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Ryan McGuire: Metal Reasoning
by Gordon Marshall
Bassist Ryan McGuire, a master of classical composition, uses this skill as a strategist in the metal underground. His band Ehnahre is quite unlike any other in that field, baffling committed rock fans with its advanced theory and unstructured time signatures. In another way, he throws off jazz and improvisation aficionados with his part ...
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith Profiled at AAJ
From creating his own notational system and an active role as educator to his Yo Miles! collaboration with guitarist Henry Kaiser and free improvisation that defies any kind of easy categorization, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith isn't slowing down a bit, despite approaching 70. AAJ Contributor Lyn Horton spoke with the intrepid Smith about his approach to ...
Fabrizio Savino: Stampo metropolitano
by AAJ Italy Staff
Stilisticamente ispirato da John Scofield, dotato di ottima tecnica e capace di esprimere un linguaggio jazzistico fresco e seducente, Fabrizio Savino - che si è da poco messo in mostra con l'album autografo Metropolitan Prints - è uno dei migliori giovani in circolazione. Abbiamo intervistato il chitarrista di Bari (classe '81), il quale ci ha illustrato ...
Hal McKusick: Cross Section-Saxes
Hal McKusick was and remains a jazz musician's musician. Even in his earliest days in Boyd Raeburn's band in the mid-1940s, Hal's distinct sound on the alto saxophone was admired by bandmates Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie as well as contemporaries like Charlie Parker, Claude Thornhill and Quincy Jones. Hal's ability to navigate the ...
Bassists Anthony Jackson and Yiorgos Fakanas Interviewed at AAJ
It may come as a surprise to anyone wading through bass guitar giant Anthony Jackson's discography, which mind bogglingly totals over three thousand recordings, that he has never recorded a solo album. The legendary bassist--who has played with an astonishing variety of artists of the caliber of Chick Corea, Roberta Flack, the O'Jays, Buddy Rich, Paul ...
Guitarist Nels Cline Interviewed at AAJ
While joining alt-country group Wilco in 2004 has done a lot for Nels Cline's profile, it's his own work as a fearless, boundary-averse guitarist that's turned him into what Jazz Times has called “The World's Most Dangerous Guitarist." The guitarist's latest release with Nels Cline Singers, Initiate (Cryptogramophone, 2010), represents a number of first for his ...
Justin Kauflin's Transcendent Vision
Justin Kauflin's debut CD is a testament to his remarkable artistry, wisdom and faith By Tom Robotham Eight years ago, I attended a concert featuring the Governor's School Jazz Band under the direction of Jae Sinnett. I knew I was in for an enjoyable evening; over the preceding ...
Nels Cline: Of Singers and Sound
by Rex Butters
Mimi Melnick's Salons feature some of Los Angeles' best improvising musicians in the most intimate of settings--her home, at the top of a hillside overlooking the San Fernando Valley. This afternoon's trio tunes, and tests sound levels. Bass wizard and longtime UCLA professor Roberto Miranda banters with veteran drummer Bert Karl, while the group's lanky guitarist, ...
Ethan Iverson Interviews Gerald Early
When he's not playing piano with The Bad Plus, Ethan Iverson has developed a reputation for doing some interesting interviews with jazz musicians for his blog Do The Math, and he's just published a conversation with St. Louis' own Gerald Early, the Washington University professor who frequently writes and speaks about jazz, popular music and African-American ...
Avant-Jazzsters Claudia Quintet's Album Whimsically Extols the Wonders of Toast
Over the years, various musicians have gone out of their way to prove that jazz can have a sense of humor. The most obvious example is Horace Silver's 'Jazz Has a Sense of Humor.' And, of course, there was Slim and Slam with their playful mugging back in the old days when jazz was popular music. ...
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