on the Addictive Music of Harry Connick, Jr.

Source: AAJ Staff
March 11, 2011

Charles Betts, Felix Online New Orleans music is an addiction. Its diversity portrays every emotional state and as the legendary jazz musician Ellis Marsalis puts it, at a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, the sounds of the Bayou represent a celebration of the individual. Put simply, without it life would be emptier. Harry Connick Jr. is arguably the city's most famous living export, having obtained more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history. ...

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Interview | Steve Lehman

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
March 10, 2011

On Friday, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop’s three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series begins. Following interviews with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Vijay Iyer earlier this week, today we share a conversation with saxophonist Steve Lehman. Lehman’s 2009 recording Travail, Transformation, and Flow was praised for creating a dialogue between spectral harmony and jazz—the daring work rightfully earned a spot on numerous critical year-end lists, including the top position in New York Times’ Best Jazz Albums category – and proved the ...

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