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Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith Interviewed at All About Jazz....And More!
Wadada Leo Smith's career as a creative musician spans more than forty years. The trumpeter/composer's myriad accomplishments have been well-documented, particularly recently, as his recoding and performance career have undergone a marked renaissance, the success of which has shown a spotlight not only on his recent undertakings, but also inspired a reexamination of his past works. ...
Interview with $77m Richer CEO of Beyond Oblivion
Beyond Oblivion, who recently recevied a $77 million investment from News Corp, is building Nokia's “Comes With Music" all over again. Undeterred by the fact that Nokia has scaled back the service, the company intends to bake the cost of unlimited music into digital devices. CEO Adam Kidro believes that “Comes With Music" failed because it was ...
Roy Haynes, Master Jazz Drummer, Still Going Strong at 86
I seem to be on a roll lately with getting bone fide living legends on the phone. This time around, I caught up with Roy Haynes on the eve of his 86th birthday—and just after he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys— at his home on New York's Long Island. To study Haynes' résumé ...
New Orleans Jazz: Charles Betts on the Addictive Music of Harry Connick, Jr.
Charles Betts, Felix Online New Orleans music is an addiction. Its diversity portrays every emotional state and as the legendary jazz musician Ellis Marsalis puts it, at a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, the sounds of the Bayou represent a celebration of the individual. Put simply, without it life would be emptier. Harry ...
Marsalis and Blanchard Focus on the New, Not the Tried-and-True
By Dan Emerson, TwinCities.com Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who led their respective bands Sunday night at Orchestra Hall, don't seem old enough to have had a 40-year musical relationship. But that is the case, Marsalis, 50, told the audience. They met as grade-schoolers at a summer jazz camp in their native New Orleans ...
Interview: SAC President Eddie Schwartz on Licensing File-Sharers
Earlier this week, we posted a link to a proposal by the Songwriters Association of Canada, a non-profit advocacy group that represents the interests of songwriters. The proposal, which essentially provides a model that would make money for rights holders off of file-sharing, has been called an attempt at “control" by P2Pnet and looked at skeptically ...
Lorenzo Gasperoni - Africa, mon amour
by AAJ Italy Staff
Batterista e percussionista. Nasce con il punk e il pop, cresce con il jazz, si innamora dell'Africa. La pubblicazione del suo ultimo album Opposite People, dedicato a Fela Kuti, ci ha dato lo spunto per incontrarlo e farci raccontare il suo percorso artistico. All About Jazz: Come nasce la tua passione per la musica? Lorenzo Gasperoni: ...
Punch Brothers: Gunning for Transcendence
By Dennis Cook The Punch Brothers are currently out on their Spring 2011 tour. They play tonight (3/9) at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR and then a three-night run at Alyeska Resort in Alaska (3/10-3/12). Full tour dates are here. Usually, evolution is not something that can be willed into being. It's a process of ...
How Hyperlocal Blogs Impact Music [interview]
Recently I spoke to Jason, who is the Founder and Editor of The Pop Cop, a Glasgow based music blog, which focuses on the Scottish music scene, with daily updated news, reviews, features, and interviews. He also founded and runs the Music Alliance Pact, which sees around 35 music blogs from around the world (one per ...
