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Violinist Mark Feldman Interviewed at AAJ
Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and ...
Pianist Howard Riley Interviewed at AAJ
Howard Riley gave his performance in Vilnius, Lithuania in September, 2009. It was his first visit to the country in a five-decade career, and one of just a few eastern Europe destinations made at the time, by the British free jazz pianist. The concert was recorded and released in 2010 as the double-disc set, Solo in ...
Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 1
Jazz writers like to grouse about how nothing changes at the Playboy Jazz Festival from year to year but the names on the program. Yet one can look at this stasis in a different way, as comfort food in bad times, as a ritual that one can depend upon and hopefully will never go away. It ...
Wireless Oligopoly is Smother of Invention
If the people who brought us television had played by the same rules that today's wireless carriers impose wed probably all be listening to the radio. Which is a nice way of saying the wireless industry AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile needs some ground rules that make clear they are common carriers that get the right ...
All-Star Record 'It Ain't My Fault' Aims to Assist the Gulf Coast
Playing to ease the pain: An all-star gathering including rapper Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, Trombone Shorty, Tim Robbins and members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band recently recorded “It Ain't My Fault," a single that is being released to aid the Gulf Coast oil disaster. The high-level finger-pointing in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico ...
Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 2
It's dangerous to speculate which program of the two-day Playboy Jazz Festival will be the better one just by glancing at the lineup. Most of the time, you will be wrong. Someone might be having an off-day, one act doesn't flow comfortably into the next, an overlooked veteran or a newcomer will suddenly get hot, the ...
Denise Donatelli: One of the Best Jazz Singers
I've been DJ'ing a jazz radio show for almost 20 years now and I always love “discovering" a new artist. Quite often, those “new" artists have been performing for years, and I just haven't been fortunate enough to hear them. One such artist is Denise Donatelli. Born to a musical family in Allentown, Pa., Denise started ...
Playing in the Pits
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play in the orchestra pit for a West End musical? Christopher Fish, the cellist who plays in Oliver, has been playing in West End shows for nine years. He's played in 6 shows back to back. You'll find his name on the CDs of the cast ...
Starbucks Announces Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks Coffee Company CEO Howard Schultz announces free Wi-Fi in all Starbucks locations at the Wired Disruptive by Design conference in New York City during a conversation with Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. Starbucks coffee drinks have become synonymous with the high costs consumers are cutting back on these days, but at least the Wi-Fi connections ...
One Theater Geek's Summer at Stagedoor Manor
At age 31, Mickey Rapkin packed his bags and headed to summer camp. But it wasn't just any camp it was Stagedoor Manor, one of the nation's most prestigious theater camps, located in upstate New York. This was where Robert Downey Jr. played Mr. Deusel in a 1976 production of The Dairy of Anne Frank, Natalie ...
