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James Brown: The Singles
If there's one artist who's most responsible for fusing jazz, gospel and R&B—and inventing a new form of high-octane soul in the process—it's James Brown. From 1956 to 1981, Brown's trampoline rhythms, high-pitched squeals and horn-fed dance steps lifted soul to a new level while crystallizing the spirit of the civil rights movement and sexual revolution. ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Trumpeter Nicholas Payton
Trumpeter Nicholas Payton may have begun his journey as part of the traditionalists in the early-1990s Young Lions movement, but he couldn't have emerged any further afield. In fact, Payton's upcoming R&B-infused project Bitches is only just now seeing the light of day, in a completely remixed format, after being rejected last fall by the stalwart ...
A Conversation with Kent Jordan in New Orleans
One growing sector of the burgeoning jazz education field is the number of jazz camps across the globe. A few weeks back we ran our conversation with Jackie Harris, founder & CEO of the Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. Held every July at Loyola University in New Orleans, you can read more about the camp ...
Musiche in opposition. Intervista a Francesco Zago
by AAJ Italy Staff
La gloriosa, ma oggi un po' sfilacciata e consunta bandiera del movimento paneuropeo rock in opposition nato a Londra nell'ormai lontano 1978, ha un suo alfiere in Italia. Si chiama Francesco Zago. Di professione fa il chitarrista e il compositore ed è bandleader di Yugen: un collettivo che rinverdisce i fasti del combat rock cameristico di ...
Percussionist Thomas Stronen Interviewed at All About Jazz!
One of Norway's most prolific drummers, sampling percussionists and composers, Thomas Strønen is the co-founder of Food, along with British saxophonist Iain Ballamy. The group—which, since 2005, has whittled down from an original quartet that also featured Norwegians Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Mats Eilertsen on bass—released its most recent record, Quiet Inlet, in 2010 (its ...
Interview: Anne Phillips
Back in August, I poked fun at vocalist Anne Phillips. Well, not atAnne, personally, but at the cover of her 1959 album for Roulette, Born to Be Blue. Having her pose down at the rat-infested Brooklyn piers made the LP cover a natural target for my weekly “Oddball Album Cover" feature. Well, it turns out Anne ...
Intervista a Sonia Peana, anima del Quartetto Alborada e del progetto “Nidi di note”
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il fatto che Sonia Peana dal 2003 sia moglie di Paolo Fresu (entrambi sardi, si sono conosciuti a Faenza nel 2000 durante la registrazione della Messa Jazz di Alfredo Impullitti) non può essere ignorato ed ha certo un peso determinante nella sua vita privata; non deve però risultare fuorviante nell'affrontare un'intervista che cerca di approfondire le ...
Diane Monroe: Bridging Diverse Musical Worlds
by Victor L. Schermer
Listening to Diane Monroe play jazz violin--whether solo, duo, or in a group--what's immediately evident is how great an improviser she is, fitting seamlessly with the music and the group, breathing and moving with the music. Only then does it become clear that she possesses the precision, complexity, and technique of a classical concert violinist. Indeed, ...
Violinist Diane Monroe Interviewed at All About Jazz!
Listening to Diane Monroe play jazz violin—whether solo, duo, or in a group—what's immediately evident is how great an improviser she is, fitting seamlessly with the music and the group, breathing and moving with the music. Only then does it become clear that she possesses the precision, complexity, and technique of a classical concert violinist. Indeed, ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Legend Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb, the lone survivor of legendary jazz dates featuring Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dinah Washington, Wes Montgomery and others, continues to furiously drum—even while carrying the torch. The 82-year-old's newest album is called Remembering Miles. Cobb will also begin a tour celebrating the music of Coltrane on Thursday, continuing through Nov. 5 with Javon Jackson, ...
