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Adam Cruz: Making Some Room
by R.J. DeLuke
Playing drums with some of the finest musicians around, touring the globe with them, and teaching music can be a lot on the plate of a person fortunate enough--and talented enough--to find themselves in that situation. In fact, that's a solid career.But for Adam Cruz--a much sought-after drummer on the New York City scene ...
Intervista a Daniele Di Bonaventura
by AAJ Italy Staff
Daniele Di Bonaventura è, in Italia e all'estero, un maestro riconosciuto del bandoneon, strumento preferito al pianoforte, “per colpa" di un concerto tenuto a Ravenna nel 1986 dal leggendario Astor Piazzolla. Ma se le fasi iniziali di questo amore a prima vista si sono sviluppate nell'ambito canonico e storicamente tracciato del tango, il percorso del musicista ...
Hal Blaine on Karen Carpenter
Maybe it's because I came of age in the early '70s. Or because my parents had a “burnt orange" car. Or that I had an apple-green Schwinn Stingray. Or that our home was painted redwood. Whatever the reason, the Carpenters always take me back to a time when everything was changing, and not always for the ...
Eraldo Bernocchi, alchimista di musiche alternative
by AAJ Italy Staff
Eraldo Bernocchi, classe 1963, è quanto di più lontano esiste dal mainstream e dalla cosiddetta musica commerciale. Tutta la sua carriera di musicista e compositore - iniziata nel 1985 come chitarrista dei Sigillum S, storica band di industrial, noise ed elettronica - è nel segno della sperimentazione estrema. Muovendosi senza soluzione di continuità tra sintetizzatori, chitarre, ...
Interview: Van Alexander (Part 2)
As noted yesterday, Van Alexander, 97, arranged Ella Fitzgerald's A-Tisket A-Tasket, recorded by Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's orchestra on May 2, 1938. Though the song may seem a bit of a novelty number now, the single was a runaway hit in late June 1938. By the then, the country was growing increasingly worried: Germany had invaded ...
Something Else! Interview: Allen Toussaint, Hall of Fame Singer-Songwriter and Producer
Allen Toussaint, fonky-fonky pianist, writer and producer of untold hit songs, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and first-chair favorite son, makes his annual appearance this week at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – a tradition, he says, “which I dearly, dearly love.” Then, he plans to resume a completely revitalized solo recording ...
Greece-based Saxophonist Nikos Koulouris Links Creative Development To Personal Growth
To saxophonist Nikos Koulouris, his creative development is embedded with his personal growth; they reached maturity together. “My evolution as an artist is closely connected to my evolution as a human being. Realizing through the years who I really was and who I wanted to become helped me express myself musically,” Koulouris explained. “Accepting myself, my ...
Interview: Van Alexander (Part 1)
Today is Van Alexander's birthday (Happy Birthday Van!). He's 97 years old. Van is probably best known for arranging Ella Fitzgerald's career-launching hit A-Tisket, A-Tasket, which she recorded with Chick Webb's band in 1938—on this very day, in fact, 74 years ago. Van wrote the words, including her interchange with the band, and Ella tweaked them ...
Sacha Distel: Guitarist-Singer
French and Belgian jazz musicians from the 1950s aren't given nearly as much credit in the U.S. as they deserve. The same is true for British jazz musicians. Ask most Americans to name their favorite European jazz artists from the period and they'll likely run dry after a handful—usually Toots Thielemans, Tubby Hayes, Bobby Jaspar, Martial ...
Joe McPhee: Artistic Sacrifice from a Musical Prophet
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
He could have easily chosen a different path: a more successful one or, perhaps we should say, a more commercial one. But that has never been the style or the character of multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee. His saint-like humility reflects a gentle and wise creative spirit; his music and poetry are a mirror into the human condition. ...
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