Results for "Interview"

Ella Fitzgerald Foundation Included Todd Gordon's Story Of Off- And On- Stage Encounters With Ella

March 12, 2013

Todd Gordon tells the story... Preface I became a fan of Ella's music shortly after 'discovering' Frank Sinatra. I had been an avid Beatles fan as a young child, and loved music. One evening - I was 11 years old at the time - my mother said, “You've been listening to your music, I want to ...

Kenny Wheeler: The Making of "Mirrors"

by Ian Patterson
March 11, 2013

It often comes as a surprise to people when they discover that trumpeter/flugelhornist/composer Kenny Wheeler is not British. Well, not British born, for although born in Toronto, Canada, in 1930, Wheeler has spent the last 60 years living in England, which surely makes him as English as Ploughman's Lunch or a pint of bitter. The recording ...

John Medeski, insospettabile solitario

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 11, 2013

John Medeski, virtuoso di Hammond e tastiere varie, è noto in Italia soprattutto per essere una colonna del trio di jazz elettrico o, a seconda dei punti di vista, di post fusion, Medeski, Martin & Wood. In realtà, di John Medeski ne esistono più di uno: infatti, il bravo e simpatico musicista americano, nato nel Kentucky ...

Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 8, 2013

Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down. A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 ...

Viaggiare con la fantasia: intervista a Stefano D’Anna

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 7, 2013

Stefano D'Anna è uno di quei musicisti che si muovono lontani dalla luce dei riflettori. Lui lo fa con grande classe, dedizione e principio di continuità. È sulle scene jazzistiche da oltre un ventennio (miglior nuovo talento nel 1992 per la rivista Musica Jazz), ha collaborato con una nutrita serie di personaggi di rilievo, è venuto ...

Lauren Kinsella: In Between Every Line

by Ian Patterson
March 5, 2013

It may be that the voice is the most difficult instrument to improvise with, judging by the relatively small number of improvising vocalists out there. Jazz singers who scat are common enough, but only the best are able to breathe life into a style that has become rather formulaic over the past century. Lauren Kinsella (the ...

Interview: Ernie Felice

March 5, 2013

The accordion's post-war popularity in America starts with Ernie Felice in 1946. Though George Shearing had recorded on the instrument in London in '39 followed by Art Van Damme on two sides in '45 and Joe Mooney in mid-'46, it's not until after Ernie's success with the Benny Goodman Sextet in late '46 and early '47 ...

David Fiuczynski: In the In Between

by Daniel Lehner
March 4, 2013

The most recent compositional premiere by guitarist David Fiucyznski has a title that almost manages to sum up his entire sphere of influence. “Flam! Pan-Asian Microjam for J Dilla and Olivier Messiaen" premiered at Berklee College of Music in 2012 and was inspired by a geographically and temporally enormous range of styles. Fiuczynski describes the piece ...

Bob Belden: l'esploratore del Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2013

Intervista a Omar Sosa - Ricordare "Kind of Blue" è un tributo agli antenati

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2013

Omar Sosa è l'espressione più avanzata delle capacità di rinnovamento della musica latina. La sua arte abbraccia una prospettiva quanto mai ampia, che unisce le tradizionali forme caraibiche con le molteplici espressioni della diaspora africana nel Nuovo Mondo. In combinazioni ogni volta sorprendenti troviamo forme colte e popolari, folkloriche e metropolitane, appartenenti a tradizioni lontane o ...