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Jay Anderson: Driving the Bus
by Ian Patterson
The term “sideman" really doesn't do justice to bassist Jay Anderson, as his beautifully melodic, lyrical lines and in-the-pocket-grooves lift and shape any music that he is a part of. And while the term “journeyman" holds some truth--Anderson has played with a huge number of people--one glance at his extensive discography reveals that most of the ...
Intervista a Rhys Chatham
by AAJ Italy Staff
Rhys Chatham è un personaggio. Peculiare. Complesso. In perenne ricerca. Dunque eclettico. Dispersivo e concentrato, a seconda. È una figura chiave per capire un pezzo, e che grande!, della musica d'avanguardia contemporanea, in particolare newyorchese. Un mix, come potete leggere, che in una sola voce (che sia tromba o chitarra poco importa) fa confluire pezzi diversi ...
Albam from the Archives
One Monday night in the '70s, I found myself seated at a table in the Village Vanguard with Manny Albam, listening to the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. During a break, I said to him, “I wonder why you haven't written something for this band." “So do I," he said. To my knowledge, Albam never did ...
Casey Abrams: New American Idol Contestant is a Messenger with a Jazz Message
Before last Wednesday, I was like more than a few music fans in my instinctive dislike of the American Idol phenomenon. Cheap and showy, lowest-common-denominator entertainment, it was created in the same terrifying cauldron that Fox's 1989 Cops voyeurism and MTV's 1992 Real World success originally inspired, and which has since produced Survivor, Big Brother, Fear ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: The Isley Brothers
In a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career dating back to the early 1950s, the Isley Brothers stayed on the move—transforming themselves from gospel shouters to doo-woppers to early rock 'n' rollers to nasty funksters to lover-man balladeers. Of course, nowadays, you're more likely to hear their 1973 Top 10 hit “The Lady Pt. 1," ...
Creed Taylor: Impulse Years
The founding of Impulse Records in 1960 by Creed Taylor is a fascinating story. My interview with Creed in today's Wall Street Journal here looks at how he came up with the Impulse name while working as the jazz producer at ABC-Paramount. He also talks about the branding strategy behind Impulse's signature orange and black color ...
Sean Jones on "No Need for Words"... Soon Come
Trumpeter Sean Jones, who at 29 has become one of the busiest players of his generation is on the cusp of releasing a bracing new disc on Mack Avenue that deals with love in a more spiritual dimension. In addition to his recording and performing career Sean is a professor in the jazz studies program at ...
Picchio dal Pozzo, prove di ritorno
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra le formazioni più innovative dell'avant rock tricolore si collocano sicuramente i genovesi Picchio dal Pozzo. La loro musica, estranea del tutto a barocchismi o a ridicole rappresentazioni neo-romantiche, s'inserisce nella corrente più colta e, allo stesso tempo disincantata, del progressive europeo. Zappiani fino al midollo, soprattutto sul piano ideolologico dell'approccio “totale" alla materia sonora, hanno ...
An Interview with Dewey Syntax: Progressive Rock meets Jazz Fusion
The death of progressive rock has been greatly exaggerated. While it's true that prog has long been extinct from the public eye for decades now, the genre remains a living and breathing entity, kept alive by its pioneers and followers in an underground network of the faithful. Among them is Denver, Colorado-based guitarist Eric Dewey, who ...
Al Di Meola: Head and Heart
By Dennis Cook It's a small wonder that Al Di Meola isn't a major player in the jam scene. His pioneering work while just 20-years-old in Return To Forever alone should bestow the same elder statesman status as John Scofield and other electric jazz and fusion groundbreakers enjoy. Perhaps it's because Di Meola has cut his ...
