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Kora and Oud Explorer Kane Mathis Interviewed at All About Jazz
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 ...
Insegnando s’impara: intervista a Danilo Rea
by AAJ Italy Staff
Danilo Rea, malgrado abbia già esplorato gran parte dell'universo musicale, ha una voglia inesauribile di imparare, conoscere e spingersi in territori sconosciuti. Lo incontriamo prima di un concerto con l'amico Paolo Damiani; ci parla - oltre che dei suoi progetti attuali e nell'imminente futuro - dell'importanza di sapersi fermare, delle possibilità del piano-duo e del suo ...
Erica Mou e il "suo" jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Folk, rock, canzone d'autore. Ma il jazz è dietro l'angolo. Giovanissima (classe 1990) ma padrona di uno stile e di una personalità musicale riconoscibili come raramente è capitato di trovare, Erica Mou negli ultimi tre anni ha fatto incetta di premi e riconoscimenti aggiundicandosi il Liri Festival, il concorso Canzone Italiana d'Autore di Isernia, il Garofano ...
Kit Downes: You Have to Be What You Are
by Bruce Lindsay
Kit Downes' career as a jazz musician has, indeed, taken off in a very short time. He's still in his mid-20s, but such is his talent and appetite for music that Downes has become one of the most sought-after keyboardist in Britain, and he's a key presence in a series of cutting-edge bands, with The Golden ...
Mercury Prize-Nominated Pianist Kit Downes Interviewed at All About Jazz
Kit Downes' career as a jazz musician has, indeed, taken off in a very short time. He's still in his mid-20s, but such is his talent and appetite for music that Downes has become one of the most sought-after keyboardist in Britain, and he's a key presence in a series of cutting-edge bands, with The Golden ...
Royce Campbell: Playing Pretty
As a jazz guitarist, it's not easy to play pretty. You have to worship harmony, you have to love the sound of the instrument, and you have to want to seduce audiences. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, guitarists like Barry Galbraith, Jimmy Raney, Chuck Wayne, Mundell Lowe, Wes Montgomery and others understood the conversational quality ...
"The Mystery is Gone and Artists Just Start Looking Like Normal People That Aren't so Special," Says Kevin Breuner of CD Baby. Interview Part Two.
In the second segment of my interview with Kevin Breuner, who is the Marketing Project Manager at CD Baby and host of the DIY Musician Podcast, we talk about the singular model of success that the record industry operated under, why musicians need to think of themselves as entrepreneurs, and The Great Reset occurring in the ...
An Interview with Buke and Gass, Part 1
Finding a unique sound is one of the greatest challenges musicians face. And the Brooklyn-based duo Buke and Gass, (pronounced “byuke" and “gace") comprised of Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, took a real ground-up approach in this endeavor—they created new instruments. Dyer, a veteran guitarist, plays a modified baritone ukulele (Buke) and Sanchez, a professional instrument-maker ...
Hilary Kole: Versatile, Sweet and Jazzy
by R.J. DeLuke
When Hilary Kole sings, she can become one of the ideal subjects for the “what is jazz singing" discussion that has gone on for decades. She sings clear and cleanly, with a sure tone and an attractive sound. She's done cabaret and her voice is perfectly suited for it. But she sings with small jazz groups ...
