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Momento di massima lucidità: intervista a Roy Paci
by AAJ Italy Staff
Roy Paci è straripante. Non si ferma mai, preso com'è dai suoi mille progetti, da iniziative di ogni genere e spinto dalla voglia di produrre contenuti musicali, ma non solo, sempre originali e pieni di carica espressiva. La sua nuova invenzione è l'Orchestra del Fuoco, un ensemble che sta riscuotendo diversi consensi tra pubblico e critica ...
Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 2)
Jazz fans tend to be highly partial. We insist that one trumpeter is better than all others or that one drummer is faster, stronger or more rhythmic than everyone else. We take music personally and like to fight for our particular tastes and choices. This king-of-the-hill view also tends to spill over into the kinds of ...
Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 1)
Jazz isn't dying—it's changing. And what's emerging is ruthlessly exciting and eclectic. This nascent jazz form, like many that preceded it, is a collage of styles—mixing acoustic improvisation with hip-hop themes, turntable sampling and black-jazz forms from earlier decades. At the front of this movement is pianist Robert Glasper. As I wrote in the Wall Street ...
Matthew Bourne: Montauk, Billy Moon and the Lost Pianos
by Bruce Lindsay
"I've accepted that I'm not a traditional composer who sits and scores things out, plays them, learns them. I just have a rough sense of something and go out and do it. It often ends up being completely different," says pianist, improviser and composer Matthew Bourne. It's a characteristically honest appraisal, but it fails to do ...
Pianist Armen Donelian Interviewed at All About Jazz!
61 year-old pianist Armen Donelian, a New York City native who now lives in upstate New York but who has traveled the globe as a jazz artist and as Fulbright scholar, has played all kinds of music during his lifetime. He studied classical music intensely and he allows other influences to seep in to his creativity. ...
Miguel Zenón: lo sherpa del Jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Lawrence Peryer Forte della sua carriera ormai decennale, il sassofonista Miguel Zenón si pone come uno dei musicisti più sofisticati e stilisticamente ricercati in circolazione. In poco tempo Zenón si è affermato come compositore, leader, educatore e apostolo del Jazz. Si è esibito e ha inciso, sia come leader sia come membro, con l'innovativo ...
Armen Donelian: Consummate Musician
by R.J. DeLuke
Consistency of excellence is an extraordinary thing in music--particularly improvised music, where taking chances, however satisfying, can be risky. The daredevil on the tightrope might amaze onlookers. But he also might fall.61 year-old pianist Armen Donelian, a New York City native who now lives in upstate New York but who has traveled the globe ...
Pianist Matthew Bourne Interviewed at All About Jazz!
"I've accepted that I'm not a traditional composer who sits and scores things out, plays them, learns them. I just have a rough sense of something and go out and do it. It often ends up being completely different," says pianist, improviser and composer Matthew Bourne. It's a characteristically honest appraisal, but it fails to do ...
1979 Herbie Hancock Interview Unearthed at All About Jazz!
For the second installment of AllAboutJazz.com's new column, Jazz in the Aquarian Age Bob Kenselaar unearths a 1979 interview with pianist Herbie Hancock. At the time of this this interview, Hancock had been making ventures away from straight-ahead jazz for some time, but they were still fresh enough to have some fans up in arms. From ...
A Chat with Mitch Ryder
By Dennis Cook Americans tend to have short musical memories. Our culture is so obsessed with newness and fashion that it's easy for pioneers to be dusted away with the sands of time. It's a pity because understanding who broke the ground one walks on is informative and often revelatory in a really joyful way. Case ...
