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La non linearità dell'ElectroAcoustic Silence: Intervista a Mirio Cosottini e Alessio Pisani
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'uscita di Flatime impone una pausa di riflessione con gli animatori dell'EA Silence e di GRIM [Gruppo di Ricerca e Improvvisazione Musicale], il trombonista Mirio Cosottini e il fagottista Alessio Pisani. In questa intervista i due musicisti sviluppano certe riflessioni contenute in alcuni articoli di Cosottini apparsi negli ultimi anni - tra i quali in particolare ...
Interview: Clark Terry (Part 1)
Clark Terry is one of the most prolific living jazz musicians, having appeared on a staggering 905 known recording sessions. On trumpet, he probably is the most recorded in history. To give you a sense of how many sessions 905 is, Ernie Royal appeared on 661, Louis Armstrong on 629 sessions, Harry “Sweets" Edison on 563, ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 3)
Pianist Eddie Palmieri took shifted his direction in the nineties, building upon the sound that he'd spent his career creating and pushing it in a jazz direction. Inspired by his brother Charlie, a busy pianist in New York's Latin music scene, Palmieri immersed himself in the Latin dance music world as a child. The draw of ...
A Tale of Two CTIs (Part 2)
Yesterday I posted about Sony's upcoming four-CD box set of remastered CTI tracks and the 20 CTI albums from King (Japan) newly remastered by original producer Creed Taylor and engineer Rudy Van Gelder. As I noted yesterday, there's really no comparison between the two different efforts: The King releases are way more spectacular on every level. ...
"Free Music is Always Going to Win," Says Lee Parsons, CEO of Ditto Music; Interview Part 1
Recently, I spoke with Lee Parsons, who is currently the CEO of Ditto Music. As of midsummer, they were distributing around 12,000 artists online and had 7 UK top 40 singles with unsigned artists. In this interview Parsons talks about the record industry's attitudes toward technology, why labels have trouble seeing value in disrupts their core-business ...
Bassist Dominic Duval Interviewed at All About Jazz
Bassist Dominic Duval is a mystery to many—even to those interested in free music. Seemingly emerging out of nowhere in the mid-1990s, over the course of 15 years he has built a formidable discography, firmly establishing him as one of the most original and prolific bassists alive today. His career is well-documented on more than one ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 2)
The first steps into a career as a bandleader offers a musician a choice—should they follow in the footsteps of their mentors or forge their own path? Retracing the steps of a teacher always serves as the safe route for a new bandleader. They can draw upon what they know, structure their work around defined models, ...
A Tale of Two CTI's (Part 1)
Thirty-two years ago, Creed Taylor lost control of his CTI record label. Overly ambitious international expansion plans in the late 1970s put enormous strain on CTI's revenue. A protracted legal battle with Warner Brothers over guitarist George Benson, a CTI artist, didn't help. [Photo of Creed Taylor in the 1970s by Chuck Stewart] To sustain the ...
Stefano Benini: tutti i colori del flauto jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo l'apporto pionieristico di Gino Marinacci, il flauto jazz in Italia ha stabilito un proprio status grazie a Nicola Stilo e Stefano Benini. In particolare quest'ultimo aggiunge all'attività artistica e didattica, quella di studioso del flauto jazz e della sua storia. Di recente ha pubblicato il volume Il flauto jazz - La storia, i protagonisti, il ...
Nat Hentoff on Dizzy Gillespie
"In the 1980s, there was to be a concert at Lincoln Center honoring [trumpeter] Dizzy Gillespie. He and a big band were, of course, to be at the center of the celebration. A few days before, I went to a rehearsal. Everyone was there except Dizzy. [Photo of Dizzy Gillespie in 1963] “No music was played. ...
