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Un apolide con solide radici nei boschi sloveni
by AAJ Italy Staff
Batterista, percussionista, compositore, bandleader, autore di progetti che uniscono musica e poesia, Zlatko Kaucic è nato nel 1953 a Postumia, nell'allora Jugoslavia, ma ha girato a lungo per l'Europa prima di riapprodare nella sua Slovenia. Oggi vive a trenta metri dal confine italiano, vicino a Gorizia, una terra ricca di musicisti e di proposte originali. Nei ...
Bassist Yuri Goloubev Interviewed at AAJ
After a highly successful career in one of the world's greatest classical ensembles, the Moscow Soloists, Russian double-bassist Yuri Goloubev decided to turn his back entirely on this world to heed another calling: jazz. Responding to his lifelong passion, Goloubev established himself in Milan, Italy, where in the past five years he has recorded an impressive ...
Yuri Goloubev: Of Chocolate Cake & Other Simple Metaphors
by Ian Patterson
After a highly successful career in one of the world's greatest classical ensembles, the Moscow Soloists, Russian double-bassist Yuri Goloubev decided to turn his back entirely on this world to heed another calling: jazz.Responding to his lifelong passion, Goloubev established himself in Milan, Italy, where in the past five years he has ...
Interview: Frank D'Rone (Part 3)
Not all singers who came up in the 1950s became Tony Bennett or Sarah Vaughan. Some were popular only in their local towns. Some lacked talent or didn't have enough charisma. Some fell in with lousy record labels or the wrong crowd. Some were short on persistence or endurance. Others just gave up and went into ...
Have You Heard Linda Oh?
Like most who've heard the young Aussie bassist Linda Oh, my starting point was hearing her fresh debut recording “Entry“. Besides the fact that she just kind of materialized on the scene untethered to advance hype, the record was first of all curious because Ms. Oh took the hang-fly route and played her music with a ...
Interview: Frank D'Rone (Part 2)
Back the 1950s, jazz duos, trios and quartets toured all over the country. There was plenty of work to go around. Thousands of small clubs and bars favored live jazz and pop, which attracted patrons, kept them there longer buying drinks. The goal for an artist was to land an extended stay at a club in ...
Interview: Frank D'Rone (Part 1)
Back in the late 1970s, I was hunting for a Stan Kenton LP and wound up at Dayton's, a rare jazz LP store on Broadway in New York's Greenwich Village. As I made my way over to the Kenton bin, a record by a male singer was playing over the store's speakers. The song was Why ...
Le fonti creative di Ernesto Rodrigues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ernesto Rodrigues (1959) è senza dubbio uno dei più interessanti violinisti della scena sperimentale ed elettronica portoghese. Insieme al figlio violoncellista Guilherme Rodrigues (1988) dà vita ad una delle collaborazioni famigliari più creative della musica europea [per credere, basta dare un'occhiata veloce al New Thing Nonet video (Youtube)]. Rodrigues “senior" è attivo oramai da molti decenni ...
Jazz Singer and Guitarist John Pizzarelli is Reminiscing in Time
By Tad Hendrickson Dealing with the songbook of Duke Ellington would seem to be the most daunting of tasks. Ellington was a tireless composer who wrote thousands of songs in his 50-year career, and his songbook is one of the thickest around, filled with dozens of jazz classics. It's an accomplishment that guitarist and singer John ...
Act Label Founder/Producer Siggi Loch Interviewed at AAJ
With a half-century in the music recording business, Siegfried Loch, known to friends and associates as Siggi, has had a huge impact on the jazz music scene in Europe. Jazz isn't the only thing he's been involved in as a producer over all those years, but having his own jazz label--ACT Music, based in Munich, Germany--was ...
