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A Chat with Pink Floyd's Nick Mason

October 7, 2011

By Dennis Cook Pink Floyd's music is WAY beyond mere entertainment or distraction. It's a skeleton key to unlocking things that are hard to put into words, and thus something fans keep close to the breast, cherished for its real world value and depth of understanding of the human condition. To call the band influential sells ...

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Jazz Face: Mary Louise Knutson

October 7, 2011

Ten years ago, Minneapolis-based pianist Mary Louise Knutson released her first recording (Call Me When You Get There), about equal parts original compositions and new arrangements of standards. The reviews were raves, the airplay was off the charts. We wanted more. But we had to wait a decade. In the interim, Mary Louise kept busy, touring ...

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Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 3)

October 6, 2011

Tad Hershorn spent decades working on Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (University of California Press). For his newly published biography, Tad interviewed Granz multiple times before his death. Though Tad had enormous respect for Granz and his accomplishments on behalf of jazz and civil rights, he maintains a steely objectivity in his ...

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Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 2)

October 4, 2011

Norman Granz wasn't a complicated man. He was merely an entrepreneur who loved highly creative people and felt their brilliance deserved wider recognition. Once you understand this about him, much of what comes next falls neatly into place. For years Granz has been considered an enigma because most people like him tended to go into other ...

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Saxophonist Bunky Green Interviewed at All About Jazz!

October 3, 2011

Saxophonist Bunky Green bristles at the idea of playing by the rules. On more than one occasion, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native was on his way to jazz stardom, but each time his principles guided him elsewhere. This is a significant reason why the highly influential musician has mostly remained unsung and out of the spotlight for ...

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Bunky Green: Urgency and Continuity

by Anil Prasad
October 3, 2011

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Omar Sosa - Il Mondo per il Mondo

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 3, 2011

di Simon J. Harper Il pianista e compositore Omar Sosa è nato a Cuba durante il primo decennio di governo di Fidel Castro, ed è cresciuto ascoltando il jazz - insieme ai suoi compagni di scuola - clandestinamente. Dopo qualche tempo le regole sarebbero cambiate, e anche a Cuba la musica americana divenne legittima. Dopo il ...

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Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 1)

October 3, 2011

Norman Granz played perhaps the single biggest role in the spread of small-group jazz in the years following World War II. As a concert promoter and record company founder, Granz had tireless drive, a undiminished passion for the music and musicians, and a buzzsaw personality that came in handy along the way. Yet little is known ...

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Intervista Fontana Mix. Conversazione con Francesco La Licata.

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2011

Il FontanaMIXensemble nasce nel 2002 dalla condivisione, da parte dei musicisti che ne fanno parte, di un progetto in cui interpreti e compositori lavorano in stretta collaborazione alla produzione di opere musicali a carattere anche multimediale. Lo studio e l'interpretazione di opere del secondo Novecento (da Sciarrino a Scelsi, Berio, Donatoni, Grisey, Bussotti, Cage, Crumb, Ligeti, ...

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Something Else! Interview: Blues Legend Duke Robillard

September 29, 2011

Duke Robillard, co-founder of Roomful of Blues and a former member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, has earned high praise from none other than B.B. King—who labeled him “one of the great players." B.B. isn't the only one who's noticed: A Handy award winner for best blues guitarist in both 2000-01, Robillard received a Grammy nod for ...