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The Kindie Music Scene: Performing Music for Kids
Recently, I spoke with Debbie Cavalier, who is a children's entertainer and vocalist for Debbie and Friends, a kindie music group. She's also Dean of Continuing Education and Chief Academic Officer at Berklee College of Music. Joining Cavalier in this interview is Beth Blenz-Clucas. She's the founder of Sugarmountain PR, a firm that specializes in raising ...
Happy Birthday Matthew Shipp.
Matthew meets his half decade today in his prime and fully immersed in Dionysian musings shaped by Apollonian sensibilities. It's quite a feat. It turns on his use of the most basic primal song forms, the first ones most people here were exposed to... Frere Jacques, etc. The melody kernel that the “The New Fact" grows ...
Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...
Andrea Rossi Andrea
by AAJ Italy Staff
Artista visivo (pittore, scultore, fotografo, performer) e musicista (bassista elettrico, compositore), perfezionatosi in conservatorio, al Berklee College di Boston e alla Manhattan School di New York, laureato al DAMS di Bologna, Andrea Rossi Andrea, vicentino, esordisce “sul campo" nel 1985, peraltro con già alle spalle diversi anni di elaborazione di opere caratterizzate dall'utilizzo della cosiddetta “antenna ...
Nik Bartsch: Rhythmically Dancing Around Fugato Fires
by Ian Patterson
Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók once said, “In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution." Pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch would be the first to recognize that he is no revolutionary, as his aesthetic vision draws inspiration from multiple sources, ranging from 20th century classical ...
Bev Thorne on Brubeck East
Today is Dave Brubeck's 90th birthday. At 5 p.m. (EST), Turner Classic Movies will broadcast In His Own Sweet Way, a new documentary on Dave's life and music directed by Bruce Ricker and produced by Clint Eastwood. It is a valentine to the pianist and composer whose music continues to wow listeners. [Photo of Dave Brubeck ...
Jelli Interview: Help Indie Artists Get Radio Airplay
This week Apple made Jelli a “Featured" app in the App Store. Recently, I spoke with Mike Dougherty, who is CEO of Jelli, a crowdsourced and social radio service. In this interview, Dougherty talks about how his company is teaming up with traditional radio and the ways in which Jelli has enabled indie artists to get ...
VH1: Still Saving the Music, 13 Years Later
At the end of the day, what we're all trying to do is save the music. To get a better idea about how optimistic we should be about its future, I decided to talk with Paul Cothran. He's Executive Director of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. I thought it would be interesting to speak with ...
Interview I: Mario Pavone
On December 12, bassist and composer Mario Pavone will be in Philadelphia with Orange Double Tenor. The sextet, featuring saxophonists Tony Malaby and Marty Ehrlich, trumpeter Dave Ballou, pianist Peter Madsen and drummer Gerald Cleaver, will perform Pavone’s new work, Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po. Commissioned by Chamber Music America’s 2009 Jazz Works, and released last month ...
Oscar Peterson and Toni Harper
Oscar Peterson accompanied a number of leading jazz singers as the house pianist at Norman Granz's Verve label in the '50s. But one of the finest albums he made in this capacity was for a singer who today is largely unknown. The album was Toni: Toni Harper Sings, and it's positively splendid. Half the album was ...
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