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35 years of Jazz in Santa Cruz, California Celebrated through Jazz Alley Mural
Santa Cruz, California's Kuumbwa Jazz Center has grown from its small beginnings to one of the most highly respected jazz-presenting institutions in the country, attracting artists of national and international renown. In 2010, the venue turned 35 and celebrated by helping to commission Jazz Alley, a 80-foot-by-12-foot mural depicting five famous jazz artists, but not the ...
Interview: B.B. King
Proud of your vast CD collection? Think your iTunes library is bursting with great stuff? Trust me, B.B. King has you beat. Two weeks ago, when I was in Missouri to interview the 85-year-old blues legend while he was touring on the road, I spent time with “the Boss" in the back of his cozy bus. ...
Interview | Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham has played trumpet since the early-1980s but it’s still appropriate to recognize his new Brass Trio as a significant sea change. Known for organizing terrifyingly large ensembles with up to 400 guitarists, the pioneering composer who has found a common thread running through punk fury, minimalism, and avant-garde jazz displayed the strongest trumpet work ...
Tom Moon: From Musician to Critic--And Back Again
by R.J. DeLuke
Award-winning writer Tom Moon spent about three years doing research for a book that recommends recordings people should listen to at some point, well, before they die. It's a well-considered and valuable book, and it champions a great way to fill leisure time while enlightening oneself. It guides readers into musical areas they may otherwise not ...
John Levy on Toni Harper
Last week, singer Toni Harper reflected on the albums she recorded with Oscar Peterson in 1956 and Marty Paich in 1959 and 1960. In 1963 she traveled to Japan with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. John Levy [pictured], Adderley's personal manager at the time, wrote me an email last week about that tour: “Cannonball and his group ...
Seeking the Essence of Freddie Hubbard: Suzanne Pittson "Out of the Hub"
Vocalist Suzanne Pittson previously accepted the challenge of lyrically interpreting John Coltrane's opus “Resolution" from “A Love Supreme." With Alice Coltrane's consent she did so with all due humility... and with gusto! Her latest effort is a loving tribute to an artist whose legend appears to be growing slowly in ancestry, the late NEA Jazz Master ...
An Interview with Mog Ceo David Hyman on Youtube and Subscription Music Services
Friday afternoon, I spoke with David Hyman, who is the founder and CEO of MOG, a cloud-based music service. In this interview, David and I talk about the impact of YouTube on music and why free-trials on subscription music services need to be longer. What follows is a edited version of our AIM conversation. Hypebot: Afternoon ...
Interview | Chris Forsyth
Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth opens for Rhys Chatham Brass Trio on Sunday, February 13. A member of boundary-pushing, outsider trio Peeesseye and caretaker of the Evolving Ear imprint, Forsyth builds upon a firm foundation of minimalism, blues, improv, and psychedelic rock while always articulating new sonic terrains. In preparation for his performance, Ars Nova Workshop spoke ...
Taylor Haskins: Fiato alla tromba!
by AAJ Italy Staff
di R.J. DeLuke Taylor Haskins si sta costruendo qualcosa di più di una semplice carriera nel panorama jazzistico, grazie alla sua abilità come musicista e alla naturalezza con cui suona la tromba. Ha un tono forte e deciso, delle solide basi e l'apporto di numerose influenze, che lo fanno sentire a proprio agio ed eccellere in ...
Microscopic Septet: Chance Meeting with the Future
by Gordon Marshall
The Microscopic Septet is all about swing, but swing in a sense extrapolated from the stale, dated pages of the past. Its take on the music of the '30s and '40s is too scholarly to fall off the map as retro, and too deeply felt to be dismissed as a dusty trove of museum pieces. The ...
