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Rosario Bonaccorso, il viaggiatore
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per Rosario Bonaccorso In cammino non è solo il titolo dell'album che lo vede leader del Travel Notes Quartet, è una sorta di condizione di vita, di concezione filosofica applicato alla propria musica, e viceversa. Lo abbiamo contattato per indagare un pensiero illuminato da una solida consapevolezza, scaturita da una altrettanto granitica carriera svolta suonando il ...
Interview: Burt Bacharach (Part 1)
What lingers most after you have spent quality time with songwriter Burt Bacharach is the sound of his voice. In my Wall Street Journal profile last week, I describe it as shearling-soft. Burt's voice still has traces of Queens, N.Y., but it's plenty soothing and assuring. And the way he releases words in a sentence is ...
The String Cheese Incident: Back on the Road Again
By Dennis Cook To say there's been a pent-up desire for The String Cheese Incident to return to active duty would be a fairly gross understatement. For the SCI faithful, nothing else fills the hole this singular Colorado institution fits. A great American band in the broad, positive sense, String Cheese throws together elements no other ...
Youth and Grace
The past few days, Rifftides has been unavoidably concerned with deaths and with musicians aged 80 or older. Am I the only one ready for an infusion of youth? Grace Kelly, born in 1992, may not be an elected representative of the talented teenagers in jazz, but she gets the nod here because for several years ...
Interview: Kat Anderson
The week of December 11 will mark a special day in Motown history. Fifty years ago, the two-year-old label had its first No. 1 Billboard pop hit. Earlier in 1961, Smokey Robinson had the label's first No. 1 hit on the R&B chart. But a No. 1 pop hit was a big deal, showing that Motown ...
Noah Haidu: Carving Out His Place
by R.J. DeLuke
New York-based pianist Noah Haidu came to jazz through the blues, listening to the searing, soulful guitar moans of Buddy Guy and Albert King. But his training, at the age of six, had its advent in classical music. He also likes to experiment with electronics. All these things go into the musical blender of ...
Intervista a Mike Rivard - Il capo elfo
by AAJ Italy Staff
I Club D'Elf di Mike Rivard sono uno dei segreti meglio protetti della scena musicale americana. Un gruppo dalla formazione sempre variabile, che sa improvvisare in maniera eccellente, attorno a trame ipnotiche che si cibano di groove, dub, psichedelia, esotismi vissuti nel giusto modo, cioè in profondità e in coerenza con le culture del mondo. In ...
Interview: Dick Hafer (Part 3)
After tenor saxophonist Dick Hafer left Woody Herman's band in 1955, he spent eight years recording top-shelf albums as a sideman on other musicians' dates. From 1964 on, Dick played in the orchestras of Broadway musicals and television shows. What's interesting about his 1956-63 period is that all of the albums all terrific. Not a dud among ...
The Granz Memory
Tadd Hershorn's biography of Norman Granz (see below) is full of instances of the mentalacuity and toughness that helped see the promoter and record executive through countless challenging situations as he presented jazz and fought discrimination. He had a memory that was legendary among the musicians he worked with. Here is a story not in Hershorn's ...
Interview: Dick Hafer (Part 2)
When you speak with tenor saxophonist Dick Hafer, you notice that his voice is as cool and easy-going as his horn. It's a gentle voice, a voice that has a mellifluous sound that makes you want to keep him talking just to hear it. Because his voice putsyou at ease. Like many tenor saxophonists who came ...
