Results for "Interview"

Jim Snidero: A Tale Of Taste

by Dan Bilawsky
July 8, 2013

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
July 8, 2013

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

July 8, 2013

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

July 8, 2013

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
July 4, 2013

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

July 4, 2013

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

July 2, 2013

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 ...

Ray Russell: Playing with Time

by Ian Patterson
July 1, 2013

Each time guitarist/composer Ray Russell releases a new album, it feels like a comeback. Now, More than Ever, Russell's debut on the Abstract Logix label, comes seven years after Goodbye Svengali (Cuneiform Records, 2006), his heartfelt tribute to composer Gil Evans. Although Russell may drop off the radar for periods of time, he's never really far ...

Donny McCaslin: Leggerezza e Gravità

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 1, 2013

Interview: Phil Everly

June 28, 2013

The Everly Brothers were among the most influential vocal groups of the late 1950s and early '60s. Starting with By e Bye Love in '57, the duo transformed the way rock and folk sounded through 1967 after their string of hits crossed over from country to the pop charts. What's especially remarkable about their widespread impact ...