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Dave Pell on Boots Brown

June 25, 2013

Yesterday I posted about Shorty Rogers and his rock-and-roll recordings for RCA as Boots Brown and His Blockbusters. Those recordings included the cream of the West Coast jazz scene, including tenor saxophonist Dave Pell. Today, I gave Dave a buzz to find out why Rogers—and everyone else—bothered and shunned credit. First, a word about Dave, who ...

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Miguel Zenon: Celebrating the Music of La Isla

by Steve Bryant
June 24, 2013

For the last decade, saxophonist Miguel Zenón has distinguished himself as one of the most innovative and creative musicians in the modern jazz idiom. The Puerto Rican-born altoist accomplished this feat by reaching back to the musical and cultural traditions of his island. On groundbreaking recordings such as Jibaro (Marsalis Music, 2005) and Esta Plena (Marsalis ...

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Interview: Davide Recchia

June 19, 2013

Q: Where did the interest in music originate from? A: I started becoming interested in music when I listened to some blues artist like Son House, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and many others of that kind of blues. So I start to play my guitar to became a bluesman like that. Q: Were your parents supportive ...

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Jussi Reijonen: Playground of Sound and Texture

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 18, 2013

Jussi Reijonen is an exceptional musician. On his debut recording as a leader, Un (Self Produced, 2012), the Finnish guitarist/oudist has succeeded in crystallizing a spectrum of influences, sounds and textures into a highly personal, sensual mosaic that blurs the distinction between jazz, Middle Eastern traditional music, West African music, and even Finnish folk elements.

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Intervista a Gaetano Partipilo

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 17, 2013

Il sassofonista, compositore e band leader trentottenne di Cassano delle Murge, Gaetano Partipilo, vanta ormai da molti anni una significativa attività concertistica e discografica che lo ha portato a misurarsi, da leader e da sideman, con importanti musicisti del panorama internazionale e nazionale, da Greg Osby, Ralph Alessi e Dave Binney a Gianluca Petrella, Roberto Ottaviano ...

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David Allyn: Where You At?

June 14, 2013

Singer David Allyn joined Jack Teagarden's band in early 1940—just months after Frank Sinatra began singing with Tommy Dorsey. Both singers learned a great deal about phrasing from their trombonist bosses. When Sinatra left Dorsey in '42 to record as a solo artist at Columbia, Allyn went into the Army. After Allyn returned to the States ...

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Wallace Roney: In the Realm of Anti-Gravity

by R.J. DeLuke
June 11, 2013

Much is made of trumpeter Wallace Roney coming from the Miles Davis school, a mentor-protégé situation that blossomed in the 1980s that Roney is very proud of. But that wouldn't be telling the whole story of the Philadelphia native who, in his prime years, has become one of the world's finest trumpet players, and a musician ...

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Christy Doran: New Bag, New Tricks

by Ian Patterson
June 10, 2013

The opening concert at the 14th Bray Jazz Festival in May, just half an hour outside Dublin in County Wicklow, was something of a homecoming gig for Irish guitarist Christy Doran and his quartet New Bag. Doran was born 63 years ago, just a few short miles down the road from Bray, in Greystones, though at ...

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Mark Winkler: Peeling Back the Onion

by Scott Mitchell
June 7, 2013

Mark Winkler is a Los Angeles-based jazz singer, lyricist, and songwriter with over 150 songs to his credit and platinum records hanging on his wall. He has written songs with the likes of saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter and Joshua Redman, as well as pianist David Benoit. Singers Randy Crawford, Dianne Reeves, Lea Salonga, Bob Dorough ...

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Interview: David Crosby

June 7, 2013

A month ago, I spent nearly two hours with David Crosby in New York at the duplex of his friend. The apartment was on a perilously high floor of the Time Warner condo apartments in New York and had a majestic view of Central Park. David was in town to appear with bandmates Stephen Stills and ...