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Sheryl Bailey: Homecoming
by Matthew Warnock
Sheryl Bailey has been rising to the top of the jazz guitar world ever since she burst onto the national scene by taking third place in the 1996 Thelonious Monk Guitar Competition. Following her top three finish in the competition, and graduating from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Bailey has released five albums ...
Enzo Favata, artista e agitatore culturale
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sassofonista e clarinettista, compositore, autore di progetti originali tra jazz e musica tradizionale della sua terra, la Sardegna, Enzo Favata è, da quasi dieci anni, anche direttore artistico di un fortunato festival, Musica sulle Bocche, che si svolge a Santa Teresa di Gallura, nel nord della sua isola. Lo avevamo sentito nell'ormai lontano 2002, ma nel ...
Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 3)
Between 1945 and 1972, only about a dozen groups changed the sound of jazz. In almost all cases, these highly influential ensembles introduced a completely new jazz style through innovative composition and instrument configuration. One of those groups was the Chico Hamilton Quintet, which in 1955 brought a new level of sophistication to jazz. Chico's vision ...
Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 2)
Like many aspiring musicians in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Buddy Collette picked up the clarinet and never looked back. During the Depression and into the 1940s, music was the only way out of the city's dense-packed black neighborhoods. But in the very late 1940s, with the rapid rise of television and expansion of the movie ...
Bass Icon Eddie Gomez Interviewed at AAJ
Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and ...
Eddie Gomez: The Playing is Free
by Donald Elfman
Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and ...
Hank Alone
In The New York Times “City Room" blog, Corey Kilgannon and Andy Newman have a strange, poignant followup to the news of Hank Jones's death. No one who knew Hank will be surprised at the selflessness it portrays or be unmoved by its tale of loneliness. He stayed active till the very end, collecting a Grammy ...
Violinist Katt Hernandez Interviewed at AAJ
Katt Hernandez plays violin with a hand and eye versed in the vagaries of natural sound. A student of microtonal music, she is also steeped in European folk traditions, and skilled in classical forms of improvisation. While her work goes in many directions, it stays sharp and swift and supple. She is equally adept in all ...
Katt Hernandez: Spiral Passes
by Gordon Marshall
Katt Hernandez plays violin with a hand and eye versed in the vagaries of natural sound. A student of microtonal music, she is also steeped in European folk traditions, and skilled in classical forms of improvisation. While her work goes in many directions, it stays sharp and swift and supple. She is equally adept ...
Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 1)
Buddy Collette is famous for a bunch of things: The reed and woodwind player helped develop West Coast chamber jazz in the mid-1950s. He was one of first black musicians to work steadily in the Los Angeles studios and the first to perform on television. Buddy recorded playing upward of 10 instruments and appeared on more ...
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