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Jazz Face: Sue Orfield
She was once known as “Seattle's Best Horn," but tenor saxophonist Sue Orfield, now based in Eau Claire, WI, should have recognition far beyond either locale. Playing this past weekend at the Artists Quarter with an organ trio already known for its playful, zesty firepower—the Tuesday Night Band—Orfield turned up the heat beyond boil. The TNB+1 ...
Interview: Dick Hafer (Part 1)
Starting in the late 1940s, Dick Hafer (pronounced HAY-fer)was one of the finest big-band tenor saxophonists and soloists. Dick's sound rested somewhere between Lester Young's smooth linear delivery and Wardell Gray's eely bop attack. [Pictured: Dick Hafer in Woody Herman's 1952 band] As a result, Dick wound up in the sax sections of some of the finest ...
Bunky Green: avanti tutta, nella continuità
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Anil Prasad Al sassofonista Bunky Green l'idea di suonare secondo le regole non va proprio a genio. In più di una occasione il musicista, originario di Milwaukee, è stato a un passo dall'entrare nel gotha dei jazzisti famosi, ma ogni volta i suoi principi lo hanno portato altrove. Ecco perché pur così influente è ...
Ola Onabule Releases "Seven Shades Darker"
Soul and Jazz, Singer and songwriter, Ola Onabule returns to British Columbia this November for his third visit to Canada after his magnificent debut in 2009 on the main stage of the Montreal Jazz Festival on their 30th Anniversary. Ola Onabule will perform material from his 7th studio album, Seven Shades Darker, which will be released ...
Kenny Burrell, Octogenarian
Kenny Burrell has joined the parade of major jazz artists entering octogenarianism and performing at a high level. The guitarist is of a generation of Detroit musicians including Tommy Flanagan, Pepper Adams, Elvin Jones, Roland Hanna and Louis Hayes that made a significant impact on jazz. Burrell's 80th birthday was a week ago. He is preparing ...
Tunecore CEO Jeff Price on New Songwriter Services [interview]
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Last week digital music distributor TuneCore launched the Songwriter Publishing Administration Service to help songrwiters collect payments from global performing rights organizations (PROs) as well as directly from digital music providers. It's a major initiative for the company and CEO Jeff Price who has made often described TuneCore's mission as delivering “more money, more quickly, with ...
Jazz Face: Craig Taborn, Jazz's "Avenging Angel"
High on my list for jazz CD of the year is Craig Taborn's long-awaited solo set of improvisations, Avenging Angel. Released midyear on ECM, the recording has drawn praise far and wide, but perhaps nothing father or wider than its inclusion in the recent listing of “cultural artifacts" of the new millennium posted by online magazine ...
A Conversation with Rich Robinson
By Dennis Cook [Rich Robinson is currently on a North American tour. He plays tonight, November 8th in Toronto, and tomorrow, November 9th, in Seattle, WA. Find full tour dates here.] Rich Robinson has a lot to say as a musician. Even after 20-plus years co-helming The Black Crowes, Robinson keeps offering up fresh facets. To ...
Interview: Jordi Pujol
Don't recognize the name? Jordi Pujol is the owner of Spain's Fresh Sound label. Since the 1990s, Fresh Sound has specialized in releasing American jazz albums from the 1950s that U.S. labels have all but ignored, overlooked or forgotten. In this regard, Fresh Sound has performed a heroic task, rescuing jazz's greatest decade from the dumb ...
Intervista ad Arrigo Cappelletti
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arrigo Cappelletti è pianista, compositore, scrittore e saggista dalla curiosità innata, alimentata da una visione artistica aperta che supera i dualismi e riesce a conciliare mondi apparentemente distanti tra loro. Primo in Italia a formare un gruppo di tango jazz si è ripetuto qualche anno dopo con il fado portoghese. Vanta un rapporto privilegiato con le ...
