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Matthias Winckelmann: Happy Birthday ENJA!

by Bob Hatteau
November 1, 2011

ECM, ACT, Winter & Winter, FMP, MPS, ENJA... Germany sounds like a generous land for creative jazz record labels. ENJA Records, the Münich-based jazz label, was founded in 1971 by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber. For the last forty years ENJA has built an impressive catalog, with more than seven hundred releases that ...

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ENJA Records' Matthias Winckelmann Interviewed at All About Jazz!

November 1, 2011

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Interview: Chick Corea (Part 1)

November 1, 2011

Pianist Chick Corea has had about 20 careers. Which is why New York's Blue Note is turning over the club to Chick and his music for nearly the entire month of November. The unprecedented move not only comes in celebration of Chick's 70th birthday but also his 50 years of playing jazz and influencing the music's ...

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Percussionist Brian Adler Interviewed at All About Jazz!

October 31, 2011

Brian Adler is truly both a drummer and a percussionist—in his world, the drum set coexists peacefully with a dizzying array of ethnic percussion instruments as equal partners in a myriad of musical possibilities. His work with vocalist Sunny Kim in the Prana Trio—which also includes a rotating cast of guest artists such as Frank Carlberg, ...

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Brian Adler: A World of Percussion

by Dave Wayne
October 31, 2011

Brian Adler is truly both a drummer and a percussionist--in his world, the drum set coexists peacefully with a dizzying array of ethnic percussion instruments as equal partners in a myriad of musical possibilities. His work with vocalist Sunny Kim in the Prana Trio--which also includes a rotating cast of guest artists such as Frank Carlberg, ...

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James Brown: The Singles

October 31, 2011

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. ...

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Something Else! Interview: Jazz Trumpeter Nicholas Payton

October 29, 2011

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 ...

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A Conversation with Kent Jordan in New Orleans

October 28, 2011

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 ...

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Musiche in opposition. Intervista a Francesco Zago

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 27, 2011

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 ...

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Percussionist Thomas Stronen Interviewed at All About Jazz!

October 25, 2011

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 ...