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Pianist Roberta Piket Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. Truly a contemporary player, pushing ...
Pianist James Lent Interviewed at All About Jazz
He may not be well-known, but Los Angeles-based pianist, Dr. James Lent has been a mainstay at The Other Side, in the city's Silverlake area, for nearly a decade. He's also not particularly well-recorded, with only one album, 2000's self-produced Blue, to date. But Lent, like so many hard-working musicians for whom the playing's the thing, ...
Sonny Rollins Strives for Perfection, Recalls Freezing on "The Bridge"
Born in 1930, Sonny Rollins grew up in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem and has been at the center of the jazz universe ever since. The saxophonist fell in love with the playing of Coleman Hawkins (who lived in his neighborhood) and Charlie Parker and came to be tutored by the great Thelonious Monk. He ...
Sally Street, the new "It Girl" of the Australian jazz scene, stings again on latest release
The scorpion mind of singer/songwriter Sally Street certainly has quite a sting. On one of her latest songs, Street exclaims, “Now the whole world knows I got laid," followed by a breathless sigh of pleasure. Naughty? Without a doubt. But in the buttoned-up world of jazz, Street's brazen, often playfully funny sensuality is like a splash ...
Other Places: Arturo O'Farrill's Cuban Odyssey
Many listeners know that Arturo O'Farrill is a talented New York pianist who leads Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. He has been a considerable force in Latin music in the US for three decades. Fewer may be aware that he is the son of Chico O'Farrill, a Cuban of Irish origin who was one ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 2)
Individuals find their way into music for a variety of reasons, but they eventually discover a prime motivating factor that allows them to continue. For some musicians, the community aspect of the art form evolves into a lifestyle that not only pays their bills, but also defines their social circles. Demand for a musician's abilities lead ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 3)
Entry points into jazz area vital part of the relationship between musicians and the general audience. As jazz moves further out of popular culture, artists need to find a way to invite listeners back into the fold. In doing this, they need to reach beyond the academic beauty of jazz, and create the bridge between hearing ...
Jazzsnap: Buddy and Conte (1947)
JazzWax has come into possession of some amazing digital jazz photos from the 1940s. What makes these images special is that many were snapshots taken by a woman named Betty who was and remains crazy about jazz and jazz musicians. In fact, Betty was friends with many of her subjects. She also had a remarkable eye ...
Perico Sambeat: Jazz e Flamenco
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il sassofonista e compositore Perico Sambeat è uno dei principali jazzmen iberici ed una delle figure di riferimento per la nuova generazione del suo Paese, anche per la vasta esperienza internazionale. Tra le sue collaborazioni più note ricordiamo quelle con Brad Mehldau, Bruce Barth, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tete Montoliu, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker. Recentemente s'è concentrato sulla ...
Living in America: intervista a Simona Premazzi
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da alcuni anni la pianista Simona Premazzi ha deciso di trasferirsi a New York per sfamare la sua curiosità di jazz e di arte. Da quel momento si è inserita nel flusso vitale della Grande Mela - suonando e facendo diverse esperienze - fino a dare alle stampe un paio di album di sicuro valore: Looking ...
