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Creators of "Chaography," a New Kind of Jazz Film, Interviewed at AAJ
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is hoping to start filming ...
Trombone Shorty Bursts onto National Scene
In 2010 alone, 24-year-old New Orleans singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and all-around musical powerhouse Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews has signed with Verve Forecast Records and performed on Good Morning America and ESPN's SportsCenter in the run-up to the Super Bowl. He has seen recordings he contributed to earn a Grammy award (Buckwheat Zydeco's “Lay Your Burden Down") and an ...
"Chaography": A New Kind of Jazz Film To Be Made
by R.J. DeLuke
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is ...
Intervista a Silvia Bolognesi
by AAJ Italy Staff
Silvia Bolognesi suona uno strumento ingombrante e austero, storicamente “maschile," come il contrabbasso, ma da buona toscana se ne fa un baffo delle convenzioni ed in poco tempo ne diventa una delle maggiori specialiste tanto da essere richiesta da alcuni dei massimi interpreti della musica improvvisata italiana e straniera (Butch Morris, Rob Brown, Enrico Rava, Tiziana ...
Weekend Extra: Desmond Speaks
After three years of keeping his alto saxophone in the closet, in 1974 Paul Desmond finally succumbed to the exhortations of the Canterino family and agreed for the first time in a quarter of a century to play a club date as leader. The Canterino's club, the Half Note, had moved from lower Manhattan to Midtown. ...
Bobby Shew on Buddy Rich (Part 3)
Bobby Shew turns up on the tastiest recordings. A long-time jazz trumpeter and studio musician, Bobby has a warm, solid tone and gracefully hits all the right notes with understated clarity and confidence. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bobby recorded extensively with the bands of Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin and Louie Bellson. More recently he has recorded ...
Bobby Shew on Buddy Rich (Part 2)
As big bands go, the orchestra Buddy Rich founded in 1966 holds a special place in the hearts of many jazz fans. The band had a quirky hipness and energy, mostly because Rich was early to dig the youth scene, Nehru jacket and all. The band was made up mostly of young musicians, and the book ...
Dark Star Orchestra: Life After Dead
By: Jarrod Dicker Dark Star Orchestra by Peter Wochniak “We are NOT the Grateful Dead," professes Dark Star Orchestra's rhythm guitarist and vocalist Rob Eaton. “I think the main misconception is that we strictly copy the Grateful Dead's music or somehow mimic their persona and none of that is true. We love this music, we live ...
Bobby Shew on Buddy Rich (Part 1)
In the spring of 1966, Timothy Leary praised the virtues of LSD, an H-bomb was lost at sea in Europe and Gemini 9's two-man crew began the first of its 47 orbits of Earth. And if these events weren't spacey enough, Buddy Rich, at age 48, decided to start a big band. Not a trendy rock ...
Latin Jazz Mainstay Portrays Cuba Orchestrally
Rebeca Maulen loves to mix it up musically. A sterling San Francisco pianist and composer who's been a central figure on the Latin jazz scene since the 1980s, Maulen writes music that merges sacred and secular Afro-Cuban sounds with flamenco, jazz harmony and French Impressionism. All those elements come together in “Suite Afro-Cubano," a four-movement work ...
