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Interview: Gerald Wilson
In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra and a fabulous new box set from Mosaic Records: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions, featuring material recorded between 1934 and 1945. What makes this box special is that you get to hear swing's ascension before Benny Goodman gave it a mass-market ...
Ariel Hyatt Interviews Panos Panay of Sonicbids
This interview that Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR did with Sonicbids founder Panos Panay isn't new, but so much of what these two veterans of independent music spoke about rang true that we're republishing it. A while back I started writing a book about entrepreneurial leaders in the music business for Music Industry and Music Business ...
John De Leo, una voce fuori dal coro
by AAJ Italy Staff
Definirlo solo un cantante sarebbe fargli un grandissimo torto. John De Leo, classe 1970, è infatti prima di tutto un compositore-performer che vanta sin dai tempi in cui era la voce-strumento dei Quintorigo collaborazioni di alto rango, soprattutto nel mondo del jazz (Rava, Fresu, Rea, Salis ecc.). Dal 2005, lasciati i Quintorigo, l'estroso ravennate, capace di ...
Hiromi: The Voice Inside
by Ian Patterson
What is a voice? How much of people's voices are really their own? After all, language acquisition is derived from successful imitation. Artists of all stripes may labor for years to find their true voice and express themselves as they desire. Even the greatest artists go through a process—often painful—of imitation, refinement and, finally, emergence. The ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 2)
Any duo of professional musicians can collaborate and produce a high quality product, but it takes a special understanding between two artists to deliver truly memorable music. Every night musicians are thrown together and they make music based upon shared knowledge and professional behavior; it might sound good, but it rarely reaches a level of shared ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 3)
Crossover is an interesting word that provokes a number of different reactions in people. On the one hand, it signifies the ultimate goal of any musician—to seamlessly cross between styles and connect with a multitude of artists. Individuals with the unique insight to see the connection points between musical boundaries find themselves with more opportunities and ...
Interview: Mary Vonnie
Back in May, I posted about a 15-minute documentary made by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker in 1964 called Audition at RCA. It featured producer George Avakian accompanying Dave Lambert and his new group of vocalese singers while they auditioned new material for RCA that Lambert had written and hoped to record. For whatever reason, RCA suits passed. ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 1)
Cultural connections are the key elements that define a musician's artistic output, creating an individual sound through the intersection of these pieces. The meeting between an individual's cultural relationships doesn't happen instantly though; the various musical strains need to float through an individual's life for a while, sinking into the subconscious. Once several different cultural elements ...
The Rise of Seun Kuti
By Dennis Cook Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 begin their U.S. tour today, July 13, in Solano Beach, CA. Find the full itinerary here. In many ways it does not that Seun Kuti is the youngest son of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti. Such is Seun's naked passion, political uprightness, musical swing and humanitarian spirit that he'd ...
