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Not Your Classic: Carlos Redman
By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Carlos Redman is tooting his own horn across the city, becoming one of the most noted emerging musicians on the jazz scene. After spending years in the Midwest and southern U.S., the 30-year-old jazz trumpeter is making his mark on the Big Apple. With his band, Chemistry, Redman not only plays jazz, ...
Interview: Helen Shapiro
Helen Shapiro and Amy Winehouse had a few things in common. In my interview with Helen in today's Wall Street Journal (go here), we touched on what life was like for her at age 14 in 1961, when she had two No. 1 hits and a No. 3 hit on the British pop charts. In 1962, ...
Georgie Auld in the Late '40s
Georgie Auld should be better known today, but he isn't. In his prime, he was a furiously swinging tenor saxophonist and leader of some pretty hip bop bands of the '40s. Today, the late reedman is probably best known for appearing in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) as bandleader Frankie Harte, working as a ...
Ryan Truesdell: The Gil Evans Project
by Victor L. Schermer
Imagine the commotion when previously unknown manuscripts of Beethoven or Bach were discovered. In the jazz world, the equivalent of such an event might occur with regard to the music of innovators like Duke Ellington or Gil Evans. Indeed, that is exactly what composer-arranger-conductor-producer Ryan Truesdell has uncovered with Evans' music. He researched and found a ...
Avishai Cohen
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di R.J. DeLuke Avishai Cohen è un trombettista dotato di talento e di maestria, che lavorando sodo si sta costruendo rapidamente una solida carriera. Sia le sue scelte sia le band con cui suona sono assolutamente convincenti. All'inizio di quest'anno è stato in tour con il SFJAZZ Collective, un gruppo che raccoglie alcuni dei migliori ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Supertramp
Supertramp was many things over its too-brief period of hitmaking—art-rockish proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers, memory-defining radio monoliths. There was much to love as they moved, over the course of the early-1970s to the early-1980s, from the esoteric to the very top of the charts—something perhaps hastened by the core group's relocation to the shiny sunscape ...
Daniel Bennett on Creating a Truly Unique Musical Statement and More
Generously lauded in publications such as The Village Voice, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, and the Boston Globe, it's obvious that Daniel Bennett is the toast of his former town (he is now based in New York City). With a list of teachers that includes Jerry Bergonzi and George Garzone, it's easy to see why ...
Topspin's Ian Rogers Launches "This Week in Music" Interview Series
Jason Calicanis' This Week In Startups is so popular with the tech tribe that it's spawned its own online network and Topspin CEO Ian Rogers is hosting its newest offshoot, This Week In Music. “It's a pivotal time in the music business and my intention is to explore that with some of the best minds in the ...
Something Else! Interview: Steve Smith, of Journey and Vital Information
Drummer Steve Smith is in the midst of a flurry of activity in advance of the 30th anniversary of his jazz group Vital Information. The first VI album appeared in 1983, even as his tenure with the melodic rock band Journey reached its chart-topping zenith. Smith eventually left Journey to pursue jazz, his first true love, ...
