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Mary Lou, We Hardly Know Ya ...
The Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble will be paying tribute Saturday to Mary Lou Williams, possibly jazz's most overlooked genius, on the centennial of her birth.Maybe it was her gender, maybe it was the company she kept (she worked for Dorsey, Goodman, Ellington ... you name it, anyone with a decent band in the ...
Yo la Tengo: From Monk to the Mets
By: Ron Hart Yo La Tengo Yo La Tengo of Hoboken, NJ, formed 25 years ago when New York Rocker scribe and local soundman Ira Kaplan met artist Georgia Hubley, daughter of legendary Disney animator John Hubley, and the two bonded over records and the New York Mets. Since then, alongside longtime bassist James McNew, the ...
On Rob McConnell
Occasionally, a Rifftides reader sends a message compelling enough that it demands posting not as a comment but as a full-fledged item. In the blog's five years, there have been few. Jeff Sultanof's recent recollection of Gene Lees was one. A few days later, we have Peter Kountz's tribute to Rob McConnell. Dr. Kountz is head ...
Gene Lees on Waltz for Debby
Last week, while writing about the late a CD that Gene had sent me back in the 1990s: Yesterday I Heard the Rain: Gene Lees Sings Gene Lees, which he produced. The album features 12 songs--9 with lyrics by Gene. When I pulled out my copy last week, out tumbled a sheet of paper folded into ...
Artie Shaw, Three Ways
Artie Shaw has been gone since 2004 and he last played the clarinet in public around fifty years before that, so the people who heard him play must be diminishing day by day. But he remains an astonishing musician and a public figure capable of stirring up controversies. I offer three ways of looking at the King ...
Pianist Michele Giuliani Interviewed at AAJ
Pianist Michele Giuliani--born in Baritone--is one of the emerging talents of the Italian jazz scene. After years of constant experimentation--from progressive rock music to funk and jazz--the 34 year-old completed Roots (Zeitgeist, 2009), the sum total of all his musical experiences, named for the diversity of influences and cultures featured in Giuliani's music. AAJ Contributor Achille ...
Michele Giuliani: Widespread Roots
by Achille Brunazzi
Pianist Michele Giuliani--born in Baritone--is one of the emerging talents of the Italian jazz scene. After years of constant experimentation--from progressive rock music to funk and jazz--the 34 year-old completed Roots (Zeitgeist, 2009), the sum total of all his musical experiences, named for the diversity of influences and cultures featured in Giuliani's music. Giuliani ...
Intervista a Tord Gustavsen
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ogni nota nella sua musica è essenziale e indispensabile al tempo stesso, una continua ricerca del “minimo" come forma solida dell'arte musicale. Una ricerca melodica che fonde elementi del folk scandinavo a musiche etniche di derivazione africana e caraibica. Lui è Tord Gustavsen, pianista norvegese tra i più affermati e interessanti della scena jazz europea contemporanea. ...
Herb Geller on Bill Evans
Following my interview series last week with alto saxophonist Herb Geller, I was curious about Herb's interactions with bassist Scott Lafaro in the late 1950s and his flute playing with pianist Bill Evans in 1972. It turns out Herb was the one who first introduced LaFaro to Evans, that Herb began playing flute only after relocating ...
Composer/Reed Multi-Instrumentalist Frank Glover Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Intelligent and outspoken, Frank Glover began playing clarinet when he was eleven years old. On entering college, he trained for nearly two years at Indiana University before striking out on his own; upon the independent release of Politico in 2004, he was signed by Owl Studios and the album was re-released under that label in 2009. ...
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