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UYS: Mark Dresser Interview
This interview is part of the book/DVD project “Under your Skin" which includes conversations with Ahmad Jamal, Anthony Braxton, Chuck D—Public Enemy, Yusef Lateef, Lenny White, Melvin Gibbs, Liu Fang, Malika Zarra, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Esperanza Spalding, Lydia Lunch, Lee “Scratch" Perry, DJ KutMasta Kurt, Sepultura, Joe Bowie, ...
Moroccan Jazz Singer Malika Zarra Embraces Her Heritage on "Berber Taxi"
Whether one is improvising, composing or even just playing songs, music is a declaration of self. This is never more apparent than with singer and composer Malika Zarra. Born in Morocco and raised in France, Zarra draws upon her roots to inform her jazz by adding elements of North African chaâbi and well as traditional Moroccan ...
The Art of Jazz Still Thrives with Saxophonist Sonny Rollins
For all of the longtime jazz fans who habitually fret about what has become of the art form and whether it's endangered, Sonny Rollins offers a reassuring and typically philosophical response: “Jazz is a spirit. It is freedom. It is reality put into musical form. It will never leave until this planet leaves," says the revered ...
James Farm Takes Seed as New All-Star Jazz Band
Yes, many will call James Farm an all-star band. Featuring drummer Eric Harland, bassist Matt Penman, pianist Aaron Parks and saxophonist Joshua Redman, the band certainly has some of the leading lights of today's jazz scene. But to hear Harland and Parks speak about the band's origins, James Farm seems something organically grown rather than a ...
Shipp shape: Piano improv master Matthew Shipp has an ear for just about everything
He might be older and wiser, but Matthew Shipp has not mellowed with age. A galvanizing force among the heirs to jazz's avant-garde movement of the 1960s, the pianist has spent the past quarter century building a vast, roiling musical universe. As an invaluable sideman and prolific bandleader, as a sometimes caustic advocate and discerning curator ...
Intervista a Umberto Petrin
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dalla poesia all'impegno civile, passando per Monk ("il primo amore non si scorda mai!" recita un vecchio adagio) e il teatro. Sono alcune delle tappe della carriera di Umberto Petrin, musicista che ha sempre inseguito l'idea di una “babele" artistica. Lo abbiamo intervistato in occasione dell'uscita del suo ultimo disco in completa solitudine, A Dawn Will ...
Jazz Influence @ The Roots of Hip Hop
Back in the early 80s, when hip hop was in its nascent stage, a young man who grew up in Brooklyn—definitely one of the root beds of the form—named Fred Brathwaite, Jr. was making his moves that cutting edge. Originally an aspiring graffitti artist, young Fred immersed himself in those early experiments, basment-rapping with an aspiring ...
From the basement to the Montréal Jazz Festival: Guitarist Carlos Jiménez' self-taught road to success
On his latest album Undercurrents, guitarist Carlos Jiménez exhibits the cool self-confidence and keen precision of an artist at the top of his game, about as far as it gets from the kid who used to practice in his parents' basement. But every musician has to begin somewhere, and for Jiménez those tireless moments underground provided ...
Pensare latino: intervista a Mauro Perigozzo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Mauro Perigozzo è nato in una famiglia di musicisti ed è stata una performance di Mal Waldron in piano solo a portarlo sulla via del jazz. Insieme a Matteo Scarpettini ha da poco dato alla luce l'interessante Through the Looking Glass, e in questa intervista ci racconta il suo cammino, la partecipazione ad altri progetti in ...
Jimmy Haslip: The Honest Endeavor of Making Music
by Ian Patterson
When electric bassist Jimmy Haslip joined pianist/keyboard player Russell Ferrante as a sideman on guitarist Robben Ford's recording sessions for The Inside Story (Elektra Records, 1979), he probably wouldn't have wagered much on his and Ferrante's musical partnership lasting 33 years to date, in one of jazz's most durable and best-loved ensembles, the Yellowjackets. Haslip is ...
