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Buddy DeFranco on Shearing
When people talk about the “George Shearing sound," they are referring to a special combination of instruments that the pianist first assembled in late 1948—and how he arranged those instruments to produce a gentle, swinging approach to jazz. The instrument mix—piano, vibes, guitar, bass and drums—tricks the ear into thinking it's listening to a much larger ...
Brad Mehldau - The Art of Solo Piano
Virtuosic pianist Brad Melhdau first made his mark in the jazz world in 1995 with his debut recording Introducing Brad Mehldau and then in the classical arena in 2006 with his release Love Sublime with vocalist Renee Fleming. Mehldau is a dazzling and brilliant player who maintains one of the finest trios in all of jazz. ...
Intervista a David Tronzo (parte quarta)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Parte quarta [per leggere la prima parte clicca qui, per la seconda parte clicca qui, per la terza clicca qui] All About Jazz: Vorrei parlare con te di distribuzione e gestione della propria carriera... David Tronzo: Ok, va bene! Insomma, a questo punto avrai capito che sia adesso, sia quando ero ad Amsterdam, e prima ancora ...
Exfm: The Web is Your Music Library [interview]
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This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. Recently I spoke with Charles Smith, Founder and COO of exfm, a new music discovery service that works as a browser extension for Chrome, turning the entire web into your personal music library. As you browse any website that hosts MP3s, exfm automatically catalogues every ...
Joan Jeanrenaud: The Beat of the Moment
by Anil Prasad
Playing it safe is a concept in which cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has total disinterest. Her deep, varied career reflects a restless creative spirit that most recently manifested itself on Pop-Pop (Deconet, 2010), her duo album with producer and percussionist PC Muñoz. The disc seamlessly blends cello, classical, electronica, and hip-hop influences. But, perhaps, the most important ...
Other Places: Bill Holman Lauded
On his Jazz Profiles website, Steve Cerra begins a tribute to Bill Holman with this passage:In Japan, a select few of those who maintain the country's artistic traditions or make a unique contribution to them are accorded the respect of the nation by being designated as a Living National Treasure [a considerable amount of schimolies also ...
Tina Sinatra Laments the Loss of Her Dad Frank and the Death of Rat Pack Cool
It's been around 50 years since the Rat Pack, perhaps the world's first supergroup, hit the Las Vegas strip, and they've defined cool ever since. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. personified an era where music was smooth, cocktails were neat and the way you wore your hat meant everything. ...
Reissuing CTI: The Richard Seidel Interview
If you've bought more than one jazz CD in the past thirty years or so, chances are you have at least one that was made possible courtesy of producer Richard Seidel. During his two plus decades at the Verve label, Seidel was responsible for rescuing some of jazz's greatest recordings for the digital age and promoting ...
Esperanza Spalding: The Intimate Balance
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
To celebrate Esperanza Spalding's Grammy award win as “Best New Artist," we're rerunning this September 2010 interview. Enjoy!Fans of classical music and jazz have argued about music for years. If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Duke Ellington had ever met, they may have looked at each other in awe--right before debating about bars and notes ...
Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries
by Gordon Marshall
Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of ...
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