Results for "Interview"

Teofilovic Brothers: Songs Belong to Those Who Sing Them Better

by Nenad Georgievski
February 26, 2013

The Teofilovic brothers (Radiša and Ratko) are two of the most popular performers of traditional songs from Serbia, as well as other parts of the Balkans. In their repertoire they always have wonderful traditional songs that time has forgotten, or that are not always widely known or present in other performers' repertoires. Their wide choices and ...

Conrad Herwig: There's Nothing Else

by Bob Kenselaar
February 25, 2013

Talking about some of his great influences in jazz, Conrad Herwig points out that it's important to look beyond their achievements on their instruments. “Sometimes during a musician's lifetime, people put so much emphasis on their virtuosity as a player that they don't really think about the vehicle of their expression—their compositions." Herwig was speaking of ...

Quando il primo disco? Intervista a Gabriele Evangelista

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 21, 2013

Gabriele Evangelista è giovane, è apprezzato come musicista e ha dunque la vita dalla sua parte. Ma non è semplice dover gestire determinate situazioni, soprattutto quando il peso delle aspettative inizia a farsi sentire. Del resto, questo è il conto da pagare per chi come lui possiede talento, sorretto da una grande voglia di imparare, fare ...

John Daversa: Bursting Out of LA

by R.J. DeLuke
February 18, 2013

Seen in the hallways at California State University in Northridge, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he teaches big band arranging, jazz history and other music courses, John Daversa might be seen with his goatee, and dense, dark and curly hair, parted in the middle, and correctly sense he might be involved in one of the ...

Other Places: Yusef Lateef

February 18, 2013

At 92, Yusef Lateef continues to earn universal admiration not only for his artistry as a saxophonist, flutist, oboist and composer, but also for the warmth of his personality and eagerness to share his musical knowledge, which is wide and deep. Thanks to Rifftides reader Harris Meyer for alertingme—and you— to a recent installment of the ...

William Ellis: Music On A Chink Of Light

by Ian Patterson
February 15, 2013

[ Editor's Note: “Music On A Chink Of Light" was originally published on August 4, 2010. This encore presentation coincides with William Ellis's new column One LP. ]Black and white photographs of jazz legends taken by the likes of Herman Leonard, William P. Gottlieb and William Claxton have gained iconic status over the years. ...

Area - I loro primi quarant'anni

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2013

Una ricerca che continua sempre: intervista ad Ares Tavolazzi

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2013

Parte dal Conservatorio di Ferrara la storia in musica di Ares Tavolazzi. In seguito, dopo aver fatto un po' di gavetta in ambito beat, approda agli Area, inizialmente per rimpiazzare la figura di Patrick Djivas - a suo volta passato nelle fila della Premiata Forneria Marconi -, ma poi per diventare una delle colonne portanti della ...

Area - viaggio nella memoria insieme a Patrizio Fariselli

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2013

Oltre 40 anni di onorata carriera. Il primo album Arbeit Macht Frei risale al 1973, ma gli Area esistevano già da almeno più di un anno. A raccontarci sul filo della memoria e delle emozioni questa straordinaria e lunga avventura è Patrizio Fariselli, il barbuto tastierista dall'aspetto ieratico che appare nella bella foto di copertina di ...

Francesca Han: Right Music, Right Time

by Ian Patterson
February 11, 2013

Korea has never been more fashionable, leading the way in technological advances and dictating hair styles, television viewing, eye shape and pop music trends across Asia and beyond. The mindboggling response to singer PSY's song “Gangnam Style," with over a billion hits on You Tube, epitomizes the phenomena of the so-called “Korean Wave." Fewer people, inevitably, ...