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Ambrose Akinmusire: il cuore emergente

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 17, 2011

Intervista di R. J. DeLuke Le sensazioni che la musica Gospel mi dà sono le stesse che provo ascoltando la musica suonata dai grandi del Jazz. È comunque Gospel, anche se suonato con uno strumento. “Il mio strumento preferito è il violoncello," dice il giovane e spigliato musicista intervistato nel suo appartamento a Manhattan agli inizi ...

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Jeremy Udden: Far From Plain

by R.J. DeLuke
October 17, 2011

Jeremy Udden is one of those outstanding working musicians on the scene in Brooklyn. A saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, he is--like so many musicians of his generation--influenced by a variety of things outside what is known as jazz, and his music reflects that. He's developed a band called Plainville that offers a different sound and feel. ...

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Saxophonist Jeremy Udden Interviewed at All About Jazz!

October 17, 2011

Jeremy Udden is one of those outstanding working musicians on the scene in Brooklyn. A saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, he is—like so many musicians of his generation—influenced by a variety of things outside what is known as jazz, and his music reflects that. He's developed a band called Plainville that offers a different sound and feel. ...

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Bass Trombonist/Jazz Educator Tom Everett Interviewed at All About Jazz!

October 18, 2011

It's no accident that forty years of jazz at Harvard coincides with forty years of Tom Everett at the esteemed university. Everett founded Harvard University's first student jazz band, taught its first jazz history course and welcomed the campus' first visiting jazz artist. He now leads two jazz bands at the prestigious university, continues to teach ...

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Saxophonist Achille Succi Interviewed at All About Jazz!

October 19, 2011

Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Among the many ...

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Jazz Face: Irv Williams, Still Feisty After All These Years

October 15, 2011

What will I be doing if and when I get to 92? Surely not playing the saxophone since I never have... But will I be working as I am today? With enough motivation and energy to sustain my activities at an admirable level? Although every year he hints at retirement, and with every CD release (nearly ...

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Interview: Rhoda Scott

October 14, 2011

Rhoda Scott is easily the finest Hammond B3 organist around today. Name unfamiliar to you? That's probably because Rhoda moved to Paris in 1968 and has resided there ever since. Over the past 43 years, Rhoda has become a jazz celebrity on the European jazz concert and club circuit. Over here, not so much. Nevertheless, organ ...

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The Poetry of Walter Bishop, Jr.

October 14, 2011

Relaxin' With Max, The Invincible Roach By Walter Bishop, Jr. There was a Roach named Maxwell. He was unusual in that he could fly, having been born with wings. He also played the drums, of all things. From his home in South Carolina, he came to the Big City, via Brooklyn. There he got hooked up ...

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Interview: Sol Schlinger (Part 3)

October 13, 2011

Sol Schlinger is a modest big-band legend. At first he was surprised I had tracked him down. Then he didn't quite understand why I or anyone else would care about his career. When it finally dawned on him that he must be worthy given my enthusiasm, he said, “Gosh, if I knew then I was going ...

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Something Else! Interview: Billy Sherwood, Formerly of Yes

October 13, 2011

Billy Sherwood has had a busy year—producing the new solo album by former King Crimson/UK/Asia singer John Wetton, co-leading the terrific third release from Circa and then issuing his own well-conceived solo recording. He is, of course, best known for trying to sew together the frayed scraps of that ever-evolving prog-rock amalgam Yes in the 1990s, ...