Results for "Interview"

Something Else! Featured Artist: Supertramp

July 24, 2011

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

July 22, 2011

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

July 21, 2011

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

July 21, 2011

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, ...

UYS: Aki Takase interview

July 21, 2011

Interview: Gerald Wilson

July 20, 2011

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

July 19, 2011

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
July 18, 2011

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
July 18, 2011

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)

July 18, 2011

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 ...