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David Binney's 'Graylen Epicenter' Marks Creative Breakthrough for Jazz Saxophonist
Alto saxophonist David Binney has been on the New York jazz scene for years now, collaborating regularly with fellow saxophonists Chris Potter or Donny McCaslin, or playing the hired gun for icons like Jim Hall, Bill Frisell and countless others. He's released several records as a leader on his own label and smaller European imprints, becoming ...
Loose Tubes: Tomorrow Night is Your Last Chance Ever
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become ...
Completamente liberato: intervista a Gianluca Petrella
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è stato semplice trovare un day-off nell'agenda di Gianluca Petrella per condurre questa intervista. È ormai una star del firmamento jazzistico, e come tale è impegnato in diversi contesti, progetti e iniziative artistiche di varia natura. Al trombonista pugliese abbiamo rivolto delle domande tese a far luce sui motivi di Slaves, il primo lavoro in ...
Terry Gibbs on Benny Goodman
"[In 1950, when I was in Benny Goodman's Sextet], Benny used to bug me every time I would start to play my jazz choruses. He would let me play for about eight bars, and if I started swinging, he'd immediately pick up his clarinet and join me in playing. But first he'd put his cigarette down ...
Loose Tubes' Django Bates and Mark Lockheart Interiewed at All About Jazz
Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become ...
Pianist Justin Kauflin Interviewed at All About Jazz
The beauty of music lies in its subliminal spirituality. Religious or not, few can argue the effects of music on the human emotions and how it impacts our perception of things beyond what is skin-deep. For 24 year-old Justin Kauflin, a New York-based pianist notable for his work with Jae Sinnett, and for his freshman release ...
Pianist Keiko Matsui Interviewed at All About Jazz
Keiko Matsui has been out of the studio but relentlessly trotting the globe since 2007's Moyo (Shout! Factory), her acclaimed South African-inspired recording that featured the Japanese-born pianist/composer/producer collaborating with trumpeter Hugh Masakela, among others. The Road... (Shanachie, 2011) marks the further evolution of her signature sound and demonstrates a new chapter in her artistic growth. ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 5)
The idea of making a statement is given a lot of lip service in the jazz world, but little thought goes into the impact of that statement. Most times, people consider improvisational solos to be the major statements in jazz, and in a sense, that's true. Musical choices in improvisation say a lot about an individual's ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 4)
Life is certainly an endless circle of possibilities; whenever we see an ending, it's always likely to find a new beginning. The artistic world seems filled with an inherently frustrating series of roadblocks, derailing finely tuned plans for new directions. Some individuals see this as an ending point to further artistic work and simply stop any ...
Kevin Eubanks: punto e a capo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Matthew Warnock Per milioni di Americani e non, Kevin Eubanks sarà sempre indissolubilmente associato alla band del Tonight Show di Jay Leno, forte di un sodalizio che e' durato ben 18 anni. Ma per chi ha seguito la sua carriera al di fuori del programma televisivo, Eubanks è soprattutto un grande chitarrista e un ...


