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Li Gao Yang: Locks, Stock and Smoking Barrel

by Ian Patterson
December 6, 2012

With dreadlocks tumbling over his shoulders, Li Gao Yang already cuts a striking figure. When he's on stage blowing his tenor saxophone and leading his quartet with quiet assurance, the impact is all the greater. Chinese jazz stars are few and far between, at home or abroad, but already this unassuming musician from Beijing has appeared ...

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Sulle tracce di Michel: intervista a Tommaso Starace

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 6, 2012

Il saxofonista italo-australiano Tommaso Starace è tra i giovani musicisti più in vista nell'ambito mainstream degli ultimi tempi. La sua attività si divide tra due progetti che evidenziano il suo amore per l'Italia e per l'Inghilterra, paese in cui vive attualmente. Di recente è stato premiato al Barga Jazz Contest 2012 ed ha in agenda una ...

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Jacqui Sutton: At the Edge of the Frontier

by C. Michael Bailey
December 3, 2012

Vocalist/bandleader Jacqui Sutton has a vision that was fully realized by the time she started recording. Her vision had a long incubation period, spent in a variety of musical wood sheds all leading to her debut, Billie and Dolly (Toy Blue Typewriter, 2010). And this was only the beginning.All About Jazz: In your press ...

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Lavori in corso: intervista a Roberto Ottaviano

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 3, 2012

Roberto Ottaviano lavora lontano dalla luce dei riflettori. Insegna, si dedica a progetti interessanti, organizza festival e trova anche il tempo per andare a suonare a New York per una serata tributo a Steve Lacy. Ama definirsi freelance, un po' per sfuggire alla consuetudine della routine discografica “registrazione-album-tour promozionale," un po' perché questo gli consente di ...

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Interview: James "Jimmy G" Gutzman Of High Brow And The Shades

December 3, 2012

Q: When and how did High Brow and the Shades form? A: High Brow started the way a lot of bands start — a couple of guys from one band and a couple from another. That was in 1998. The newly-formed band was fortunate in that we had four strong vocalists. We could all sing lead ...

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Libera espressionista: intervista a Rossella Cangini

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 29, 2012

Rossella Cangini ha sviluppato, e continua a rifinire, un'estetica personale del canto. Attraverso un confronto continuo con altre forme d'arte e generi - dal tecnoteatro al jazz, alla libera improvvisazione -, ha tessuto una tela di collaborazioni che rivela una totale assenza di blocchi mentali. I recenti lavori in duo con Claudio Lodati e Fabrizio Elvetico ...

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For Americana Recording Artist, Julie Christensen, Cathartic Journey Prompts Album -- Weeds Like Us -- While New Leonard Cohen Biography Marks Her Role In Legendary Career

November 29, 2012

Julie Christensen'S “WEEDS LIKE US” CD Candidly Reveals a Cathartic Journey of Loss and Survival Bringing “Great Plains Soul” to Acclaimed Career of Americana Singer-Songwriter While Release of New Leonard Cohen Biography Documents Christensen's Pivotal, Musical Role in Legendary Career Los Angeles, CA: It is a busy season for Julie Christensen, whose critically-acclaimed recordings, and longtime ...

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Lou Cohen: Opening the Door

by Gordon Marshall
November 28, 2012

In his cushy, classy, elegant two-story home just outside of Central Square in Cambridge, MA, Lou Cohen introduces his Symphony 5: from a laptop, jammed together fragments of elegant new music unfold, spaced out so that breath can enter in the interstices... Then the sound of roiling, rolling violins getting impacted: all is mellow and peaceful ...

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Trevor Rabin: All Colors Considered

by Ian Patterson
November 26, 2012

It wouldn't be the norm, that's for sure, but 23 years between solo albums is just one unusual facet of guitarist/composer Trevor Rabin's career to date. Whether taking a stance against apartheid in the early '70s in his native South Africa or turning down the opportunity to play in super group Asia for artistic reasons, Rabin ...

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John Seman: The Story of Monktail

by Jack Gold-Molina
November 21, 2012

The director and cofounder of Monktail Creative Music Concern with drummer Mark Ostrowski, bassist/composer John Seman has spent much of his childhood and his entire adult life defining this band and his musical direction. A highly educated player with the kind of street sense that can only be gained through constant performing, recording and touring, he ...