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Alex Skolnick Incorporates Thrash-Metal Origins Into His Jazz Work
People have their own path to becoming a jazz musician. Sometimes a parent or other family member who plays. Sometimes a musician starts off in one direction and then goes in another. Alex Skolnick has to be one of the most unique examples of the latter. The guitarist joined the thrash-metal band Testament when his was ...
Walter Kolosky: Affairs of the Heart
by Ian Patterson
It took journalist Walter Kolosky eight months to put together Follow Your Heart: John McLaughlin Song by Song (Abstract Logix, 2010), though, in effect, this impressive listener's guide has been the culmination of a lifetime listening to the English guitarist's music. Kolosky has written extensively on McLaughlin's music for many years, and has interviewed him many ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Alexa Weber Morales (Part 3)
Musicians are tasked with tapping into the thoughts and feelings of the current social climate and finding relevant ways to reach people. Musical statements are meant to be shared, and the most effective expressions find a way to connect with an audience. They discuss topics that effect the audience's everyday life and they they relate to ...
Joseph Polisi: Juilliard Jazz Hits Ten
by Greg Thomas
He's been president of the Juilliard School, the most prestigious performing arts institution in America, since 1984. Also an accomplished bassoonist, Dr. Joseph Polisi has performed as both soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, as well as at The Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall. ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Alexa Weber Morales (Part 2)
Musicians live a life filled with uncertainty, but one thing can be guaranteed—the journey towards musical fulfillment involves unexpected twists and turns. No one moves through their life on a straight road, but a musician almost certainly encounters a number of bumps along the way. Financial instability and the need for additional work can force a ...
Interview: Ralph Carmichael (Part 3)
In the last years of Nat King Cole's life, he sounded comfortable in the arms of Ralph Carmichael's charts. Admittedly lighter and more commercial than Cole's earlier Capitol dates, these albums need to be put in context. Easy listening LPs like Touch of Your Lips; Lazy Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer and L-O-V-E were indeed lighter ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Emerson Lake and Palmer
Emerson, Lake and Palmer somehow went from selling 40 million records early on to becoming one of the 1970s' more reviled rock bands by the end of that decade. The reasons were many. First, there was the emerging dumb-is-cool punk-rock movement—which gave way to the plasticine synth-scene of MTV, then to hair bands. ELP's interest in ...
Something Else! Interview: Orrin Evans, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Bandleader
By Nick DeRiso Orrin Evans arrived amidst a wave of new jazz performers in the early 1990s. Unlike many of those young lions, however, he managed to bob up from that era's ultimately empty retro-conservatism. “A lot of those guys, quite frankly," Orrin says, “just gave too much of a f—. And I never did." By ...
Interview: Ralph Carmichael (Part 2)
Ralph Carmichael likes to arrange strings in clusters. This technique allows him to take the largest possible group of violins, violas and cellos and, by bunching them into groups and voicing them as mini ensembles, he ensures richness and clarity without clutter and sweetness. For Ralph, the goal always is to create a luminous frame for ...
Wynton Marsalis Spreads the Gospel of Commitment to Youth
Practice. As in dedication. Also see: integrity. Every time he gets a chance, Wynton Marsalis lays a message on young people that requires no fancy instrument, just a solo commitment. The jazz and classical trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer got that chance recently at a Passport to Manhood program in the gym of the Boys & ...
