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Jon Mayer: Nightscape
by Ken Dryden
Jon Mayer was working professionally as a jazz pianist as a teen back in the '50s, while attending the Manhattan School of Music. As well as working as a sideman with Tony Scott, Kenny Dorham, Chet Baker, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan and others, along with taking part in record dates with John Coltrane ...
Arturo Sandoval: A Time for Love
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Years ago, on The Tonight Show, host Johnny Carson asked guest Frank Sinatra what music he enjoyed listening to when “in those romantic moments." Sinatra, to the host's surprise, said he particularly enjoyed the hearing works of Debussy, Ravel and other Impressionists and Romantics. With A Time for Love, trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval steps away from ...
Jazz Goes Green: Musical Explorations On A Secondary Color Of Note
by Dan Bilawsky
With spring taking hold and summer on the way, it's hard to avoid encounters with the color green. The drab gray and white of winter is now no more and a vibrant green color scheme has taken over. A drive along the Long Island Expressway--which leads to Manhattan and some of the greatest jazz clubs in ...
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, ...
Take Five with Ralf Krebs
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ralf Krebs:The native Berliner began his musical career at the age of 11, taking lessons in drumming and latin percussion. He was much in demand as a drummer and percussionist in numerous local bands and counted amongst his influences Salsa, Fusion and the Jazz Rock of the 70s and 80s.His love ...
Come se avesse le ali - Rava e Fresu ricordano Chet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel dicembre 2009 è caduto l'ottantesimo anniversario della nascita di Chet Baker. Nella rubrica Déjà lu, per gentile concessione degli autori e dell'editore, riproponiamo i due interventi di Paolo Fresu ed Enrico Rava apparsi in appendice al libro di Chet Baker “Come se avessi le ali. Le memorie perdute," edito nel luglio 2009 da minimum fax ...
Ricordo di Chet Baker. Con la magia in tasca.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel dicembre 2009 è caduto l'ottantesimo anniversario della nascita di Chet Baker. Nella rubrica Déjà lu, per gentile concessione degli autori e dell'editore, riproponiamo i due interventi di Paolo Fresu ed Enrico Rava apparsi in appendice al libro di Chet Baker “Come se avessi le ali. Le memorie perdute", edito nel luglio 2009 da minimum fax ...
Ricordo di Chet Baker - Qualcosa di incompiuto e sfuggevole
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel dicembre 2009 è caduto l'ottantesimo anniversario della nascita di Chet Baker. Nella rubrica Déjà lu, per gentile concessione degli autori e dell'editore, riproponiamo i due interventi di Paolo Fresu ed Enrico Rava apparsi in appendice al libro di Chet Baker “Come se avessi le ali. Le memorie perdute," edito nel luglio 2009 da minimum fax ...
Hal Galper: E Pluribus Unum
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Hal Galper began his journey into “rubato" playing early on in the new millennium, after a quite vibrant career in the mainstream, playing and recording with the likes of all-star alto saxophonists Phil Woods and Cannonball Adderley, legendary trumpeter Chet Baker and guitarist John Scofield. It hasn't always been a smooth ride. At a show ...
Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes
by Warren Allen
Since he first caught listeners' ears in pianist and composer Krzysztof Komeda's Polish quintets of the 1960s, Tomasz Stanko has grown to be recognized as one of the most sophisticated and distinctive trumpet players in the world. His dark-hued sound and brassy screams hearken to the souls of Miles Davis and Chet Baker, while the context ...
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