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Intervista a Fabrizio Ottaviucci intorno a John Cage
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una parte della ricerca in campo interpretativo del pianista e compositore Fabrizio Ottaviucci è dedicata a John Cage. Alcuni dei pezzi più belli del repertorio per piano di Cage vengono costatemente proposti in esecuzioni live e alcuni sono anche già stati registrati. Tra i suoi CD ricordiamo il bellissimo Dream [Wergo], con Nextime Ensemble, tra cui ...
Intervista a Sabina Meyer intorno a John Cage
by AAJ Italy Staff
In uno speciale su John Cage non poteva mancare un'intervista a Sabina Meyer, vocalist, sperimentatrice, compositrice, trasversale per qualità di voce, progetti realizzati, ambiti nei quali si muove la sua musica. Non a caso il suo lavoro si è spesso incrociato a quello di John Cage di cui ne ha realizzato alcuni pezzi. Questa intervista, specifica ...
Intervista a Giancarlo Cardini intorno a John Cage
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giancarlo Cardini è stato interprete speciale del repertorio pianistico di John Cage. Molti lo hanno potuto conoscere grazie alla pubblicazione del documento sonoro allegato al numero monografico della rivista Sonora. Itinerari oltre il suono nel quale erano stati riprodotti alcuni importanti materiali relativi a “John Cage a Firenze". Nel recente volume di Paolo Carradori, Giancarlo Cardini: ...
Simin Tander: Softly, As In A Morning Dew
by Ian Patterson
For many people around the world, the word jazz evokes a singer in a bar, club, restaurant or hotel, reworking the standards of yore. Vocal jazz has such a high profile, relatively speaking, because radio stations and TV stations largely balk at the idea of instrumental music, and, easy listening-as a lot of vocal jazz tends ...
Latin Jazz icons Michel Camilo and Luciana Souza put new twists on the mellow genre
Camilo's new CD Mano A Mano mixes American jazz with Latin grooves and European classical; Souza does American standards in The Book of Chet Pianist and composer Michel Camilo says we’re in a second golden age in Latin Jazz. The first great era occurred from the 1930s through the 1950s, with “Chano Pozo, Mario Bauza, Juan ...
Dancing On The Wide-eyed Edge With Pianist Leslie Sharp
Q: How would you describe your new album, Dancing on the Wide-Eyed Edge? A: If you forgive my quoting myself, I use these words: warmly re-visited, uniquely re-constructed, and virtuosically refreshed songs from the days of swing and jazz, a delightfully eclectic collection. This was truly what I experienced while envisioning the project and during the ...
Bonnie Bowden and Stevie Wonder
Singer Bonnie Bowden has an interesting background. Today she performs with jazz groups and swing bands on the West Coast. But from 1972 onward into the 1980s, she was a member of Sergio Mendes' “Brasil" groups, which specialized in uplifting, samba-soaked versions of contemporary and bossa nova hits. During this period Bonnie had some interesting studio ...
Marialy Pacheco: A Sunshine State of Mind
by Ian Patterson
It takes courage and self-belief to up sticks and try your luck in another country. There is, after all, no guarantee that things will work out, and some hard times are almost assured. The language barrier can leave you feeling utterly isolated, and until you gain fluency it is not possible to be truly yourself. It's ...
Marcus Belgrave: Preserver of Jazz
by Shannon J. Effinger
If you trace the careers of many of today's jazz artists, you'll discover that they all converge around one man--trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. He gave Karriem Riggins his very first drum set. Ray Parker, Jr. got his first gig thanks to him. He even took a then 15- year-old James Carter to Europe for the first time. ...
