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Francesco Diodati e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Francesco Diodati: In continua evoluzione e trasformazione. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. F.D.: La voglia di rischiare e mettersi in gioco. La propensione a suonare con gli altri, per la musica ...
Rick Hannah: Handful Of Strings
by Budd Kopman
The guitar is a deceptively simple instrument to play, as any teenager who learns the basic strumming chords, and then tries to go beyond that, in any style, will tell you. It hints at being self-contained, that the player can accompany himself. Contrapuntally however, the piano, which allows two independent hands, dwarfs the guitar, even in ...
AA.VV.: Jazz from America on Disques Vogue
by Maurizio Zerbo
La Sony ha pubblicato un cofanetto che l'appassionato di jazz farebbe bene a non lasciarsi sfuggire. Articolato in venti CD, il cofanetto racchiude ben quarantuno dischi originali della Vogue Records. Fondata nel 1947 dal critico Charles Delaunay, la label francese si distinse per una lungimirante progettualità rivolta sia a far incidere i grandi jazzisti ...
Top Ten Guitarists Who Left Us Too Soon
by Alan Bryson
Ranking musicians is a hopelessly flawed endeavor. It's about as meaningful as having a list of the top ten best tasting foods. Taste is highly individualized, influenced by mood, familiarity, and the way in which multiple variables interact. One person's escargot is someone else's slice of Chicago style pizza. I just took a break and searched ...
Michael Gibbs & The NDR Big Band: Play a Bill Frisell Set List / In My View
by Ian Patterson
Though his recording career dates back to the early 1960s, Zimbabwe-born arranger, composer and musician Michael Gibbs hasn't always been as prolific as a leader as he might have been. Five albums in the first half the 1970 represented his most industrious period of creativity, as teaching, television and film work and arranging for a surprisingly ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Christian
All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Christian's birthday today! As the man who popularized the guitar in a jazz setting, his legacy lives on. Charlie Christian was born on July 29, 1916 in Bonham, Texas but was raised in Oklahoma City from the time he was two years old. Charlie\'s immediate family were all musically talented ...
Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience
by Bill Dal Cerro
The following is an excerpt from the “Lennie Tristano: The Passionate Intellectual" chapter of Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience by Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter (Bella Musica Publishing, 2015). World War II and the atomic bomb changed not only the political landscape, but art, architecture ...
Uncommon jazz trio is spellbinding
There is a notable, and rather robust, roster of jazz-playing siblings through the years. A much leaner list of identical twins playing jazz shows that most play different instruments. That makes sense. If you are working together a lot as budding musicians, you need a variety of position players in a band. Peter and Will Anderson ...
A guitar master's take on jazz - It's about much so more than the music
Guitarist Pat Martino quickly set the tone with a blistering revisit of the boppish “Lean Years" at his concert Wednesday, February 4 with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra. “Lean Years," which first appeared on Martino's 1967 Prestige album Strings!, remains one of his signature tunes. The program also included two other Martino originals ("Inside Out" and ...
The Art of the Guitar: Samo Salamon, Christer Fredriksen, Rez Abbasi & Juan Pablo Hernández
by Jakob Baekgaard
The guitar is an instrument that continues to inspire musicians around the world and since early pioneers like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian showed the endless possibilities of the instrument, the guitar has also been an important part of the evolution of jazz. One can certainly speak of a genre called jazz guitar, with characteristic chord ...
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