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Adonis Rose: Following The Score Of Higher Power

by Taliya Hafiz
The Orchestrator of Moods The master drummer, composer, producer, artistic director, Adonis Rose seems to have had his mission imprinted in the constellation of stars guiding him throughout his life, reflecting in his encounters, career highlights, and even name and surname initials. A.R. coincides with an AR term in the music industry denoting Artist & Repertoire ...
Simone Guiducci: il ritorno del Gramelot

by Angelo Leonardi
Il recente Mantova Jazz Festival ha visto il ritorno del Gramelot Ensemble di Simone Guiducci, uno dei gruppi più originali del jazz italiano nell'ultimo trentennio. Dopo una lunga pausa, il chitarrista e leader lombardo ha rimesso assieme i membri storici della formazione per quella che non è una riunione celebrativa ma un ritorno in piena regola. ...
Roy Haynes: Still Lighting It Up

by Chris M. Slawecki
This article was first published on All About Jazz in June 1997. Drummer Roy Haynes isn't just cool--he's cooooolllll. In conversation, Roy Haynes is languid and relaxed yet full of fire, yet playful, mysterious and serious. Similarly, his music--and he's played alongside the best--is simultaneously passionate and precise, free-swinging and loose, but ...
Roy Haynes Revisited

by AAJ Staff
This article was first published on All About Jazz in January 1999. Roy Haynes is one of the few living legends remaining in jazz. He has been awarded the Danish Jazzpar prize, Grammys, and numerous other awards and polls. Haynes is the most versatile drummer in jazz history, do in most part to his ...
A Fireside Chat With Lou Donaldson

by AAJ Staff
This interview was originally published on All About Jazz in December 2002. Some years back, before he passed, Andy Simpkins and I spoke about his journey and I recall how fondly he spoke of Lou Donaldson. I told Simpkins that most of the things I read about Donaldson are prefaced by Charlie Parker and ...
Ben Sidran: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing State

by Dean Nardi
Beyond Ben Sidran's appreciable talents as an accomplished composer and performer in jazz, blues, ragtime and several other styles, he is also a highly proficient producer (Richie Cole, Phil Upchurch, Lee Konitz, Georgie Fame, Michael Franks, Rickie Lee Jones, Mose Allison), an author, podcaster, radio and television host and a historian. He was part of the ...
Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz

by K. Shackelford
In the '90s, fierce jazz curator, flutist, and educator Lonnie Davis found herself as the only female in The University of New Orleans jazz program. Prior to that, she studied under jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis while a high school student at the highly selective and musically rigorous New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The brilliant music ...
Frank van Berkel: 50 Years of Bimhuis Jazz

by Nenad Georgievski
The Bimhuis, Amsterdam's renowned jazz venue, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this October. The club will host a month-long program packed with over 50 concerts, exhibitions, and special events to mark five decades of its profound influence on the jazz scene in the Netherlands and beyond. Musicians such as Sun Ra Arkestra, Tineke Postma and Hans ...
Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art

by K. Shackelford
Imani-Grace Cooper is a vividly impressive vocal talent. Although she lends her voice to diverse musical genres, she has an ethereal execution of jazz that charmingly raises the eyebrow and puts a pleasurable smirk on her listener's face. Musicians dig her a lot. You can see them smiling when she's singing--she understands the idiom of jazz, ...
Jimmy Katz & Luciano Rossetti: Il Doppio Ritmo Della Fotografia Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
Jimmy Katz e Luciano Rossetti sono due dei massimi fotografi di jazz di oggi. I loro non sono scatti di cronaca, ma quel tipo di istantanee e ritratti che portano alla mente il famoso detto Un'immagine vale più di mille parole." Amici di lunga data, Katz e Rossetti hanno spesso collaborato a livello didattico ed espositivo. ...