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Latin Jazz Conversations: Danilo Perez (Part 5)
Pianist Danilo Pérez has spent his life making a difference in a variety of ways that have touched countless people around the world. As a performer, Pérez has applied enthusiastic creativity and smart musicality consistently, raising the artistic bar wherever he performs. From his younger days performing on Panama's lively music scene to later Stateside gigs ...
Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed
Ten years ago the Bad Plus came together in a warm rush of camaraderie and with a clear grasp of novelty. Here was a jazz piano trio with the heart and gall of a stadium rock band, grappling wryly but directly with anthemic covers and its own scarcely less anthemic originals. The group was brash and ...
Legendary Cuban Pianist Chucho Valdes Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
For his first album in seven years, Chuco Valdés returns to the group format, expanding his longstanding quartet to an even more powerful septet. The legendary Cuban pianist and founding member of Irakere has been touring the world in support of Chucho's Steps (World Village, 2010), and will welcome Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz ...
Bassist/Vocalist Esperanza Spalding Interviewed at All About Jazz
Fans of classical music and jazz have argued about music for years. If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Duke Ellington had ever met, they may have looked at each other in awe—right before debating about bars and notes and solos ... and, perhaps, the music would have been flowing just as easy as words. Esperanza Spalding's Chamber ...
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 ...
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