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Interview: Andy Waddell
Q: What are your goals as an artist? A: My main goal is to create music that touches people or at least moves someone who is listening. Even if it reaches only one person in the audience, in my mind I have succeeded. Since I am an instrumentalist, obviously the music I write doesn't have any ...
Talking Jazz Guitar With Peter Bernstein and Jimmy Bruno
by Scott Krane
For many years Les Paul held a regular concert at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan on Monday nights. After his death in 2009, others who are loosely considered to be in the same genre as Les Paul's jazz trio have performed the traditional gig at the Iridium. On Monday, July 8, on the ...
Derrick Hodge: Raw, Unabashed Honesty
by DanMichael Reyes
Versatility is a trait that any young musician wishes to attain in his/her career. While the ability to seamlessly flow in and out of any musical situation or genre can be attained by spending countless hours in the shed and listening to an array of records, a unique musical environment helps immensely in shaping a young ...
Jim Snidero: A Tale Of Taste
by Dan Bilawsky
What's the hallmark of quality jazz? If this question was posed to a group of jazz musicians, each person would no doubt give a different answer that would speak to differences in taste. Some would lean on tradition and others might push the idea of innovation, but few, if any, would actually use taste itself as ...
Intervista a Osvaldo Coluccino
by AAJ Italy Staff
Osvaldo Coluccino (1963) è compositore e poeta che unisce, in un solo percorso, due linguaggi che sono parte dello stessa ricerca. Con la poesia Coluccino si è fermato prima. Con la musica, che innesta in radici profonde, insite nelle parole della sua stessa poesia, ancora continua. In forma sempre più materica e impalpabile, come dimostrano le ...
Bill Charlap: West Coast Jazz
West Coast jazz has many definitions, depending on your perspective. To some, this 1950s jazz style conjures up images of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet playing contrapuntal lines at the Haig in Los Angeles. To others, West Coast jazz means Hampton Hawes, Curtis Counce and Harold Land swinging hard at Shelly's Manne Hole. On Thursday July 18, ...
On The Rise, Ryan J Lee
At age two Ryan Lee began beating on the drums, at six he was learning piano from his grandmother, and at 17, Lee knew he was going to be a jazz musician. “I started getting into Jazz when I saw Kenny Garrett at this festival called Rhythm and Ribs in Kansas City. It kind of floored ...
Le affinità elettive di Jakko Jakszyk
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chitarrista, cantante e compositore, Jakko Jakszyk, classe 1958, è oggi un artista arrivato. Un outsider che con un look un po'elvisiano da rocker della prima ora e tanto talento è riuscito ad arrivare in alto. Tanto in alto da agguantare nei primi anni 2000 il ruolo di alter ego del mitico Robert Fripp nella 21st Century ...
Mike Metheny And The Kansas City Trumpet Summit In The Blue Room
A modest man stands behind the spotlight as he lets the audience soak in the tasteful music. He gazes around the room, looks at his band members, smiles, and picks up his trumpet. The joy, passion, and free living spirit suddenly takes over the room as the three trumpet players begin to play in unity. Mike ...
Jazz Vocalist Beats The Odds To Relaunch Singing Career
Columbus, OH: “I've suffered two broken necks and I'm still singing Jazz, not singing the Blues." Eight years after breaking her neck for the second time, experienced Jazz vocalist Kate Ross is relaunching her singing career both on stage and with a planned debut CD. Titled People Make the World Go Round the CD will be ...
