Results for "Interview"

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Smith!

December 9, 2010

Jimmy Smith is the acknowledged master of the Hammond B-3 organ. In fact, the B-3 is the only instrument in jazz on which you'd find so little disagreement about who was the greatest player. And Smith took up the instrument relatively late. Smith was born on this date in 1925 (although some members of his family ...

Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 1)

December 10, 2010

Our early years put a lot of pieces in place for us artistically, but they never cement our musical future into place. The sights and sounds of our childhood certainly stay with us, building an unconscious foundation for our future endeavors. They become a comfort zone and the measuring stick for all the music that we ...

Interview: Don Sebesky (Part 1)

December 10, 2010

Arranger Don Sebesky is among only a handful of musicians   today who toured and recorded with both Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson's big bands at the tail end of the '50s. Don also arranged Wes Montgomery's most popular recordings for Verve and A&M in the '60s, and in the '70s arranged and conducted many of CTI's ...

Daniel Lanois: The Blacker the Dub, the Sweeter the Juice

December 10, 2010

By Dennis Cook Infusing music with soul is no easy task. And we're not talking some stock R&B thing, this is soul in the archetypal sense—the invisible, overarching embodiment of things beyond the world we can see and taste. Soul in music is what makes it more than ditties meant to shift units and pass the ...

U.S. May Never See a Festival Market Like U.K. Has

December 10, 2010

This is part two of my interview with Andrew Dreskin, who is CEO of Ticketfly, an independent ticketing and social marketing platform. In this segment, Dreskin explains why the U.S. may not see a festival market like the one in Europe and how the economic recession has affected ticket sales. Hypebot: Will the U.S. live music ...

Jelli Interview: What Radio Democracy Leads To

December 7, 2010

Last week Apple made Jelli a “Featured" app in the App Store. This is part two of my interview segment with Mike Dougherty, who is CEO of Jelli, a crowdsourced and social radio service. In this interview, Dougherty talks about how Jelli could help radio revolutionize their approach to advertising and his aspirations for creating a ...

Interview II: Mario Pavone

December 7, 2010

Last week, Ars Nova Workshop shared the first half of our conversation with Mario Pavone, who will be in Philadelphia on December 12 with Orange Double Tenor. For the second part of our interview, we asked Mario to tell us more about the suite his sextet will perform, Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po. Here’s what he had ...

Brubeck at 90--It's Time In

December 8, 2010

Like many jazz fans who are now of a certain age, I cut my music teeth early on listening to Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck. Peterson's gone but Brubeck seems indefatigable. Today is his 90th birthday. And tonight, he'll celebrate with family by watching a new Bruce Ricker/Clint Eastwood documentary, Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet ...

Kahil El' Zabar's Ethnic feat: Nona Hendryx - interview

December 7, 2010

Jambase Questionnaire: Brian Haas

December 8, 2010

Welcome back to JamBase's baker's dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from The New Up. Odysseys are a tricky business. By nature, they are circuitous and fraught with sirens calling one towards the rocks and angry, jealous gods tossing stones in one's pathway. The long, winding road of Jacob ...