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Guitarist Lage Lund Interviewed at AAJ
Growing up in Norway, a young Lage Lund dreamt of moving to New York, though not to play guitar, but to break dance in the NY subway system. Luckily for jazz guitar fans, this dream was never realized. Instead, Lund picked up the guitar at the age of thirteen and hasn't looked back. Since then, he ...
Guitarist Steve Cardenas Interviewed at AAJ
Kansas City has had a long and storied place in jazz history. From Count Basie, to Charlie Parker and Lester Young, some of the best and brightest in the genre have either been raised or cut their teeth in K.C. While there seems to be an historical tinge to the city whenever its contribution to jazz ...
Singer Christine Tobin and Pianist Liam Noble Discuss "Tapestry Unravelled" at AAJ
Christine Tobin is an uncompromising singer whose distinctive voice has graced the British jazz scene since the mid-1990s. Whether singing her own songs or interpreting the work of others, Tobin brings a unique sensibility to each number; creating atmospheric and, at times, emotionally intense performances. Liam Noble, one of the UK's most original jazz pianists, has ...
34th Annual Telluride Jazz Celebration...It's More Than Jazz
Truly extraordinary moments tend to happen when high-altitude, great attitude and breathtaking mountain beauty mix with great jazz from all the genres. August 6-8, 2010 Telluride Colorado Telluride Jazz Celebration (TJC) has consistently earned national and international favor for featuring the best in classic, mainstream, blues, African and Latin jazz music, and this year will ...
Tyne Stecklein: The Mysterious Dancer of Jackson Memorial "Hold Me"
American pop star Michael Jackson had finally selected the 12 dancers who would be backing him during his O2 Arena gigs. The backing dancers were picked after an X-Factor style competition to discover the most talented movers in the world. As many as 500 potential candidates performed during the three days of intense auditions at the ...
Roman Miroshnichenko: The Independent Music Awards Vox Pop Winner!
Kimberly Bjorklund, president of K&B Entertainment and our Global Partners congratulates Mr. Roman Miroshnichenko on winning the Independent Music awards second category in the Voters Choice awards, called THE PEOPLE VOX POP CHOICE! In January 2010 Roman Miroshnichenko already has won the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards in the category of “World Traditional Song." The song ...
Al Hirt Our Man in New Orleans
Paul Cacia was Al Hirt's lead trumpet player and contracted the brass section for what Al Hirt called his dream band, formed in the fall of 1979. At the time of receiving the phone call to join Al Hirt, Paul Cacia was first trumpet for the Ray Anthony Orchestra, he immediately gave notice. The Al Hirt ...
Drummer Muhammed Ali Interviewed at AAJ
Though not as well known as his brother, drummer Rashied Ali (1935-2009), Muhammad Ali spent the 1970s as one of the busiest drummers in free jazz, primarily working in a cooperative Paris-based quartet with saxophonist Frank Wright, pianist Bobby Few and bassist Alan Silva, and known as the Center of the World Quartet. Born in Philadelphia ...
Legendary Pianist Ahmad Jamal Interviewed at AAJ
Ahmad Jamal, possibly the most influential of living jazz pianists, turned 80 years young on July 2, 2010. It is however, business as usual and instead of celebrating at home in his slippers, Jamal was wowing an audience at the Marciac Jazz festival in France. Jamal is touring now more than ever before, and is in ...
Pete Fountain Salutes the Great Clarinetists
Pete Fountain has reached that enviable stage at which the compilers of catalogues for use in record shops are uncertain whether to list him under “jazz" or in the “popular" category. In fact, Pete's success helps to underline the inherently false implication of this listing system that jazz cannot be popular music in the broadest sense. ...
