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Robert Hunter Q&A on Collaboration with Jim Lauderdale
TWO OF THE FINEST SONGWRITERS ALIVE WEAVE MUSIC TOGETHER Jim Lauderdale Two-time Grammy Award winner, singer, songwriter and Americana music icon Jim Lauderdale will release his new album Patchwork River on May 11 through Thirty Tigers. He co-wrote the album with longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, whom Lauderdale has praised as “one of the greatest ...
Guitarist Chuck Anderson Interviewed at AAJ
Chuck Anderson's guitar artistry is a cut above the jazz standard. The quality of his execution is so fine that on first hearing, it is literally stunning. His recent CD, Freefall (Dreambox Media, 2010) consists of musical gems--all-original compositions, woven into a tapestry worthy of a master classical guitarist. Yet it is all straight-ahead mainstream jazz ...
Chuck Anderson: Guitar Reemergence
by Victor L. Schermer
Chuck Anderson's guitar artistry is a cut above the jazz standard. The quality of his execution is so fine that on first hearing, it is literally stunning. His recent CD, Freefall (Dreambox Media, 2010) consists of musical gems--all-original compositions, woven into a tapestry worthy of a master classical guitarist. Yet it is all straight-ahead mainstream jazz ...
Terence Blanchard Talks About Miles Davis
With more than 29 albums to his credit, including Choices, released in August, Terence Blanchard has established himself as one of the most influential jazz musicians and film score composers of his generation. The greatest album, ever? Miles Davis Porgy and Bess. It symbolizes everything that is great about this country and what it means to ...
Gerald Clayton Supposes Tradition and Innovation Can Peacefully Exist
At one-forth the age of jazz, New York based jazz pianist Gerald Clayton stakes his claim in the history and the present of jazz. “Tradition and innovation can peacefully exist", supposes the son of famous bassist John Clayton. However, his biography states, 'with Gerald behind the piano this coexistence anything but peaceful.' 'His ...
Guitarist Steve Howe Interviewed at AAJ
Steve Howe has been a major figure in contemporary music for over 40 years. He first came to international prominence with Yes; he's a key figure in rock supergroup Asia; and his distinctive guitar style makes him one of the most recognizable players on the scene. His love of jazz is less well-known but it has ...
Steve Howe: Great Guitars and Great Guitarists
by Bruce Lindsay
Steve Howe has been a major figure in contemporary music for over 40 years. He first came to international prominence with Yes; he's a key figure in rock supergroup Asia; and his distinctive guitar style makes him one of the most recognizable players on the scene. His love of jazz is less well-known but it has ...
Girotto About Towner
by AAJ Italy Staff
Javier Girotto, sassofonista argentino da tempo residente a Roma, è un personaggio ben noto sulla scena jazzistica nazionale (e in particolare della capitale), grazie soprattutto ai nove album incisi tra il 1994 e il 2006 con gli Aires Tango. La sua musica, intrisa di sapori legati alla sua terra di origine è un riuscito connubio di ...
Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 5)
In 1966, a shift began in Nancy Wilson's choices for Capitol. Like many pop-jazz artists who were striving to stay current in a market overrun by young radio-listening record-buyers, Nancy began to include rock and soul hits of the day. But unlike most pop artists who awkwardly tried to seem with it, Nancy was naturally comfortable ...
George Wettling's Righteous Rage
The man in the picture looks serious, intent, but hardly dangerous. He is George Wettling known for his wonderful drumming with Eddie Condon, Max Kaminsky, Jimmy McPartland, Artie Shaw, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Ruby Braff, Pee Wee Russell, Art Hodes, and many others. In my recent, quite amiable discussion of Moldy Figs and Mossy ...
