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Observations from Holland: Ntjam Rosie, Tineke Postma
The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands is said to be the biggest indoor fest in the world. I have no argument. It's a tremendous event with quality music from start to finish. Like so many jazz festivals, you'll find rock and pop and soul music as well. Names like Price and Snoop Dogg and ...
Jazz Saxophone Firebrand Jay Collins Takes a Leap to the Funky Side
Who says that all sax players with world-class jazz chops must restrict themselves to the Blue Notes and Village Vanguards of the world? Not Jay Collins. A product of Portland, Oregon's surprisingly vibrant jazz scene in the late 80's and early 90's, Jay's footing in the jazz world is more than solid. It's not just any ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Jose Rizo (Part 2)
Some people are simply meant to be involved in their passion—they are pulled with a magnetic force towards their final goal. These type of people don't see challenges as roadblocks to their dreams; they simply look past them and find an alternate route towards their destination. Life may consistently attempt to turn them in a different ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Jose Rizo (Part 1)
There's nothing stronger in the human soul than a message that you need to share with the world. Most people aren't born with this type of drive, and some people never capture it during their lifetime. Still, there are insightful individuals discover issues in their life that drive them to educate, inform, and speak on topics ...
Rising Stars at Bake's - The Yesberger Band
The Yesberger Band at Bake's Place Friday, July 29. 7:45pm Bake's Place continues its “Rising Stars" series this weekend with a featured performance from “The Yesberger Band." Pianist Devon Yesberger is the prodigy of the Edmonds-Woodway High School jazz program and is presently enrolled in the Berklee School of Music. While performing with Edmonds-Woodway, ...
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 ...
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