Results for "Interview"

Interview: Nils Lindberg

May 21, 2013

Yesterday I posted on composer, arranger and pianist Nils Lindberg's 1963 album Trisection, a superb but almost unknown orchestral jazz recording. I also provided a bit of background on Sweden's 100-year love affair with jazz. Today, a conversation with Nils on Sax Appeal (1960) and Trisection (1963)—two of his early jazz albums recorded in Stockholm: JazzWax: ...

Arve Henriksen: The Trumpet is My Pen

by Nenad Georgievski
May 20, 2013

Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen is one of a handful of creative upstarts, like trumpeters Nils Petter Molvær or Erik Truffaz, who are embracing electronics and the improvisational side of jazz in their music. Henriksen's music is an otherworldly amalgamation of different and sometimes opposing elements, with imaginative soundscapes built on the tradition that trumpeter Miles Davis ...

Ben Allison - Michael Blake - Rudy Royston: Union Square

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 20, 2013

Tre dei più attivi, richiesti e interessanti musicisti della scena newyorchese, ossia Ben Allison, Michael Blake e Rudy Royston si ritrovano per la prima volta insieme come trio e decidono di incidere, per l'italianissima Abeat di Mario Caccia, Union Square. Che è gran disco, intimo, avvolgente, compatto nonostante la varietà di situazioni presentate, di atmosfere evocate, ...

Anzic Records Artist Anat Cohen On The Move!

May 17, 2013

Following her sojourn to Istanbul, Turkey to perform and participate in the International Jazz Day Celebration along with Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Esperanza Spalding, and many other celebrated artists, the JJA declared reed virtuoso Anat Cohen “Clarinetist of the Year" for the seventh year in a row, and “Multi-Reeds Player of the Year" for the second ...

Mirko Signorile

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 16, 2013

Dalla fine degli anni Novanta ad oggi Mirko Signorile ha seguito un unico e fondamentale criterio artistico, appagare la propria curiosità. Il pianista barese, classe 1974, nel corso di oltre un decennio ha saputo attingere stimoli e suggestioni da vari paesaggi musicali. Il suo approccio appare quello di un vero viaggiatore che, toccando territori apparentemente lontani, ...

New York Voices: Keeping the Vocal Jazz Flame Burning

by R.J. DeLuke
May 13, 2013

Kim Nazarian went to college in upstate New York for acting, with dreams of the Broadway stage. Some 25 years later, she's enjoying a career that has taken her to stages around the globe--but as a singer. Not just a singer, but one of four that makes up New York Voices, a group that has won ...

Interview: Huey Lewis

May 10, 2013

In the Mansion section of today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I catch up with Huey Lewis in an interview about his Montana ranch. Huey, of course, rocketed to fame and fortune with the release of Sports in late 1983—an iconic rock-soul album that has just been remastered and will be re-issued as a two-CD set ...

John Etheridge: More Than a Legacy

by Bruce Lindsay
May 7, 2013

The home page of guitarist John Etheridge's website reveals that he's involved in seven current projects: nothing too unusual in the life of a contemporary jazz musician. Closer inspection quickly shows that the term “jazz musician" fails miserably to encompass the full range of Etheridge's work. There's his career as a solo performer; his duo with ...

Branford Marsalis

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 6, 2013

Jazz Face: The Beautiful Dreams of Bill Frisell

May 3, 2013

I actually walked out of a Bill Frisell concert (at the Walker) once upon a time. It was just too outside for me. Not sure but I suspect I would stick around if the same music presented itself now. I've enjoyed everything I've heard from the eclectic guitarist ever since, from a quartet with cellist Hank ...