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Anil Prasad: Inner Views, Borderless Perspectives
by Joe Lang
He may not be a household name and you likely won't hear him mentioned in music journalism classes alongside Robert Christgau, Lester Bangs and Anthony DeCurtis. But for those familiar with his work, Anil Prasad is considered among the most knowledgeable, provocative and forward-thinking music journalists in the world today. In 1994, Prasad ...
Author Anil Prasad Interviewed at All About Jazz
He may not be a household name and you likely won't hear him mentioned in music journalism classes alongside Robert Christgau, Lester Bangs and Anthony DeCurtis. But for those familiar with his work, Anil Prasad is considered among the most knowledgeable, provocative and forward-thinking music journalists in the world today. In 1994, Prasad was dissatisfied with ...
Paolo Angeli, Steve Wilson-Bruce Barth, Lee Konitz-Dan Tepfer y Donny McCaslin en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona
by Joan Fargas
Paolo Angeli42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaJamboree9 de noviembre, 2010 Como todo gran festival, el 42 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona da cabida en su programación, además de a las primeras figuras internacionales del momento que pueden llenar grandes auditorios, a una extensa e interesante propuesta de conciertos ...
Taylor Eigsti: Daylight at Midnight
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
It's official: pianist Taylor Eigsti has finally outgrown his “prodigy" label.At 26, with two Concord CDs and numerous sideman recordings behind him, Eigsti has finally made the artistic statement he's intended since his career began at the age of 11. Raised on the American songbook, and indoctrinated early into concerns about the continued viability ...
Take Five With Dave Chisholm
by AAJ Staff
Dave Chisholm is a trumpet player and composer who currently lives in Salt Lake City. He is moving to Rochester, NY in the fall of 2010 to pursue his DMA at the Eastman School of Music. He has his bachelor and masters degrees from the University of Utah. Dave's first album, Radioactive, is coming ...
Michael Leonhart: A Fortunate Son
by Telly Davidson
For most musicians, writers and actors, making the final decision to go against the grain and pursue a paycheck-to-paycheck, month-to-month career as a performing artist is one of the harder choices in life. Yet for trumpeter Michael Leonhart, a life in jazz and art is “all in the family": his father is the noted jazz bassist, ...
Korean Jazz Singer Youn Sun Nah Interviewed at AAJ
Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul. For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and has ...
Youn Sun Nah: Seoul to Soul
by Ian Patterson
Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul.For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and ...
Kat Edmonson: Take To The Sky
by Holly Holmes
Jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson summed up her musical philosophy best when she told journalist Joey Guerra, “I just think good music is good music." The Austin-based singer's album Take To The Sky draws half of its repertoire from America's most timeless Tin Pan Alley songwriters, including the Gershwins and Cole Porter. The other half of the ...
