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Drummer Paul F. Murphy Interviewed at AAJ
Legendary drummer Paul F. Murphy has been involved with the high end of improvised music since the mid-1970s in San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the avant-garde of the '70s, '80s and '90s as a 12-year member of alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons' band and a leader of several of his own groups, including Trio ...
Paul F. Murphy: Playing Universally
by Dominic Fragman
Legendary drummer Paul F. Murphy has been involved with the high end of improvised music since the mid-1970s in San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the avant-garde of the '70s, '80s and '90s as a 12-year member of alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons' band and a leader of several of his own groups, including Trio ...
Sergio Di Gennaro: orecchie ben aperte
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il pianista torinese Sergio Di Gennaro è uno che non molla mai, anzi se è possibile rilancia. Lo abbiamo intervistato dopo la pubblicazione, per il mercato giapponese, del suo All'improvviso, album registrato di getto un paio di anni fa, poco prima di una sosta forzata dovuta a un'operazione alla mano. Compositore e interprete dalla stoffa pregiata, ...
At 30, Princeton Record Exchange is Still Groovy
By Scott Morgan It is Wednesday, in the middle of a day in the middle of an unremarkable week, and there are at least 40 people flipping through records or reading the spines of CDs along the walls of the Princeton Record Exchange. The store will draw nearly 800 people before closing this night and this ...
Interview: Herb Geller (Part 2)
From his earliest small-group recording session with trumpeter Tony Fruscella in February 1952, Herb Geller's sound on the alto saxophone was distinct and vibrant. There was enormous power, spidery speed, seamless ideas and a soaring tone that immediately commanded attention. Though he would be thought of as a West Coast musician in the years to follow, ...
Interview: Herb Geller (Part 1)
Herb Geller is something of a mystery to many jazz fans. For one, the alto saxophonist who recorded steadily on the West Coast in the 1950s has lived in Germany since 1962, returning to the U.S. only sporadically to perform. For another, Herb rarely grants interviews, preferring to maintain his privacy while teaching and touring in ...
Multi-Reedist Steve Norton Interviewed at AAJ
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as well as ...
Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond
by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
A Tokyo Start, but Most at Home on 125th Street
Tommy Tomita walked past the red awning, down three concrete stairs, opened a gray door covered in duct tape and entered the jazz dive. Closely followed by five Japanese tourists, Mr. Tomita marched through the narrow passageway and sat at the head of two tables next to the bandstand. His entourage sat, too. The tables, at ...
Lennie Niehaus Said It
"Jimmy Giuffre used to play mostly in the lower register on the clarinet and rarely went above the break--the end of the first register. We used to kid him by saying, 'When are you going to play above the break?,' which is a big step when you're learning the clarinet. Jimmy laughed and said, 'I'm working ...
