Results for "Interview"

Matt Jorgensen: Painting With Sound

by Joshua Weiner
March 15, 2011

Matt Jorgensen is a very busy man. A drummer and composer, he plays and records with a wide variety of musicians, including his own long-running quartet 451 and popular trumpeter and label-mate Thomas Marriott. Jorgensen also co-manages the Origin Records label, a thriving concern that has released over 300 discs since 1997, and that now encompasses ...

Drummer Matt Jorgensen Interviewed at All About Jazz

March 15, 2011

Matt Jorgensen is a very busy man. A drummer and composer, he plays and records with a wide variety of musicians, including his own long-running quartet 451 and popular trumpeter and label-mate Thomas Marriott. Jorgensen also co-manages the Origin Records label, a thriving concern that has released over 300 discs since 1997, and that now encompasses ...

Wadada Leo Smith: The Teacher

by Franz A. Matzner
March 14, 2011

Wadada Leo Smith's career as a creative musician spans more than forty years. The trumpeter/composer's myriad accomplishments have been well-documented, particularly recently, as his recoding and performance career have undergone a marked renaissance, the success of which has shown a spotlight not only on his recent undertakings, but also inspired a reexamination of his past works.

Intervista a Piero Odorici

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 14, 2011

Non c'è musicista che non abbia segnato in qualche modo la storia del jazz che non voglia Piero Odorici con sé in studio o sul palco, in Italia o in giro per il mondo. Da Slide Hampton a Curtis Fuller, passando per Harold Mabern, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Red Rodney, Steve Grossman, Sal Nistico, Mike Le ...

Gilad Atzmon interview - "Free as Bird"

March 13, 2011

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith Interviewed at All About Jazz....And More!

March 14, 2011

Wadada Leo Smith's career as a creative musician spans more than forty years. The trumpeter/composer's myriad accomplishments have been well-documented, particularly recently, as his recoding and performance career have undergone a marked renaissance, the success of which has shown a spotlight not only on his recent undertakings, but also inspired a reexamination of his past works. ...

Interview with $77m Richer CEO of Beyond Oblivion

March 12, 2011

Beyond Oblivion, who recently recevied a $77 million investment from News Corp, is building Nokia's “Comes With Music" all over again. Undeterred by the fact that Nokia has scaled back the service, the company intends to bake the cost of unlimited music into digital devices. CEO Adam Kidro believes that “Comes With Music" failed because it was ...

Roy Haynes, Master Jazz Drummer, Still Going Strong at 86

March 12, 2011

I seem to be on a roll lately with getting bone fide living legends on the phone. This time around, I caught up with Roy Haynes on the eve of his 86th birthday—and just after he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys— at his home on New York's Long Island. To study Haynes' résumé ...

New Orleans Jazz: Charles Betts on the Addictive Music of Harry Connick, Jr.

March 11, 2011

Charles Betts, Felix Online New Orleans music is an addiction. Its diversity portrays every emotional state and as the legendary jazz musician Ellis Marsalis puts it, at a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, the sounds of the Bayou represent a celebration of the individual. Put simply, without it life would be emptier. Harry ...

Marsalis and Blanchard Focus on the New, Not the Tried-and-True

March 11, 2011

By Dan Emerson, TwinCities.com Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who led their respective bands Sunday night at Orchestra Hall, don't seem old enough to have had a 40-year musical relationship. But that is the case, Marsalis, 50, told the audience. They met as grade-schoolers at a summer jazz camp in their native New Orleans ...