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Take Five With Dan Papirany
by AAJ Staff
Meet Dan Papirany: I was born in Israel and moved to New Zealand when I was 21. I studied drums for two years and then changed to a piano major. I graduated with a bachelor in jazz performance in 1999 and continued studying to become a high school teacher. In 2011 I moved to QLD, ...
Exclusive: Bill Evans Interview
A few weeks ago I received an email from two ardent Bill Evans fans. James Farber and Larry Goldbert wrote to say they had interviewed Evans back in 1976 for a radio station in Madison, Wis., and asked if I wanted to hear it. I said I'd be happy to and, if I loved it and ...
Eddie Gomez: The Call of the Wild
by Robin Arends
How to survive in jazz music? One of the people who can answer this question is bassist Eddie Gomez. With his 11 year cooperation he was the longest serving sideman of pianist Bill Evans. After interviewing Evans-bassist Chuck Israels in Holland, I called Gomez a few weeks later in his hometown. Twice there was a connection ...
Ralph Towner Solstice: Sound and Shadows
by John Kelman
Ralph Towner SolsticeSound and ShadowsECM Records1977 While it took the label a year or so to define its raison d'être, by 1970/71 Germany's ECM Records had already garnered significant attention for its pristine, transparent sound, and for beginning to redefine the possibilities of what improvised music could be. A group that ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Gomez
All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Gomez's birthday today! Eddie“ Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a jazz bassist. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico; he emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school ...
Roseanna Vitro: Clarity: Music of Clare Fischer
by C. Michael Bailey
Roseanna Vitro is a “singer's singer." What does that mean? It means she is so excellent and still warranting much more attention. Her deep and precise alto is perfectly tuned and balanced. Her phrasing is textbook. This is what a jazz singer sounds like. But Vitro's skill set does not stop at vocal ...
Chick Corea Trio: Trilogy
by John Kelman
Remember when CDs were so expensive to make that record companies would release double albums and remove a track or two, just so that it could fit on a single CD? Well, there may be many negatives about the state of the music industry today---despite this being a time when so much music is being made ...
Vana Gierig: Making Memories
by Neri Pollastri
Quarto CD da leader ed esordio con la Enja per il pianista tedesco Vana Gierig, studi bostoniani e illustri collaborazioni con Eddie Gomez e Wynton Marsalis, oltre che con Paquito D'Rivera, ospite anche in questo Making Memories. Il lavoro ruota attorno al trio di Gierig, che lo vede accanto al batterista Marcello Pellitteri ...
Rafael Rosa: Portrait
by Ian Patterson
In jazz terms Puerto Rico has certainly punched above its weight, producing Juan Tizol--a mainstay of Duke Ellington's bands in the 1930s and 1940s, Eddie Gomez and Manolo Badrena--who came to prominence in the 1960s/1970s through their respective associations with pianist Bill Evans and Weather Report--and latterly David Sanchez. Lesser known--though perhaps that's soon to change--is ...
Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition Draws World's Greatest Upcoming Violinists To Kracow
The first edition of the International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition will be held from July 16-19, as part of the 19th Summer Jazz Festival in Piwnica pod Baranam in Kracow, Poland. In addition to commemorating the great Seifert, the organizers of the competition, which is open to entrants from all over the world, hope that ...
