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Guitarist Barry Cleveland Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
The personal is the political for guitarist and composer Barry Cleveland. That perspective is evident on Hologramatron (MoonJune, 2010), his new album featuring songs that serve as a response to the socio-political and religious narratives woven by the voices dominating today's 24-hour news cycles. Cleveland is unafraid of telling it exactly as he sees it, with ...
Drummer Ranjit Barot Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
Ranjit Barot is a well-known figure in India's music industry, where for many years he has written film scores, produced Indie pop, and, more recently, composed and directed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi. Barot, who spent the first 12 years of his life ...
Interview: Albert Maysles (Part 1)
Forty years ago on December 5, Albert Maysles' Gimme Shelter was released. The searing documentary about the last leg of the Rolling Stones 1969 tour culminated with the group's concert appearance at the Altamont Speedway near San Francisco. Today, in my Wall Street Journal article here, Albert, 83, talks with me about the film that accidentally ...
A Look at Mingus the Composer
Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1997) is a fascinating look at the life and legacy of bassist Charles Mingus. It combines concert footage, interviews with fellow musicians and family, and bits of a noirish documentary of Mingus made in the late 1960s. It was directed by Don McGlynn and co-produced by the composer's widow, Sue ...
Jay Phelps: Swing Is The New Avant-Garde
by Bruce Lindsay
At the age of 28, trumpeter Jay Phelps already has a broad range of musical experiences under his belt, including co-founding the award-winning jazz group Empirical. Releasing his debut album as a leader, Jay Walkin' (Specific Records, 2010), seems like a natural next step. But Phelps is clearly not a man to be rushed. The album ...
Interview with Indie Ambassador Founder Ben Maitland-Lewis
Over the past couple of years, as digital services and tools for musicians have proliferated, the search for the perfect tool has given way to a search for the perfect toolkit. As companies jockey to provide the perfect brand of analytics data or social media or digital distribution, everybody from private platforms (Indaba) to unions (the ...
Interview: Phil Ramone (Part 5)
Phil Ramone is known among musicians for his artistic sensibility, his confidence and his cool. When tension runs high at recording sessionseither because musicians can't seem to pull the music together or time is running outPhil is always the deep voice of reason. His take-charge style and patient tone usually puts everyone at ease and back ...
The Doobie Brothers: A Brighter Day
By Dennis Cook When most bands hit their 40th anniversary they make a big deal about it, issuing grand statements, box sets and generally making sure folks take note. Not so with The Doobie Brothers, who hit the four decade mark this year and have chosen to focus on their first new studio album in 10 ...
Michael Laskow of Taxi: Marketing + Entrepreneurial Skills = Music Business Success
On Music Think Tank, Ariel Hyatt expresses her passion about helping the next generation who want to make it in the music business understand what it takes to achieve that dream. She talks about the Taxi Road Rally and how artists work together to help each other get ahead. Earlier, she conducted an in-depth interview with ...
Helen Merrill: Dream of You
One of the finest jazz vocal albums of the 1950s is Helen Merrill's Dream of You. Recorded over the course of three days in July 1956 for EmArcy, the session paired Helen with arranger Gil Evans nearly a year before his first majestic session with trumpeter Miles Davis. Helen's Dream of You isn't a typical jazz-vocal ...


