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A Bill Evans Addendum
Thanks to Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages for pointing the way to a revealing interview with Evans the year before he died. Ross Porter (pictured), then of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, talked with the pianist at his home and in his car as Evans was driving to a medical appointment. Evans is articulate ...
A 1977 Interview with Jaco Pastorius: The Florida Flash
By Neil Tesser (Downbeat, January 27, 1977) “There's a real rhythm in Florida," Jaco Pastorius says in a voice saturated in matter-of-fact. “Because of the ocean. There's something about the Caribbean Ocean, it's why all that music from down there sounds like that. I can't explain it, but I know what it is." He pauses to ...
Guitarist Matthew Charles Heulitt Interviewed at All About Jazz
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 ...
Marc Ribot Taps Into Lyricism for His Solo Guitar Soundtrack to Nonexistent Movies
There are few musicians that have worked in a wider and more creative catalog of material than Marc Ribot. As a sideman, the guitarist has backed singers including Tom Waits, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Richard Hell, Elvis Costello and Norah Jones, not to mention John Zorn and vast array of avant-garde jazz musicians. His own ...
Jazzista, ma non solo: intervista a Paolo Damiani
by AAJ Italy Staff
Docente di jazz presso il Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia di Roma, musicista, compositore, direttore d'orchestra, ma anche direttore artistico e produttore di eventi. Paolo Damiani ci ha parlato del nuovo progetto didattico per le scuole italiane portato avanti con Luigi Berlinguer, del suo modo di intendere la musica e della sua idea dell'essere jazzista. All About ...
Liberace, Las Vegas and Me
On Friday, at the crack of dawn, I was on a Delta flight from New York to Las Vegas. The Liberace Museum had just announced it was closing in October, and I was on assignment for the Wall Street Journal. Mind you, I have never been a fan of Liberace's music. I didn't dislike him when ...
Kane Mathis: Kora Meets Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the distinctive (usually) 21-stringed West African harp instrument that is the major instrument of the Mandinka people of Mali; the Malian equivalent of the Western keyboard. Mathis has studied the instrument since the age of twenty, making several trips to The Gambia to ...
"Track Your Favorite Bands and Never Miss Them Live." an Interview with Michelle You of Songkick
(Part 1 of 2) Recently, I spoke with Michelle You, who is cofounder and Head of Product at Songkick; the live music database and concert alert system. In this interview, You talks about the challenges of raising awareness about her company and it's services, how they're making it easier for people to keep up on your ...
An Interview with IMSTA President Ray Williams
This Saturday, September 25, the International Music Software Technology Association, or IMSTA, will hold its third annual IMSTA Festa at the School of Audio Engineering in New York. Whether it takes place in Tokyo, Berlin, or New York, each Festa gives the world's top audio software companies the chance to offer their wares, in some cases ...
Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends
by Joan A. Cararach
Chucho Valdés arrived at his All About Jazz interview confident: of his music and of Spain's victory in the South African FIFA World Cup. It was July 11th 2010, and for the first time in its history, Spain's national team had reached a World Cup final, in South Africa. A Cuban interested in football? “A lot ...
