Results for "Interview"

Hiromi is the Hendrix of the Piano.

January 16, 2011

I don't get jazz sexism. I used to read Down Beat magazine and my favorite section was the blindfold test where notable artists would listen to tunes selected for them to critique. When you got someone like Miles Davis listening to something he thought was crap he wasn't shy about saying so. What I don't remember ...

Avant-Jazzers Conference Call Interviewed at All About Jazz

January 17, 2011

Conference Call can be as balanced and beautiful as an intricate organism, but just as soon rage with holy fire. The quartet—consisting of saxophonist Gebhard Ullman, bassist Joe Fonda, drummer George Schuller and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens—perpetually weaves in all three dimensions, as well as in time—its own, and music history's. Together since the late '90s, ...

Mr Ho's Orchestrotica's Brian O'Neill Interviewed at All About Jazz

January 18, 2011

Led by pianist and multi-percussionist Brian O'Neill, Mr Ho's Orchestrotica plays the kind of music you can listen to with your mother. She'll love the '50s atmosphere of The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel (Exotica For Modern Living, 2010)—while you'll pick up all the left-of-center global hints—and she won't even know it's good for her! It's good, ...

Latin Jazz Conversations: Paquito D'Rivera (Part 4)

January 14, 2011

When a musician moves into the mature stage of their artistic development, they carry a responsibility to themselves, their listeners, and the great musical community. After committing so many years of their lives to the art form, they need to make a significant statement that reflects their own personalities. At the same time, they need to ...

Heightened Awareness of Legal Sites Won't Steer Fans Away from Music Piracy [interview]

January 14, 2011

Recently, I spoke with Joe Cox, who is an economist at of the University of Portsmouth. He recently published a paper titled Seeders, leechers and social norms: Evidence from the market for illicit digital downloading and proclaimed that file-sharers see themselves as the Robin Hoods of the digital age. In this interview, Cox talks about issues ...

Joe Lovano is the Laughing Buddha of Mainstream Jazz

January 14, 2011

I write today in praise of Joe Lovano, a man whom I called in NYMag's jazz listings “the laughing Buddha of mainstream jazz." Ten years ago—on June 2nd, 2001 to be exact—I went to the Vanguard for the very first time, a 16-year-old discovering the music, taken with Lovano's 1992 release From the Soul. (The copy ...

UYS - Miroslav Vitous & Jean-Luc Ponty interviews.

January 14, 2011

Latin Jazz Conversations: Paquito D'Rivera (Part 5)

January 15, 2011

Depth and diversity really define the magnitude of an artist's career, and determines the impact that their musical will have over time. Most artists pick a direction that dictates their musical output, but only a select few dig far into the history and potential of their chosen path. If they do, they rarely change course and ...

Jazzwax List: Lou's Organists

January 15, 2011

Lou Donaldson was one of the first alto saxophonists to perform and record consistently with a Hammond B3 behind him. He used the sound extensively on the road in the '50s while touring across the country and developed a new jazz-funk approach in the '60s. Here's a list of the groovy organists who have recorded with ...

Remembering the Jazz Ambassador: Billy Taylor

January 15, 2011

On Monday, January 10 Dr. Billy Taylor was given a rich, warm send-off totally befitting one of the classiest musicians and people jazz music has ever produced. Dave Brubeck wrote of “The Real Ambassadors," Dr. Billy Taylor was the most REAL Ambassador of all. Here's a man responsible for introducing the beauties and wonders of jazz ...