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Alan Trustman on Bullitt
Yesterday afternoon, an email arrived in my in-box with a curious subject line: “That's MY car chase. MINE!!" The writer was, of course, referring to my article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal here on the famed car chase from Bullitt, the 1968 film starring Steve McQueen. Over the past weekend I was in San Francisco driving ...
Esperanza Spalding stands tall, hair and all
NEW YORK—When Esperanza Spalding plays her upright bass, the bulky instrument extends over her unruly mass of curls by half a foot as she bobs and weaves to complex jazz rhythms. The pairing's a visual mismatch, but there's no doubt she's in comm “Maybe it looks like I'm working hard, but I'm pretty relaxed," says the ...
Interview: Loren Janes of Bullitt
As a kid growing up in New York in the late '60s, I had a thing for the movie Bullitt starring Steve McQueen. While I didn't necessarily understand the plot, I was mesmerized by the car chase. At the local candy store, all of my friends talked obsessively about it, probably because watching the sequence felt ...
Intervista a David Tronzo (parte prima)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa lunghissima intervista a David Tronzo è rimasta per molti anni nel cassetto per motivi disparati: un po' di pigrizia, un po' di dubbi su come utilizzarla, insomma le solite cose. Ma Tronzo rimane un chitarrista formidabile che con la sua slide guitar sta cercando di dare voce alla nuova musica di un nuovo millennio che ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Wayne Wallace (Part 1)
Community plays a powerful role in the creation of a musician; individuals evolve into artists through the impact of the world spinning around them. Musical movements often define a region, leaving their mark upon all its inhabitants. Some areas resonate with a single-minded focus upon one artistic direction while other places overflow with different ideas. For ...
BLN.KR - Update Your Band Profiles All at Once
If you're a regular reader of Hypebot, chances are, you're already updating your MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter all at once. However, everyone loves options and shiny new artist tools, so I'll hip you to a new site called Bln.ker. It enables you to share all of your new songs—with a single click—across multiple platforms, saving you ...
Cuban Legend Paquito D'Rivera Interviewed at All About Jazz
There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain—the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else ...
Paquito D'Rivera: Jazz at the Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain--the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else ...
Why My Band Left MySpace and Facebook - For Good
Recently I spoke with Robin Davey who is a musician, director, and producer. His bands include The Hoax and most recently the eclectic pop duo The Bastard Fairies. Davey has directed music videos for Buckcherry, Jet and Drowning Pool and his documentary The Canary Effect won The Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative film making at ...
Bassist Matthew Garrison Interviewed at AAJ...and More!
Bassist/composer Matthew Garrison is, without a doubt, one of the most technically gifted musicians of his generation. Over the last two decades he has been employed by such high-caliber leaders as [pianist-keyboardists] Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Geri Allen; [saxophonists] Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker and Steve Coleman; [guitarists] John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, John Scofield; [drummers] Jack ...
