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How Marilyn Monroe changed Ella Fitzgerald's life
If asked “Who played an important role in the musical career of Ella Fitzgerald?" you might respond with names like Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, and Dizzy Gillespie. The name Marilyn Monroe, however, might not come to mind. While touring in the '50s under the management of Norman Granz, Ella, like many African-American musicians at ...
La piccola sfida: intervista ad Alessandro Gwis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trovare uno spazio nell'agenda di Alessandro Gwis per effettuare l'intervista non è stato facile. Il pianista è impegnato in diversi progetti, tra i quali un prossimo disco in solo, il primo di una carriera che lo ha visto protagonista di diverse stagioni con gli Aires Tango di Javier Girotto, e che ora si sta delineando in ...
1979 Stan Getz Interview Unearthed at All About Jazz!
Bob Kenselaar's Jazz in the Aquarian Age column continues at AAJ with an unearthed 1979 interview with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz. “The music that Stan Getz made over the years was consistently moving and powerful," says Kenselaar, in his introduction to this interview, originally published in The Aquarian Weekly. “But he was probably putting me on ...
Maxine Gordon Reminisces About Dexter Gordon and More at All About Jazz!
More than just the wife, manager and posthumous advocate for the late tenor giant Dexter Gordon, Maxine Gordon is a scholar, researcher, and archivist who has done pioneering research on jazz in Harlem in the 1930s and the history of jazz in the Bronx, NY. A lifelong jazz fan who is currently working on a new ...
Maxine Gordon: The Legacy of Dexter Gordon
by Victor L. Schermer
Legendary tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was a focal point of the bebop and hard bop revolutions. Later in his career, he achieved the status of an American icon with his lead role in Bernard Tavernier's 1986 film, Round Midnight, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination. His “homecoming" in New York City, after living in Europe ...
Nuovi percorsi: intervista a Kekko Fornarelli
by AAJ Italy Staff
Room of Mirrors ha rappresentato per Kekko Fornarelli l'inizio di un nuovo filone espressivo, dopo due album (Circular Thought e A French Man in New York) che ne avevano messo in mostra le sue doti tecniche e le qualità formali. Con il musicista pugliese - che si è segnalato negli ultimi anni come uno dei pianisti ...
Sergio Cammariere: solo nome e cognome
by AAJ Italy Staff
È appena uscito il nuovo album di Sergio Cammariere, con un titolo quanto mai asciutto: il suo nome, il suo cognome, e stop (clicca qui per leggere la recensione). L'artista calabrese l'ha presentato alla stampa l'8 marzo al Conservatorio di Milano, in particolare attraverso uno showcase che ha rappresentato congiuntamente anche un'anteprima del tour che parte ...
Interview: Larry Greene (Part 2)
Back in the late 1940s, the number of radio stations in the U.S. multiplied rapidly thanks to the F.C.C.'s willingness to hand out licenses. Many of these stations filled airtime with records rather than live musicians. As a result, a station's success was highly dependent on the personalities and tastes of their disc jockeys. To promote ...
Jody Watley Interview: Live in San Francisco, March 15-17
Live music fans in San Francisco have a rare opportunity to see a pop icon this week when Jody Watley arrives on the intimate stage of the Rrazz Room in Hotel Nikko. She doesn't mind at all that some people don't realize Watley has been a chameleon in the world of music—gathering hit records since the ...
Skerik continues his collaborative adventures
"I very much believe in a collaborative environment, and trying to get a real band where everyone has an equal say in writing the music, arranging the music and shaping the music. That's always been a real priority for me." —Skerik I had the opportunity to speak to saxophonist Skerik by phone this afternoon, on the ...
