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Terri Lyne Carrington: The Long Road
by R.J. DeLuke
"Better Git It in Your Soul," a perspicacious jazz man once communicated in a song title more than half a century ago. Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington wasn't even born yet, but she sure did have it in her soul upon arrival. Long before she was even aware of bassist Charles Mingus, the author of those words, ...
STLJN Interview: Anat Cohen
The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival began as primarily an educational event for local student jazz bands, and although the festival has been booking headlining talent for several years now, the professionals performing at the GSLJF still are involved in putting on workshops and adjudications for the students. As you'd expect, the questions they get from ...
I mondi sonori di Fulvio Sigurtà
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando a gennaio del 2012 è stato eletto “Miglior Nuovo Talento 2011" dal Top Jazz della rivista Musica Jazz, non tutti conoscevano bene Fulvio Sigurtà. Se c'è infatti a volte un po' di pigrizia nell'estendere il proprio sguardo oltre i confini locali, sia quelli geografici che quelli stilistici, si può probabilmente imputare a essa il tardivo ...
Ralph Bowen: The Power Play
by Diana Kondrashin
[Editor's Note: A shorter version of this interview was originally published at Jazz.Ru. It has been translated and expanded exclusively for All About Jazz.]Ralph Bowen was born in Canada but he has pursued a jazz career in the United States for over 20 years, as tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger. He strikes neatly with ...
Dexter Gordon: "Ernie's Tune"
In the late '50s, Jack Gelber wrote a play called The Connection, which dramatized the lure of narcotics and the stark perils of addiction. The play—which opened in New York at the Living Theatre on July 15, 1959—featured jazz musicians who were initially going to improvise music on stage. But when pianist Freddie Redd wrote a ...
Nels Cline: Finding Others
by Ted Harms
Ask 10 people when they first heard of guitarist Nels Cline and you'll get 10 different answers. Maybe it was when he joined award-winning, arena-packing, ever-touring rock band Wilco. Or maybe it was stumbling upon a guitar internet forum where nerd boys and girls go over the minutiae of his expansive and varied effect pedals, amps, ...
A dialogo con Claudio Cojaniz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Appena varcata la soglia dei sessant'anni, Claudio Cojaniz - pianista, compositore, bandleader, scrittore, forte bevitore - mostra un'energia sempre crescente, che lo sta portando a mettersi in gioco in un numero impressionante di nuovi progetti. Lo avevamo lasciato un paio d'anni orsono (clicca qui per leggere la precedente intervista che gli avevamo fatto), ma nel frattempo ...
Creed Taylor on Phil Ramone
Producer Creed Taylor deserves enormous credit for the American bossa nova movement of the early 1960s. Instead of recording jazz artists interpreting the new Rio de Janeiro sound—as many jazz producers at the time were doing—Creed [pictured above] carefully blended the two. By recognizing the jazziness and seductive qualities of Antonio Carlos Jobim's melodies, Creed was ...
Interview with Peter Gotcher, Executive Chairman of Dolby Laboratories and Chairman of Topspin Media
By Emilie Bogrand from the Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Peter Gotcher is Executive Chairman of Dolby Laboratories and Chairman of Topspin Media, Inc. He founded Digidesign Inc. in 1984 and served as its President, CEO and Chairman. He won a Grammy (2000) and an Oscar (2004): both were for Technical Achievement and honored ...
Storia di un processo evolutivo: intervista a Luciano Biondini
by AAJ Italy Staff
Luciano Biondini è uno di quei fisarmonicisti che sono riusciti a conquistare uno spazio significativo nel mondo del jazz affrancando il proprio strumento da aspettative e cliché che lo relegavano ad altri contesti musicali. Grazie ad una ricerca ed uno stile molto personali, Biondini ha gettato un ponte tra vari mondi pur rimanendo fedele e rispettoso, ...
