Results for "Interview"

Something Else! Interview: Lenny White, of Return to Forever

June 23, 2011

Fusion jazz drummer Lenny White is prepping for a reunion with the newly expanded Return to Forever, which will make 32 stops in the U.S. beginning in Pittsburgh on Aug. 7. The newest members are former Mahavishnu Orchestra violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and guitarist Frank Gambale. But White's life away from a band he's played with off ...

Fabled Music Man Bob Mintzer Shares Decades Worth of Wisdom

June 22, 2011

Bob Mintzer is a 20-year member of the Grammy Award winning Yellowjackets, has recorded some 30 solo projects including his own Grammy winning big band, holds the Buzz McCoy endowed chair position on the faculty University of Southern California, does workshops all over the world, writes books on jazz, writes for orchestra, concert band, and big ...

Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions

by Gordon Marshall
June 21, 2011

Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...

Ricky Riccardi on Louis Armstrong

June 21, 2011

Ricky Riccardi's much anticipated What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years (Pantheon) is out today. Ricky is an Armstrong scholar and archivist for the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, N.Y. He also writes the blog The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong. [Pictured: Ricky Riccardi] Here's a taste from Ricky's new book: ...

Lalo Schifrin

June 21, 2011

A very happy 79th birthday to Lalo Schifrin, one of the greatest composers jazz and film has ever known, a damned fine pianist and truly one of the nicest people you could ever want to meet. Born June 21, 1932, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lalo Schifrin's resume would be impossible to list here (check out my ...

David Binney: Underground Tremors

by Ian Patterson
June 20, 2011

There are recordings that constitute a personal high watermark for a composer; then there are, less frequently, recordings that mark an era. Graylen Epicenter (2011), alto saxophonist David Binney's latest recording on his own label, Mythology Records, is both. For more than two decades, this exhilarating alto saxophonist has made a string of absorbing recordings as ...

Intervista a Daniele D'Agaro

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2011

Fra i jazzisti italiani oggi più in vista, Daniele D'Agaro è forse quello che ha avuto la carriera più anomala. Nato nel 1958 a Spilinbergo (Pordenone), i suoi primi approcci con la musica sono stati del tutto occasionali. La sua formazione musicale si è compiuta all'estero, in modo lento e discontinuo, ma a diretto contatto con ...

Mansur Scott interview - The Story Behind The Music.

June 19, 2011

Q&A: Mike Metheny

June 20, 2011

We last heard from Mike Metheny on his excellent and insightful blog Doc Severinsen-A Legend, And A Friend. Since then he's been working on another musical project close to his heart, a compilation of his own favorite recorded tracks over the past 20 years. So we meet up again in the Q&A to talk about his ...

Latin Jazz Conversations: Bobby Sanabria (Part 3)

June 19, 2011

A full time dedication to music is an honorable way for a person to spend their life, and their legacy should be honored at every turn. When an individual focuses their complete energy upon artistic growth and the extension of a musical tradition, they take the road less traveled, insuring a life outside the mainstream. Unfortunately, ...