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Spike Wilner On Playing For Listeners

March 23, 2015

Spike Wilner is a pianist who operates two jazz clubs in New York City with his partners Chris Borden and Lee Kostrinsky. Smalls and Mezzrow are within a short walk of one another in Greenwich Village. They present familiar artists like Lew Tabackin, Frank Lacy, Pete Malinverni, Johnny O'Neal and Wilner himself, as well as those ...

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Secondo capitolo per il trio di Giovanni Guidi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 23, 2015

A distanza di un anno da City of Broken Dreams, l'ECM pubblica in questi giorni il nuovo capitolo del trio di Giovanni Guidi con Thomas Morgan e João Lobo, This Is the Day. Un lavoro particolarmente raffinato e maturo, con nuove splendide composizioni e una ricca empatia. Il pianista umbro ce ne parla in quest'intervista.

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Interview: Andy Waddell

March 21, 2015

Q: How do you feel you have developed creatively with your new album, Alive? A: This is an honest trip. It came like Sunday boredom, almost baptismal, a dip in the river after a week’s bend. I've been writing and creating my own music for a long time, but everything on this album came from a ...

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Glenn Zottola: A Jazz Life - Hollywood, the World and the Stars

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 21, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 World-renown trumpeter, saxophonist, musical director, producer and entrepreneur. These are but a mere handful of words that describe the vast talent in Glenn Zottola's bag of musical marvels. There are others: child prodigy, creative genius, “musical natural" and aural savant also percolate rapidly to mind. Now ...

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Glenn Zottola: A Jazz Life - On the Road and In Demand

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 20, 2015

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Glenn Zottola: A Jazz Life - The Early Years

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 19, 2015

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Chantale Gagné: Composer on the Rise

by R.J. DeLuke
March 18, 2015

Chantale Gagné has been locked in with some of the best musicians on the scene since the pianist/composer moved to New York City in 2008. She's an import from Quebec. Raised in a rural part of the province, she cut her teeth in jazz circles in Montreal before moving to the Big Apple. She's not only ...

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Paolo Fresu: con di Bonaventura su ECM

by Libero Farnè
March 16, 2015

Gli americani Ralph Towner e Uri Caine, il cubano Omar Sosa, il tunisino Dhafer Youssef, gli italiani Antonello Salis, Furio Di Castri, Gavino Murgia, Gianluca Petrella, perfino l'organista classico Claudio Astronio e il danzatore Giorgio Rossi... La lista dei nomi con cui Paolo Fresu intreccia duetti con maggiore o minore frequenza (e chissà quanti ne ho ...

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Anton Fig: Behind the Band Stand, Part 1

by Ben Scholz
March 14, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 It's around 3 o'clock in early January, that melancholy time of year where the day perpetually feels like 7 pm. We're standing on West 53rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue around the corner from the entrance to The Ed Sullivan Theater. A light haze of snow is falling ...

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Interview: Damjan Krajacic

March 13, 2015

Q: When did you start playing the flute? Did your family already know you had an interest in music? A: I was a bit late coming to the flute, at 19. My main instrument was electric bass, and I dabbled into classical guitar and piano a bit prior to that. Once I entered college, I was ...