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Multi-Reedist Steve Norton Interviewed at AAJ
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as well as ...
Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond
by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
A Tokyo Start, but Most at Home on 125th Street
Tommy Tomita walked past the red awning, down three concrete stairs, opened a gray door covered in duct tape and entered the jazz dive. Closely followed by five Japanese tourists, Mr. Tomita marched through the narrow passageway and sat at the head of two tables next to the bandstand. His entourage sat, too. The tables, at ...
Lennie Niehaus Said It
"Jimmy Giuffre used to play mostly in the lower register on the clarinet and rarely went above the break--the end of the first register. We used to kid him by saying, 'When are you going to play above the break?,' which is a big step when you're learning the clarinet. Jimmy laughed and said, 'I'm working ...
Sharon Jones from Jameson to Fela Kuti, Preshow Rites of a Soul Band
SHARON JONES is, as the saying goes, the real deal. A 5-foot-1 vocal powerhouse who has been nicknamed the Queen of Funk, Ms. Jones, 53, grew up singing at home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in church and in local bands. But professional success in music eluded her; for a time she worked as a prison guard at ...
Duke Pearson's Big Band: 1967
The story of jazz is filled with behind-the-scenes guys who contributed mightily to the music but are little known today. One of these invisible hands was Duke Pearson. In addition to being a fine composer, hard bop pianist and Blue Note record producer, Pearson briefly led a compelling big band in the late 1960s. Top musicians ...
Neil Cowley: A Rock and Roll Take on Jazz
by Bruce Lindsay
It's not an observation based on hard evidence, but the jazz world seems to be more awash with piano trios than it has been for many years. Whether it's a whim of fashion, a response to economic recession, a reaction to the over-digitization of music technology, or something else entirely, is far from clear. But there ...
Pianist Neil Cowley Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
It's not an observation based on hard evidence, but the jazz world seems to be more awash with piano trios than it has been for many years. Whether it's a whim of fashion, a response to economic recession, a reaction to the over-digitization of music technology, or something else entirely, is far from clear. But there ...
Christian McBride: Dritto al cuore
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sono anni che apprezziamo e ammiriamo la versatilità di Christian McBride, ed è difficile credere che questo straordinario contrabbassista, nato a Philadelphia, abbia solo 37 anni. Padroneggia uno strumento che per molti è la pura essenza del Jazz, per quel senso di unità e controllo che infonde. Quel che questo (ormai ex-) allievo della Juillard School ...
Keyboardist Don Preston Interviewed About the Don and Bunk Show at AAJ
Just a few miles east of the Whisky a Go Go, where they stunned the world over 40 years ago with the classic Mothers of Invention, keyboardist Don Preston and saxophonist Bunk Gardner returned to Sunset Blvd. as The Don and Bunk Show, reviving their duo homage to the early music of Frank Zappa. Dolores Peterson ...
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