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Joan Jeanrenaud: The Beat of the Moment
by Anil Prasad
Playing it safe is a concept in which cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has total disinterest. Her deep, varied career reflects a restless creative spirit that most recently manifested itself on Pop-Pop (Deconet, 2010), her duo album with producer and percussionist PC Muñoz. The disc seamlessly blends cello, classical, electronica, and hip-hop influences. But, perhaps, the most important ...
Other Places: Bill Holman Lauded
On his Jazz Profiles website, Steve Cerra begins a tribute to Bill Holman with this passage:In Japan, a select few of those who maintain the country's artistic traditions or make a unique contribution to them are accorded the respect of the nation by being designated as a Living National Treasure [a considerable amount of schimolies also ...
Tina Sinatra Laments the Loss of Her Dad Frank and the Death of Rat Pack Cool
It's been around 50 years since the Rat Pack, perhaps the world's first supergroup, hit the Las Vegas strip, and they've defined cool ever since. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. personified an era where music was smooth, cocktails were neat and the way you wore your hat meant everything. ...
Reissuing CTI: The Richard Seidel Interview
If you've bought more than one jazz CD in the past thirty years or so, chances are you have at least one that was made possible courtesy of producer Richard Seidel. During his two plus decades at the Verve label, Seidel was responsible for rescuing some of jazz's greatest recordings for the digital age and promoting ...
Esperanza Spalding: The Intimate Balance
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
To celebrate Esperanza Spalding's Grammy award win as “Best New Artist," we're rerunning this September 2010 interview. Enjoy!Fans of classical music and jazz have argued about music for years. If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Duke Ellington had ever met, they may have looked at each other in awe--right before debating about bars and notes ...
Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries
by Gordon Marshall
Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of ...
Paolo Botti: l'anima arcaica di Albert Ayler
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il suo disco Angels & Ghosts, pubblicato dall'etichetta Caligola, è stato una delle grandi sorprese del 2010. L'idea di rileggere il repertorio di Albert Ayler con soli strumenti a corda come viola, dobro, banjo, mandolino è stata infatti, nella sua rischiosa originalità, una scommessa che Paolo Botti ha vinto in modo trionfale e emozionante. Il musicista ...
Singer/Songwriter Robin Holcomb Interviewed at All About Jazz
While she's been around since the early '80s, emerging in New York's Downtown Scene alongside husband Wayne Hortivtz, pianist/vocalist Robin Holcomb made her first major leap onto a broader radar with her eponymous 1990 debut, on Nonesuch Records. Her ability to combine left-leaning concerns with Americana traditionalism and historical concerns have made her a unique voice ...
Moody in Norway: An Update, Illustrated
James Moody toured in most parts of the world and made friends wherever he went. Following his death in December, the Norwegian pianist Per Husby sent the story of his encounter with Moody a couple of decades ago and the touching question Moody asked him the day after their concert. The pictures and captions below will ...
Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud Interviewed at All About Jazz
Playing it safe is a concept in which cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has total disinterest. Her deep, varied career reflects a restless creative spirit that most recently manifested itself on Pop-Pop (Deconet, 2010), her duo album with producer and percussionist PC Muñoz. The disc seamlessly blends cello, classical, electronica, and hip-hop influences. But, perhaps, the most important ...
