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Max Makes It Happen.
Maxim Micheliov is part of a robust Jazz advocacy community in Vilnius Lithuania that comes highly recommended by friends who have performed there. Max with Roy Campbell jr. 1. Describe your discovery of music. “The sounds of music have always been heard at our home. Both my parents love music. We had a quite big collection ...
Fabrizio Sotti: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Great Album
by Matthew Warnock
Recording a jazz album is never easy. Compared to most genres of music, where everything is prearranged and planned out ahead of time, there is a large amount of spontaneity when it comes to laying down a jazz record. Many times, the best takes are the least thought-about beforehand--the ones where improvisational magic just jumps out ...
Intervista a Joshua Redman
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell'ultima apparizione pubblica newyorkese, la poetessa Beat Diane di Prima, alla domanda “Che tipo di jazz ascolta?" Ha risposto: “Di sicuro non ascolto il 99% di quello che nei negozzi di dischi di oggi compare sotto l'etichetta 'jazz' ma qualche contemporaneo c'è: Joshua Redman, per esempio." Cosa rende lo stile di Joshua Redman tale da insinuarsi ...
Akua Allrich: Washington Rising
by Franz A. Matzner
A native Washingtonian, vocalist Akua Allrich's music flows with a free, natural energy as engaging as her equally ingenuous personality. Although she graduated from Howard University's music department roughly a decade ago, Allrich has only recently thrown herself into forging a musical career. She originally opted not to pursue a singing career and turned instead to ...
Photographer Brian Rasic Interviewed at All About Jazz
Good photography can say more than a thousand words—it captures the moment and immortalizes it. Known for his brilliant photography, Serbian-born, London-based photographer Brian Branislav Rasić is known for producing some of rock's most memorable images. For more than three decades, Rasić has photographed the greatest artists in the music world and beyond. Name a few ...
Singer Akua Allrich Interviewed at All About Jazz
A native Washingtonian, vocalist Akua Allrich's music flows with a free, natural energy as engaging as her equally ingenuous personality. Although she graduated from Howard University's music department roughly a decade ago, Allrich has only recently thrown herself into forging a musical career. She originally opted not to pursue a singing career and turned instead to ...
Piano Legend Randy Weston Interviewed at All About Jazz
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...
Interview: Mick Barr
Over the past decade, guitarist and composer Mick Barr has released countless recordings under the names Ocrilim, Orthrelm, and Octis, and has worked with Krallice, The Flying Luttenbachers, Zach Hill, Weasel Walter and Sam Hillmer of Zs. His lightning fast guitar style and singular approach to the instrument goes unrivaled among his contemporaries, leading Ian MacKaye ...
Jazz Bassist Michael Formanek Is Back After a Dozen Years Between Albums
Several years ago, Michael Formanek was in the middle of a bass solo during a Bloodcount gig at the Knitting Factory's Old Office in Manhattan. Tim Berne, Chris Speed and Jim Black had all dropped out, leaving the bassist to carry on alone except for a young woman in the audience who was telling her friend ...
