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Violinist Jenny Scheinman Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!
It's often the case that the most interesting music is made by musicians with a broad musical palette and openness to new paths and horizons. Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman certainly qualifies in both regards. Equally at home playing folk tunes or working in essentially modern jazz setups, Scheinman also jumps at the chance to play with classical ...
Jenny Scheinman: Some Serious Mischief
by Ian Patterson
It's often the case that the most interesting music is made by musicians with a broad musical palette and openness to new paths and horizons. Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman certainly qualifies in both regards. Equally at home playing folk tunes or working in essentially modern jazz setups, Scheinman also jumps at the chance to play with classical ...
John Escreet: Musica per l'Oggi
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di R.J. DELUKE Guardare avantiandare avantisono due caratteristiche peculiari del pianista John Escreet, Britannico di nascita e Americano di adozione, essendosi trasferito a New York nel 2008 per frequentare la Manhattan School of Music. Escreet, che aveva 22 anni quando lasciò l'Inghilterra, si cimenta con il Jazz contemporaneo suonando con artisti quali David Binney, Ambrose ...
Jazz Face: Heeeeere's Doc!
My friend Joan says she has discovered the secret to eternal youth: Play the trumpet into your 80s and lead a band of hot talents half your age. That formula probably won't work for most of us but it sure seems like the right recipe for Doc Severinsen, in town this past week leading his Big ...
Marion Evans on Ted McNabb
One of the finest (and rarest) big band recordings of the late 1950s is Ted McNabb & Co. for Columbia's Epic label. Arranged and conducted by Marion Evans, the session was recorded over three days in November 1959 and featured the cream of the New York studio scene. On the date were Burt Collins, Bernie Glow, ...
Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar Interviewed at All About Jazz!
There was a point during Amir ElSaffar's study of Arabic music where he almost didn't come back to jazz. He had gone to Iraq to study maqam, the system of melodic modes in traditional Arabic music, in order to bring some of the concepts into jazz. However, the experience proved to be a deepening one for ...
Amir ElSaffar: At Two Rivers' Confluence
by Daniel Lehner
There was a point during Amir ElSaffar's study of Arabic music where he almost didn't come back to jazz. He had gone to Iraq to study maqam, the system of melodic modes in traditional Arabic music, in order to bring some of the concepts into jazz. However, the experience proved to be a deepening one for ...
Saxophonist Steve Coleman Interviewed at All About Jazz!
Saxophonist Steve Coleman's The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings, 2011) was one of the records of 2011. Thematically and structurally challenging on the one hand, dynamic and funky on the other, the music's contrasts reflect Coleman's view of the world, in all its complexity and simplicity. Coleman's fierce intellect carries simple logic, wrapped in many-layered waves ...
Enrico Rava, narratore formidabile
by AAJ Italy Staff
Enrico è un narratore formidabile". Ha ragione Stefano Bollani nelle note introduttive all'ultimo libro del trombettista, Incontri con musicisti straordinari" (Feltrinelli 2011). Con lui anche un'intervista diventa in un colloquio a tutto campo, dove le riflessioni si legano ai ricordi e alle valutazioni sulla musica e sulla vita. Un'intervista non è mai la trascrizione stenografica di ...
Steve Coleman: Symbols and Language
by Ian Patterson
Saxophonist Steve Coleman's The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings, 2011) was one of the records of 2011. Thematically and structurally challenging on the one hand, dynamic and funky on the other, the music's contrasts reflect Coleman's view of the world, in all its complexity and simplicity. Coleman's fierce intellect carries simple logic, wrapped in many-layered waves ...


