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Ralph Bowen: The Power Play

by Diana Kondrashin
April 9, 2013

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 his recordings as a leader, just like it was done last year with Total Eclipse, an album recorded with his quartet: organist Jared Gold, guitarist ...

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Dexter Gordon: "Ernie's Tune"

April 9, 2013

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 ...

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Nels Cline: Finding Others

by Ted Harms
April 8, 2013

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, ...

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A dialogo con Claudio Cojaniz

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 8, 2013

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 ...

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Creed Taylor on Phil Ramone

April 4, 2013

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 ...

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Interview with Peter Gotcher, Executive Chairman of Dolby Laboratories and Chairman of Topspin Media

April 2, 2013

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 ...

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Storia di un processo evolutivo: intervista a Luciano Biondini

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 28, 2013

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, ...

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Bringing Together Latin Jazz, Salsa, and New Orleans: Jamie Dubberly and Orquesta Dharma

March 28, 2013

Taking a musical project from idea to reality is certainly a process that involves a number of different resources. On the one hand, time is a major factor – individuals not only need to out in the time for logistics, but they also just need space to dedicate some creative energy to the cultivation of their ...

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David Amram on Gregory Corso

March 28, 2013

David Amram [pictured] is one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation scene and a forefather of the countculture movement of the '60s. Not only was the French hornist and composer there in the '50s, he was part of the Beats' inner circle. Yesterday—March 26—Beat poet Gregory Corso would have been 83 (he died ...

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Interview: Benji Rogers of PledgeMusic

March 26, 2013

From interviews conducted by live music streaming startup LiveMusicStage at SXSW 2013. They were streamed live on Austin Tech Talk from the LiveMusicStage booth at digitalmusic.org's lounge. Here's a video of the full interview. Excerpts are below: Benji Rogers from Pledge Music @ Austin Tech Talk SXSW 2013 “99% of PledgeMusic artists launch with a charitable ...