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Ralph Towner: The Accidental Guitarist
by Mario Calvitti
This article was first published on All About Jazz on May 16, 2017. Ralph Towner is a rather atypical figure in the vast world of jazz guitar. His instruments of choice are the classical guitar, which when he started, in the '60s, was played almost exclusively by guitarists related to Brazilian music like Charlie ...
Dave McMurray Hears Himself In All Of Detroit's Music
by John Chacona
Saxophonist and composer Dave McMurray has much of the celebrated history of Detroit music in his memory and under his fingers. Now 70, and with four acclaimed releases on the storied Blue Note label, he is arguably at the pinnacle of a long and remarkably varied career. All the strands of that career are ...
Johnathan Blake: “My life Matters” la genesi di un piccolo capolavoro
by Marco Iacoboni
Johnathan Blake è tra i batteristi più autorevoli della scena jazz internazionale. Il suo suono incarna l'energia e la raffinatezza del jazz newyorkese contemporaneo --forte delle collaborazioni con musicisti come Kenny Barron, Bill Frisell, Dr. Lonnie Smith e Tom Harrell --Blake guida un quintetto di straordinario livello, in cui tecnica, sensibilità e interplay si fondono con ...
Roger Glenn: A Lifelong Latin Heart
by Mark Sampson
The photograph shows the hero of this tale, Roger Glenn, sometime in the late 1940s when he was five or six, learning to play the marimba with his father, Tyree. An alumnus of the Swing Era, Tyree Glenn played trombone with Cab Calloway during the orchestra's “Hi-De-Ho" prime between 1939 and 1946 and with the small-group-within-a-group, ...
Igor Willcox: Have Drums, Will Travel
by Joshua Weiner
Brazilian drummer Igor Willcox is fast becoming one of the most interesting young artists in jazz. A string of superb releases with his jazz fusion quartet, which currently includes saxophonist Wagner Barbosa, electric bassist Ricardinho Paraiso, and pianist Erik Escobar, culminated in the 2025 album Time Traveller (Room73 Records, 2025). Music is in Willcox's blood, as ...
Nicole Zuraitis & Dan Pugach: When Jazz Is Like Love
I first hear Nicole Zuraitis dabout three years ago and I was immediately drawn in by the power and charm of her voice. The richness of overtones in her timbre quite literally caresses the ear—even an experienced listener like me—a jazz musician and composer with a few decades in music. This was before her ascent into ...
Mary Halvorson: About the Ghosts in the Guitar
by Dean Nardi
No, guitarheads, recently Mary Halvorson has been inspired to put out records with her Amaryllis sextet more so than some jaggedy, lyrical shredding, but these are pretty darn good jazz records from a tight ensemble consisting of Adam O'Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone) and a rhythm section of Nick Dunston (bass) and Tomas ...
Sivan Arbel: Oneness is the Hopefullest Number
by Dean Nardi
Israeli vocalist and songwriter Sivan Arbel has a unique composition technique, which she calls “squeezing the sponge." It involves absorbing diverse influences and transforming them into her own original and eclectic musical language. Driven by a desire to bring healing and connection through her music, Arbel's December 2024 release on Adhyâropa Records, Oneness, recorded at Kaleidoscope ...
Roberto Bonati: la coerente complessità della creazione
by Libero Farnè
Quando nel dicembre 2008 intervistai per la prima volta Roberto Bonati per All About Jazz, le scelte fondamentali del musicista parmigiano erano già del tutto delineate. L'insegnamento al Conservatorio Arrigo Boito di Parma--dove tuttora tiene i corsi di Composizione Jazz e Tecniche di improvvisazione, oltre a gestire il Mefisto Ensemble, il large ensemble dei corsi di ...
Bryan Stovell: The Secrets Of Viral Jazz
by Kerilie McDowall
Nanaimo, BC's multi-award-winning and highly esteemed Bryan Stovell has been mentoring and developing the talent of Canada's greatest jazz musicians for decades. Stovell's school bands have won numerous provincial and national awards, and his groups have performed in Japan, Europe, the United States, and every major city in Canada. Some of Stovell's former Nanaimo ...
