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Newly produced interview with Dizzy Gillespie
Soulandjazz.com Presents: Talking Jazz with Ben Sidran Episode 2: Dizzy Gillespie Music Additions Remixed & Reproduced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Click here to listen The story: Back in the mid-80's on National Public Radio (NPR) in America, a show ran called Sidran On Record. Presented by Ben Sidran, a musician, author, lecturer and ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Eddie Palmieri (Part 1)
The lives of legendary Latin Jazz artists always recount themselves like a master class in the major events of music history. When these musicians experience each historical landmark, they simply seem like the ups and downs of daily life. Looking at these events in retrospect, we place the weight of history upon them, giving them significance ...
Happy 85th Birthday, George Wein!
As NEA Jazz Master George Wein prepares to celebrate his 85th birthday George Wein quietly with family and friends on Sunday, October 3, he reflects on the past, present and future, including jazz and folk festivals in New York and Newport, performances in Barcelona (Spain), San Juan (PR), New York, Newport, Monterey and San Francisco and ...
Matthew Charles Heulitt: Sonic Magician
by Ian Patterson
Guitarist/composer Matthew Charles Heulitt has been around for a while, gigging for over a decade in drumming master Zigaboo Modeliste's funk band. Heulitt is also a member of ex-Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden's band; it is therefore no surprise that he displays an acute rhythmic sense in his playing. In fact, Heulitt's ...
A Tribute to the McCoy Brothers (October 3, 2010)
In the Thirties, one of the great folk-blues-hot jazz bands was the Harlem Hamfats, who recorded a great many rocking sides for Decca's “race records" line. The band was sparked by the string playing of “Kansas Joe" (guitar) and “Papa Charlie" McCoy (mandolin) — who are buried in unmarked graves. Arlo Leach has organized a daylong ...
Violinist Christian Howes Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!
It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarist sand vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...
Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin
by Ian Patterson
It's not difficult to think of great blues artists--there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists--and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarists and vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...
Intervista a Gaetano Liguori
by AAJ Italy Staff
In questa intervista Gaetano Liguori ripercorre la storia, sua e di un'intera generazione di musicisti che ha tentato velleitariamente di cambiare il mondo in musica, dalla creazione di un circuito “alternativo" al rapporto con altre forme d'arte. All About Jazz Italia: La prima cosa che salta agli occhi scorrendo la tua biografia è la definizione di ...
"An Effort to Become the IMDB of Live Music." Part 2 of an Interview with Michelle You of Songkick
This is the second part of my interview with Michelle You, who is co-founder and Head of Product at Songkick; the live music database and concert alert system. In this segment, You talks the archival aspect of Songkick, how they've become the largest database of live music in the world, and the enornous opportunity before the ...
JJ Grey and Mofro: True Warhorses
By Dennis Cook Maybe it's pounding soul of “All," the slinky strut of “Diyo Dayo," the synth-dappled, switchback funk of “Hide & Seek" or perhaps the crack-your-heart-open tenderness of “King Hummingbird," but something gonna get you on JJ Grey & Mofro's new slab, Georgia Warhorse (released August 24 on Alligator Records). Grey and his shifting ensemble ...
