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Flautist Geni Skendo Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
March 1, 2011

Flautist and shakuhachi master Geni Skendo does not genre-mash so much as genre-crash, like a late-night interloper joining a lame party and livening it up with exotic sound. It's miraculous, this color he brings to anything, given the drab Iron Curtain he exited under on his flight from his native Albania, traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to study at Berklee College of Music in 2002. Shy but my no means timid, he has rendered his jolt of culture shock into a ...

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My Friend Teo

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
February 28, 2011

Contributed by guest blogger Dr. Dave Schroeder, Director of Jazz Studies at NYU Steinhardt I actually organized this interview session with Teo along with John Snyder from Artists House Music and was present at the session to direct traffic. I had gotten to know Teo Macero back in 2003 when I became director of Jazz Studies at NYU. Chico Hamilton, one of my friends and colleagues at the New School, was also a close friend of Teo's and suggested that ...

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Interview with New York Music Director David J. Hahn

Source: MusicianWages.com
February 28, 2011

David J. Hahn is a music director and pianist in New York City. He toured as the conductor of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town (2007 revival, North American tour) and has music directed regionally throughout the United States. He has music directed new works and readings at Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists and the Laurie Beechman Theater and made his music directing debut at Town Hall in 2010. Dave worked as the Assistant Music Director at the New York Stage and Film ...

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Pianist James Lent Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
March 2, 2011

He may not be well-known, but Los Angeles-based pianist, Dr. James Lent has been a mainstay at The Other Side, in the city's Silverlake area, for nearly a decade. He's also not particularly well-recorded, with only one album, 2000's self-produced Blue, to date. But Lent, like so many hard-working musicians for whom the playing's the thing, continues to hone his craft each and every week at the club, helps inspire others as an educator—and, living in LA, had the opportunity ...

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Pianist Roberta Piket Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

Source: DL Media
February 28, 2011

Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. Truly a contemporary player, pushing the envelope, among her accomplishments are eight CDs as a leader, a vocal composition based on the poems of Vladimir Nabokov, performances at some ...

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RYM: Mayra Andrade & Herlin Riley interviews

Source: Rockyoumentally
February 27, 2011

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Dr Cal's Hour of Insight Featuring Mwalim - Monday 2/28 - 4PM

Source: Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
February 27, 2011

NEW YORK—On this Monday at 4PM (EST) Dr. Cal's Hour of Insight, the interviews continue with the music of Mwalim (Wal-leem), playwright and Associated Professor of English & African American Studies at UMass Dartmouth. He has won many Awards. Call in at 4PM (EST) and speak with Mwalim (Wal-leem) on (760) 542-3931. Dr Cal, musician, producer and radio personality has been hosting his show since November 2010. Dr Cal's Hour of Insight offers interviews with established and up and coming ...

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Sonny Rollins Strives for Perfection, Recalls Freezing on "The Bridge"

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
February 26, 2011

Born in 1930, Sonny Rollins grew up in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem and has been at the center of the jazz universe ever since. The saxophonist fell in love with the playing of Coleman Hawkins (who lived in his neighborhood) and Charlie Parker and came to be tutored by the great Thelonious Monk. He played with legends like Miles Davis and Bud Powell before he was 20, and went on to become a legend himself, recording such classic ...

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