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Jambase Questionnaire: Jeff Coffin
Welcome to the second installment of JamBase's new weekly feature where we put a baker's dozen of probing, wide-ranging questions to the bright lights in the jam scene and beyond in order to expose juicy tidbits about their musical minds. If you missed it, the series began last week with Rob Barraco of Dark Star Orchestra. ...
Under Your Skin Interviews: Antipop Consortium & JG Thirlwell
Antipop Consortium interview JG Thirlwell / Foetus interview This interview is part of the book project under your skin which includes Interviews with: Goran Bregovic, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - ...
April 16, 1943: Setting the Stage for World's First Acid Trip
1943: Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the psychedelic properties of LSD. Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the stimulating effects on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. Three days later he ingested 250 micrograms of LSD, ...
April 15, 1452: It's the Renaissance, Man!
1452: Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest multitalented artists in our history, is born in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. Painter, sculptor, anatomist, architect, engineer, geologist: The labels don't even begin to describe him. Da Vinci's influence is so diverse that few haven't heard of him or his work -- the paintings of Mona ...
A Jazz Pianist Who Has Honed His Style While Hiding in Plain Sight
Sam Yahel played his own song “Truth and Beauty" around the middle of his early set on Tuesday night at the Village Vanguard. In the past hes recorded it on Hammond organ, in a different group, with saxophone and drums. Here he was playing it on the piano, with the bassist Matt Penman and the drummer ...
Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 4)
As Nancy Wilson's visibility and popularity grew in the early 1960s, so did her workload. In the days before scandals were built into marketing plans and stadium concerts provided artists with instant mass exposure, pop singers had to work tirelessly in hotel supper clubs and recording studios. They also hoped their singles would win AM-radio airplay ...
Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 3)
No other jazz-pop singer is as fluent in post-War American music as Nancy Wilson. She has always understood that a Tin Pan Alley standard requires a different approach and attitude than a jazz standard and that Broadway showstoppers have a different sound than a pop, rock or soul hit. Remarkably, Nancy approaches each genre with a ...
Mulatu Astatke: The Man and His Influence
Mulatu Astatke is a musical titan, in the same league as the likes of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, yet he was first recognized to most people when The Paris-based world music record label, Buda Musique devoted the entire 4th installment of their respected series, Ethiopiques, to his compositions in 1998. Astatke was born in ...
Jazz Vocalist Jose James Talks Inspiration, Flying Lotus, and Tonight's Zanzibar Gig
With the genre perennially accused of atrophy, it's little surprise that precocious vocalist and “Jazz Times" darling Jose James has been hailed as a so-called “savior of jazz." But the hype surrounding the Minneapolis-bred and Brooklyn-based crooner is well deserved, with his smoky, golden-throated grooves among the most dynamic to emerge from the tradition in recent ...
Debora Petrina
by AAJ Italy Staff
Debora Petrina è un fiume in piena. Bastano una frase, un accenno, una piccola sollecitazione a scatenare tempeste di parole e di pensieri. Ma non poteva essere diversamente visto che con le parole e i pensieri Petrina ci gioca continuamente, ed ogni sua esibizione trasuda di inesauribile vitalità. E allora tra ricordi affettuosi, viaggi oltreoceano resi ...
