Results for "Interview"

Lionel Loueke: Creating His Own Lines

by R.J. DeLuke
March 25, 2013

Lionel Loueke, the guitarist from Benin in West Africa who brings to jazz music rich melodic and rhythmic sensibilities influenced from his homeland, always had an eye for inventing his own lines; injecting his own persona into the music even when it was against the rules. Even when he didn't yet realize the magical sounds he ...

Dave Stapleton: la Edition Records decolla

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 25, 2013

#SXSW 2013 Interviews with Bandpage's Chris Wiltsee and CD Baby's Brian Felsen

March 22, 2013

The following excerpts and videos are from 2 days of interviews conducted by Helsinki based streaming company LiveMusicStage at SXSW 2013. These interviews were filmed and streamed live on Austin Tech Talk from the LiveMusicStage booth at digitalmusic.org's lounge. LiveMusicStage is an online venue where fans can participate in interactive live-streamed concerts, broadcast by venues, festivals ...

Jazz Face: Nakatani in St. Paul

March 22, 2013

Tatasuya Nakatani is a mystic of percussion. A native of Osaka based in Easton, PA, he's not only a master of the standard trapset, but a genie who summons other worlds from a formidable arsenal of intended and unintended “instruments" - gongs, cymbals, sticks, mallets, bowls, boxes, bows - pretty much anything one can hold and ...

Chris Bigg: I Always See Music in Colors

by Nenad Georgievski
March 19, 2013

Long considered to be one of the most innovative areas of graphic design, record sleeve art has a history of introducing complex imagery to the mass market. Popular music s, as it is known, is a form of youth culture closely connected to visual culture. Record sleeves have never been only a packaging. In a way, ...

Ci metto il cuore: intervista a Cristina Zavalloni

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2013

Per trovare un'appuntamento per l'intervista Cristina Zavalloni si è dovuta smarcare per un'oretta dalla molteplicità dei suoi impegni. Si sa, non si fa mancare niente: progetti dedicati alla musica classica, interpretazioni di opere liriche, rubriche che parlano di avanguardia italiana. Ma il suo cuore batte per il jazz, e il recente La donna di cristallo ne ...

Duane Allman: Studio Picker

March 15, 2013

The name Duane Allman makes you think of the Allman Brothers Band and the birth of Southern rock—which uses the blues to create long, improvised electric guitar solos. But as I write in today's Wall Street Journal—in a preview of Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, a new seven-CD boxed set—the late guitarist actually paid his dues ...

Lovano at 60

March 15, 2013

Heralded as one of the greats of his generation (my generation), Lovano keeps moving forward. But knows where he came from. Joe Lovano plays the shit out of the saxophone, that much is clear. He's paid all his dues, come up though the ranks, including stints with big bands like Woody Herman. But he doesn't just ...

John Beasley: Everyone Loves John

by Scott Mitchell
March 13, 2013

Keyboardist John Beasley (aka “The Bease" to friends and family) is a musician's musician and one of the busiest professionals in the game. His biography and list of credits are so broad and deep that they could fill an NFL playbook.If NASA or MIT were to invent a device that could measure creative and ...

Jorge Rossy: When Rhythm Becomes Harmony

by Marta Ramon
March 12, 2013

Jorge Rossy arrived at Berklee College of Music in 1990 to study trumpet, despite already being a professional drummer. In Boston, the front line musicians--most of them were his teachers at the school--would hire him to play important gigs. Even with this brief anecdote one can get an idea about the Spanish multi-instrumentalist's special charisma and ...