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Vicente Archer: 150 Albums, Grammys And An Unrelenting Pursuit of Music

by K. Shackelford
January 8, 2025

An instrument created in the 1500s, the acoustic bass has become a medium of harmonic and rhythmic sonority for bassist Vicente Archer. Over the past 30 years, he has bellowed out numerous melodic and harmonic narratives through the colossal instrument--gracing each improvisational moment with imagination and curation of timbre. Elicited by top names in ...

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Russell Gunn: No Safety Net, No Overdubs, Just Pure and Original

by Dean Nardi
January 6, 2025

One of the reasons podcasts have become so popular is they provide listeners with the experience of hearing people live, raw and unedited with no safety net as opposed to reading an article in a magazine or on the Internet. Even a Question & Answer interview is edited to remove repetitive comments and all the “ums" ...

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The Musical Evolution of Billie Davies

by La-Faithia White
December 29, 2024

Drummer Billie Davies' journey began in the north of Europe in coastal Belgium where she was born and raised. Davies was involved with two bands while living in Holland, in Terneuzen, a semi coastal port town. One band scored a lot of gigs with festivals and parties versus the other, who only played a few times ...

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Anett Tamm: a unique voice from the Baltics

by Anthony Shaw
December 28, 2024

Despite her relative youth, Anett Tamm is not a new voice in her mother country, Estonia, and neither among jazz followers in Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Greece, Finland and more. However this is a relatively select crowd, probably numbering in the hundreds, and with her taste in music veering wide of the mainstream, Anett Tamm is not ...

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Jose Antonio Diaz On 2025 JEN Conference

by K. Shackelford
December 26, 2024

The 2025 Jazz Education Network Conference will take place in Atlanta, Georgia from January 8-11, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency. This is the 16th year of this transformative music experience, where jazz educators, musicians, enthusiasts, curators, researchers and others gather together to learn, connect and discover. Last year, the organization drew over 4,000 national and international ...

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Riflettori su Manuel Caliumi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 23, 2024

Parliamo con uno dei sassofonisti italiani più in vista della sua generazione, già segnalato dalla stampa specializzata e molto richiesto dai gruppi più innovativi. Fondamentale è la sua presenza nel quartetto Emong di Michele Bonifati e nel Blend 3 di Andrea Grossi, con cui ha inciso album di alto spessore, ottenendo eccellenti valutazioni critiche. In occasione ...

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Marco Pennisi: la Red Records di oggi

by Libero Farnè
December 9, 2024

La foto riportata qui sopra, scattata da Curti Parini, è emblematica perché rappresenta il passato e il presente della Red Records, storica casa discografica milanese che dal 2021 ha ripreso quota, incrementando le sue mirate edizioni. Da sinistra possiamo distinguere Tommaso Belletti (digitale e promozione), Cem Cansu (store manager), l'attuale produttore e responsabile Marco Pennisi, Sergio ...

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Alexander Hawkins: Music as a Generous Space

by Giuseppe Segala
December 3, 2024

Born in Oxford in 1981, Alexander Hawkins is one of the leading musicians of his generation and a significant figure on the contemporary international scene. Personable and approachable, he is one of the few musicians of his age who engage meaningfully with the pioneering spirit of the African-American music tradition from the 1960s onward. His stylistic ...

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Collin Sherman: A Solitary Visionary in Jazz

by Robert Middleton
December 2, 2024

Collin Sherman is an outlier in the jazz world. He creates all his own music, plays every instrument, records everything himself, and rarely performs live. His approach is unconventional but deeply compelling, allowing him to produce music that defies easy categorization. In a conversation via Zoom, Sherman opened up about his journey, his creative process and ...

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Mario Mariotti, ricerca e improvvisazione tra contemporanea e jazz

by Neri Pollastri
December 2, 2024

Trombettista milanese di formazione accademica e dalle diversificate esperienze, appassionato esploratore dei multiformi scenari dell'improvvisazione, Mario Mariotti negli ultimi anni ha proposto lavori diversi tra loro, ma tutti molto interessanti. Abbiamo conversato con lui per conoscere meglio la sua personalità artistica. All About Jazz: Comincerei dal tuo interesse per Bill Dixon al quale ti ...