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Julian Lage: Stepping Into the Limelight
by R.J. DeLuke
A documentary film made in 1996 centers on an eight year-old guitarist who is already a professional and how he mixes that life with everything else, like family and being a kid. At one point, he's shown playing the guitar behind his neck, a la Jimi Hendrix, adroitly picking a melodic line. At another, he lays ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2009-2010 Season
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, announced the 2009-10 season. Programming featuring concerts, education events, broadcasts, touring and a line-up of guest music directors. This is the organizations 23rd season of programming and begins the sixth season in its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Highlights of the season include the Jazz at Lincoln ...
Jazz Video Guy Meets Ray Charles
In conjunction with the Concord Record Group's 2009 reissue of seven classic Ray Charles recordings, pre-production has started on Bret Jazz Video Guy Primack's new Video Podcast series, Ray Charles, Genius. The series, produced with the cooperation of The Ray Charles Marketing Group, will focus on Ray’s music and include interviews with his fellow musicians and ...
Marilyn Crispell: Uncompromising Power and Grace
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Her notes crash like waves at sea on a stormy winter's night; they gently float and slowly fall like early morning mist; yet it's the silence--the silence between the notes--which provides the haunting poetic beauty that is the music of pianist Marilyn Crispell.Lloyd Peterson: Is there a decrease in listeners for creative music today?
Diana Krall's "Quiet Nights" Available March 31
Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene--a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights--Diana Krall's twelfth album--ain't about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night out; she means to stay in. “It's not coy. It's not 'peel me a ...
Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
by R.J. DeLuke
There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...
Venus Records
by Ken Dryden
Venus Records may be sparsely represented in North American record stores, though it has built quite a loyal following among jazz aficionados who frequent online music sources. Tetsuo Hara, the owner and founder of the label, has long been a jazz fan: “When I was a very young man, I listened to many 78-rpm records that ...
Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan
by AAJ Staff
German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...
Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Dream Dance
by John Kelman
Focusing on all-original material, pianist Enrico Pieranunzi's Dream Dance proves that when there's the right chemistry, a group can retain it throughout the years, even if reconvening only occasionally. While not a regular working unit like Keith Jarrett's enduring Standards Trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, Pieranunzi's trio with bassist Marc Johnson and ...
Interview: Billy Joel (Part 1)
At about 12:45 pm yesterday, my office phone rang. When I answered it, a voice at the other end said, “Hi Marc? This is Billy Joel." A friend had told me he shared yesterday's post with the famed singer-songwriter in Miami and that Billy might call to talk about jazz and Just the Way You Are. ...
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