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Interview: Benny Golson
I hope when the Kennedy Center starts to think about this year's honoreers, they will give serious consideration to composer-saxophonist Benny Golson. As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (go here if you're a subscriber), Benny is the stylistic heir to Billy Strayhorn and Tadd Dameron. He is to jazz what Carole King and Harry ...
In the Shadow of No Towers: Art Spiegelman, Marco Cappelli e l'11 settembre
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'impatto dell'11 settembre nell'arte andrebbe studiato anche per quanto riguarda la musica. Una curiosa voce di wikipedia (List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks) elenca per generi, opere, musiche, libri ispirati o semplicemente riguardanti il tragico evento. Il DVD In the Shadow of No Towers di Marco Cappelli si inquadra nel novero di questa ...
Saxphone Colossus Sonny Rollins Interviewed at All About Jazz!
Making two trips to the White House within a calendar year, to receive two of the nation's most prestigious awards bestowed upon artists, is more than fairly momentous. Those are significant feathers in the ol' cap—surely reasons to crow or, at the very least, feel pretty satisfied about oneself. So it had to be a hell ...
Sonny Rollins: Mark of Greatness
by R.J. DeLuke
Making two trips to the White House within a calendar year, to receive two of the nation's most prestigious awards bestowed upon artists, is more than fairly momentous. Those are significant feathers in the ol' cap--surely reasons to crow or, at the very least, feel pretty satisfied about oneself.So it had to be a ...
Jazz Face: Billy Peterson's Rhapsody
Outside of the Twin Cities, Billy Peterson is probably best known for his two+ decades of work with the Steve Miller Band. But here at home, and particularly over the past six months, Billy literally has served as the house bassist at the Artists Quarter, appearing with a wide range of jazz artists from vocalists to ...
Guitarist Kenny Burrell Interviewed at All About Jazz!
Kenny Burrell has appeared on so many essential jazz recordings that jazz history and his story seem irretrievably intertwined. Billie Holiday's valedictory rumination Lady Sings the Blues (Verve, 1956)? Jimmy Smith's epochal funk throwdown Back at the Chicken Shack (Blue Note, 1960)? Tony Bennett's Carnegie Hall debut? Kenny Burrell played guitar for them all. Even Jimi ...
Un CD in una bottiglia. A dialogo con Giovanni Maier
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giovanni Maier è musicista che non ha bisogno di presentazioni: tra i maggiori contrabbassisti del nostro paese, membro della Italian Instabile Orchestra, collaboratore dei più importanti musicisti italiani, Maier è improvvisatore attivo in molteplici ambiti del jazz. A proprio nome o come contitolare, Maier pubblica per numerose etichette italiane - ad esempio per Long Song nel ...
Kenny Burrell: Every Note Swings
by Chris M. Slawecki
Kenny Burrell has appeared on so many essential jazz recordings that jazz history and his story seem irretrievably intertwined. Billie Holiday's valedictory rumination Lady Sings the Blues (Verve, 1956)? Jimmy Smith's epochal funk throwdown Back at the Chicken Shack (Blue Note, 1960)? Tony Bennett's Carnegie Hall debut? Kenny Burrell played guitar for them all. Even Jimi ...
Interview: Roberta Flack
You haven't lived until you hear Roberta Flack sing Feel Like Makin' Love over the phone. Her folk-soul voice is still so warm and rich. In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about Roberta's new Beatles album, Let It Be Roberta. This CD isn't your typical pop-tribute album. Instead, It's a bold, revisionist interpretation ...
Supergruppi e avant jazz tra Roma e New York. La "nuova vita" dI Lorenzo Feliciati
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lorenzo Feliciati, bassista elettrico e compositore, è uno che oggi, dopo una lunga gavetta spesa tra jazz club romani, docenze, clinics, dischi e sessioni di studio con nomi altisonanti del pop tricolore, può dirsi finalmente arrivato. È lui, infatti, l'anima dei Naked Truth, gruppo di calibro internazionale che incrocia senza soluzione di continuità i generi più ...
