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Mick Goodrick and Wolfgang Muthspiel: Musical Synthesis
by Matthew Warnock
When guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Mick Goodrick walked up to the stage on January 30th, 2008, they were not only preparing to record a live album for Muthspiel's Material Records label, they were celebrating a musical and personal relationship that stretches back more than two decades. First meeting at the New England Conservatory, where Muthspiel studied ...
Randy Weston Interview - "African Rhythms" - Autobiography
Randy Weston - Tribute to James Reese/Uhuru Afrika. This conversation is part of the book/dvd project “Under your skin" which includes discussions with Ahmad Jamal, Angelique Kidjo, Melissa Auf der Maur, Chuck ...
Interview: Lou Donaldson (Part 1)
Lou Donaldson helped invent two major jazz movements. In 1952, he led a Blue Note recording that became one of the earliest hard bop sessions. The date included Blue Mitchell, Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Art Blakey. Seven months later he recorded with trumpeter Clifford Brown. Then in 1957, Lou began recording a series of albums ...
Ernest "Ernie" Ranglin in Demand at 78
Ernest 'Ernie" Ranglin O.D, Jamaica's legendary guitarist who pioneered Jamaica's fertile reggae and ska scene of the late 1950s and early '60s and who's celebrated for his fluent and versatile guitar style, coupled with his arrangement skills is in constant demand at 78 (June 19. In recent years, Ernest Ranglin has gone back to ...
Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
In a career now entering its sixth decade, pianist Herbie Hancock has covered more ground than most. He was a key member of trumpet icon Miles Davis' heralded quintet of the 1960s, with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. He was a key part of the nascent fusion community in the late ...
Herbie Hancock: One World, One Music
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
The world today is in big trouble. We might think that we have learned our lesson and opted for togetherness--after all, centuries of wars, misunderstanding, miscommunication and misinterpretation have brought nothing of value to the human race. Today we are told to frown upon our neighbors across the border; yesterday, neighbors from all over the world ...
Marco Cappelli: sulle corde dell'improvvisazione
by AAJ Italy Staff
Marco Cappelli è senza dubbio uno di quei personaggi da tenere sott'occhio e nell'orecchio per quanti si interessano di improvvisazione, musica radicale e musica classica contemporanea. Emancipatosi presto dai suoi pur ottimi studi accademici (S. Cecilia di Roma e Musik Akademie di Basilea con Oscar Ghiglia), Cappelli ha seguito l'iter classico dell'improviser tout court: tantissimo lavoro, ...
Jazz Pianist Aaron Parks is Back on the Farm -- The James Farm
When exactly the jazz pianist Aaron Parks became a prodigy is unclear, although he fit the description by the time he enrolled, at age 14, in the University of Washington to study music. Now 26, what Parks remembers more clearly is the day, about four years later, that it seemed his time was up, when someone ...
Jambase Questionnaire: Reed Mathis
Welcome back to JamBase's baker's dozen of probing, wide-ranging questions to the bright lights in the jam scene (and beyond). Last time we heard from Keller Williams and upcoming installments will include The Black Seeds, Scott Metzger, Plants and Animals and more! Few would argue with you if you said Reed Mathis is one of the ...
The Truth About Joe Maini
If you're a careful reader of West Coast jazz-album liner notes, you've likely come across Joe Maini's name. The alto saxophonist is rather obscure today, but back in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was one of Los Angeles' busiest and most distinctive studio musicians, sitting next to Charlie Parker in Gene Roland's Band That Never ...
