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Interview | Steve Lehman
On Friday, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop’s three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series begins. Following interviews with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Vijay Iyer earlier this week, today we share a conversation with saxophonist Steve Lehman. Lehman’s 2009 recording Travail, Transformation, and Flow was praised for creating a dialogue between spectral harmony and jazz—the daring work rightfully ...
Keiko Matsui: And The Road...Goes On
by Jeff Winbush
Keiko Matsui has been out of the studio but relentlessly trotting the globe since 2007's Moyo (Shout! Factory), her acclaimed South African-inspired recording that featured the Japanese-born pianist/composer/producer collaborating with trumpeter Hugh Masakela, among others. The Road... (Shanachie, 2011) marks the further evolution of her signature sound and demonstrates a new chapter in her artistic growth. ...
Ian Kwon on Fanatic.FM's Platform to Monetize Music by Connecting Artists with Brands and Charities
Volumes have been written on how to monetize music in the post-Napster age. Most recently, streaming music and selling direct to fans are touted as industry saviors. But Ian Kwon, who I met and began advising last year offers a different solution that's a four-way win for artists, brands, charities and fans. In this interview, Kwon ...
Interview | Vijay Iyer
On Saturday, March 12, for the second night of Ars Nova Workshop’s Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Tyshawn Sorey, and saxophonist Steve Lehman will play in trio. The following night, pieces composed by Iyer and Lehman will be performed with the JACK Quartet. As Pitchfork wrote in a review of Iyer’s 2010 release, Solo, ...
Justin Kauflin: Humble Beginnings
by Marshall Taylor
The beauty of music lies in its subliminal spirituality. Religious or not, few can argue the effects of music on the human emotions and how it impacts our perception of things beyond what is skin-deep. For 24 year-old Justin Kauflin, a New York-based pianist notable for his work with Jae Sinnett, and for ...
Interview | Tyshawn Sorey
This Friday night, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop begins its three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series with a performance of Fieldwork drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s composition, “For Kathy Change.” Inspired by Kathy Change, an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996, Sorey’s ensemble ...
David Binney's 'Graylen Epicenter' Marks Creative Breakthrough for Jazz Saxophonist
Alto saxophonist David Binney has been on the New York jazz scene for years now, collaborating regularly with fellow saxophonists Chris Potter or Donny McCaslin, or playing the hired gun for icons like Jim Hall, Bill Frisell and countless others. He's released several records as a leader on his own label and smaller European imprints, becoming ...
Loose Tubes: Tomorrow Night is Your Last Chance Ever
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become ...
Completamente liberato: intervista a Gianluca Petrella
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è stato semplice trovare un day-off nell'agenda di Gianluca Petrella per condurre questa intervista. È ormai una star del firmamento jazzistico, e come tale è impegnato in diversi contesti, progetti e iniziative artistiche di varia natura. Al trombonista pugliese abbiamo rivolto delle domande tese a far luce sui motivi di Slaves, il primo lavoro in ...
Terry Gibbs on Benny Goodman
"[In 1950, when I was in Benny Goodman's Sextet], Benny used to bug me every time I would start to play my jazz choruses. He would let me play for about eight bars, and if I started swinging, he'd immediately pick up his clarinet and join me in playing. But first he'd put his cigarette down ...
