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Hubert Laws: Flute Virtuoso and NEA Jazz Master
by Greg Thomas
After James Moody and Frank Wess established the flute as a solo jazz instrument in the 1950s, and Herbie Mann popularized it in the 1960s, the musician that has become most identified with virtuosic flute performance in jazz is Hubert Laws, who became a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters Fellowship ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 1)
It's the unique nature of our childhood that shapes our individual qualities and forms our identities as artists. Our parents expose us to their own musical preferences and share their priorities for the arts in our lives. Their friends and our extended family add their own influences to our perceptions, exposing us to different sides of ...
An Interview with New Music Seminar Founder Tom Silverman on Digital Music and the Long Tail
This post is by Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv. Tom Silverman has made his entire career in the music industry. Circa the early 80s he founded Dance Music Report, the New Music Seminar (NMS) and Tommy Boy Records, now Tommy Boy Entertainment, whose roster includes hip hop staples De La Soul, Naughty by Nature, ...
Lead singer of Santa Barbara jazz band Sally Cats finds success with local music publication
Print isn't dead, at least not in Santa Barbara, California. Just ask Sally Barr, the editor/publisher of Music! The Sounds of Santa Barbara, a monthly magazine focusing on the region's diverse music scene, especially its jazz players. And Barr certainly has enough credentials to pull off such a locally-focused publication, having been an integral part of ...
Stanley Clarke: Path Maker
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within ...
The Sandra Wilson Show has Mwalim on 2/23 @ 8PM
SOUTH CAROLINA—Popular talk-show host, Sandra Wilson will be interviewing Liberation Music—MGM recording artist Mwalim on the Sandra Wilson Show, Wednesday, 2/23 @ 8PM (EST) on blogtalkradio.com. Ms Wilson and Mwalim will be discussing Mwalim's impressive career as a playwright and underground soul-funk-jazz artist and his emergence as a mainstream soul and jazz artist, with the hit ...
John Santos: Breaking Down Barriers in the Latin Music Continuum
Bay Area based percussionist-bandleader-educator John Santos is one of the most authoritative musicians I know when it comes to multiple facets of the Afro-Cuban and Latino-Hispanic music continuum. Equally versed in the Latin-jazz vein, salsa and the historic implications of music from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, Santos' latest recording is the exciting folkloric La Esperanza. We sought ...
T.K. Blue Goes Latin Bird Hunting on His Latest
Saxophonist-flutist-educator-bandleader T.K Blue, longtime music director for Randy Weston's African Rhythms ensembles, will soon release Latin Bird, his Latin treatments of the music of the immortal Charlie Parker. T.K. is of Caribbean descent and has extensive experience in island grooves, Latin music, and a thorough immersion in African rhythms—not only from his two decades plus traveling ...
Russ Gershon: Time Traveler, Four Million Years Later
by Ian Patterson
Twenty-five years is a long time in jazz. When saxophonist/composer/bandleader Russ Gershon founded the Either/Orchestra back in 1985, trumpeter Miles Davis was on the crest of his jazz/funk comeback wave, and the so-called Young Lions movement fronted by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was coming into prominence, just as Weather Report--the last of the great '70s fusion bands--was ...
Kenny Werner: nuovi suoni trascendenti
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di R.J. De Luke L'ispirazione di un artista è una cosa curiosa. Assume svariate forme, differenti prospettive, che vanno dal personale all'universale. Molto spesso arriva inaspettata. S'intreccia con la vita e le vicissitudini. Come ebbe a dire Charlie Parker, “Se non la vivi, non uscirà mai dal tuo strumento." Per Kenny Werner, pianista, compositore e ...
