Results for "Interview"

Interview with My Major Company CEO PR Albertini on Fan-Funding and Record Labels

March 3, 2011

Recently I spoke with Paul-Rene Albertini, the CEO a new internet-based, fan-funded record label called My Major Company. In this interview, Albertini and I talk about various aspects of fan-funding and how it's posed to shift the current music landscape. Kyle Bylin: Well, thank you for chatting with me today. What led you to start MMC? ...

An interview with Daniel Lantz, keyboardist for Swedish jazz-funk band Beat Funktion

March 3, 2011

As the keyboardist of the jazz-funk outfit Beat Funktion, Daniel Lantz is at the center of a disco maelstrom. Taken as a whole instead of the sum of its parts, Beat Funktion is a fireball of pop smarts, a living, breathing groove machine that grinds together the sweat-drenched vintage R&B of James Brown with the sexy ...

James Lent: The Man at the Piano

by Gary Bennett
March 2, 2011

The Other Side has been a landmark of Hyperion Avenue, sandwiched between a gymnasium and an eatery or two in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles, for several decades. Ownership has changed once or twice; bartenders have come and gone. But faithful patronage of the restaurant-bar hasn't waned. Inside, the blood-red walls are ...

Geni Skendo: Breaking Free

by Gordon Marshall
March 1, 2011

Flautist and shakuhachi master Geni Skendo does not genre-mash so much as genre-crash, like a late-night interloper joining a lame party and livening it up with exotic sound. It's miraculous, this color he brings to anything, given the drab Iron Curtain he exited under on his flight from his native Albania, traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to ...

Interview

Featuring the music of Benny Powell
Duration: 8:05
March 1, 2011

Flautist Geni Skendo Interviewed at All About Jazz

March 1, 2011

Flautist and shakuhachi master Geni Skendo does not genre-mash so much as genre-crash, like a late-night interloper joining a lame party and livening it up with exotic sound. It's miraculous, this color he brings to anything, given the drab Iron Curtain he exited under on his flight from his native Albania, traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to ...

Drive-by Truckers: Mercy Buckets

March 1, 2011

By : Dennis Cook The Truckers are currently out on the road bringing their glorious rock show to cities far and wide. Their next show is Wednesday, March 2, in Reno, NV, followed by gigs in Las Vegas (3/3) and a two-night stand in San Francisco (3/4-3/5). Find full tour dates here. Go-Go Boots (released February ...

Interview | Nate Wooley

March 1, 2011

On March 5, Ars Nova Workshop presents a performance at Vox Populi by trumpeter Nate Wooley, violinist and electronicist C. Spencer Yeh, cellist Okkyung Lee, and percussionist Paul Lytton. With expansive avant-garde affiliations – noise, jazz, free improv, downtown – Wooley assembled this quartet “to see if a collision of forward thinking practitioners of each of ...

Franco D'Andrea passato e presente - L'intervista dei 70 anni

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2011

Alla vigilia dei settant'anni, Franco D'Andrea ha ricevuto dalla prestigiosa Académie du Jazz de France il premio “Musicien Européen de l'année 2010," tributo doveroso a una carriera che da anni si mantiene ai vertici del jazz internazionale. È appena stato pubblicato il suo ultimo lavoro in quartetto (Sorapis, El Gallo Rojo) e tra pochi giorni inizia ...

Roberta Piket: Making a Difference

by Victor L. Schermer
February 28, 2011

Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. She thinks hard when she ...