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Interview: Herb Snitzer (PT. 1)

March 12, 2012

What makes a jazz photographer tick? For years I have admired Herb Snitzer's unorthodox images of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lester Young and many others. Herb's photos always have this “how did he take that?" quality, leaving you both baffled by their execution and grateful for his daring, since they ...

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Drummer/Percussionist Robert Mehmet Sinan Ikiz Interviewed at All About Jazz!

March 13, 2012

As an integral member of acclaimed outfits Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Magnus Lindgren Batacuda Jazz and Dan Reed Band, 32-year-old drummer and percussionist Robert Mehmet Sinan Ikiz has already toured the world several times over. The wealth of places, people and musical styles he has encountered on his travels has helped shape the diverse sound of ...

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Singer Al Jarreau Interviewed at All About Jazz!

March 12, 2012

In a career now in its fifth decade, singer Al Jarreau's 30 albums as a leader—garnering an almost unprecedented eleven separate Grammy Award nominations and seven wins—have defined him as one of the most popular singers of the past 40 years. Endless positivism in times of trouble, Jarreau's soulful delivery and buoyant stage presence have also ...

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Celebrating the Anniversary of Thomas Chapin's Birthday - 55th Year

March 10, 2012

Today is a Time to Remember a great friend and player, Thomas Chapin who was born on March 9, 1957. He would have been 55 years old. Happy Birthday, Thomas from all of us who knew you and love you—and miss you! Just up on the thomaschapin.com website is an important, new article: “Thomas Chapin and ...

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Brian Patneaude Adds to Quality Discog with "All Around Us"

March 10, 2012

Compositions, as well as the performance, shine again for saxophonist The Capital District region of New York state is pretty rich in musical talent and has a strong jazz scene, even if it's one that suffers the same trials and tribulations as the national scene. One of it's attributes is saxophonist/composer Brian Patneaude, a fine player ...

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Momento di massima lucidità: intervista a Roy Paci

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 8, 2012

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 ...

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Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 2)

March 8, 2012

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 ...

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Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 1)

March 7, 2012

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 ...

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Matthew Bourne: Montauk, Billy Moon and the Lost Pianos

by Bruce Lindsay
March 6, 2012

"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 ...

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Pianist Armen Donelian Interviewed at All About Jazz!

March 5, 2012

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. ...