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Interview: John Levy (Part 3)
When John Levy arrived in New York in 1944, the bassist couldn't believe his good fortune. As a member of the Stuff Smith Trio, John and his white bass stood out and there was plenty of work. The union-enforced recording ban had just ended, and many small labels were surfacing to capture small-group jazz. While playing ...
Chico Hamilton: Living the Beat
By: Ryan Dembinsky Are people born with rhythm? Chico Hamilton by Todd Boebel Sitting down at the kitchen table inside 88-year-old jazz legend Chico Hamilton's midtown Manhattan apartment, chewing the fat about jazz music and his storied career as a drummer and bandleader - a ...
Interview: John Levy (Part 2)
John Levy came late to the bass after high school in the mid-1930s. A teenage Milt Hinton agreed to teach him the basics, and John worked hard over the years that followed, practicing and playing locally in Chicago. Back in the days before bebop, the bass was the backbone of small swing groups, serving as time-keeper ...
Saxophonist Alonzo Holliday Interviewed At AAJ
Frank Turek's dream: he is in a smoky bar where jazz floats in the background. Coming up to sit down next to him is a hip, old cat who begins to tell him stories of playing sax in bands in the early '40s. He introduces himself as Alonzo Holliday. Back to waking life, in the '90s: ...
Alonzo Holliday: The Archaeology of Out-Bop
by Gordon Marshall
Frank Turek's dream: he is in a smoky bar where jazz floats in the background. Coming up to sit down next to him is a hip, old cat who begins to tell him stories of playing sax in bands in the early '40s. He introduces himself as Alonzo Holliday. Back to waking life, in the '90s: ...
Interview: John Levy (Part 1)
Bassist John Levy will turn 98 years old on April 11th, but he sounds half his age on the phone, and his memory is rock solid. For those unfamiliar with the name, John played bass in the Stuff Smith Trio in 1943 and 1944 and recorded with Don Byas and Erroll Garner in 1945. John was ...
Singer/Songwriter Mose Allison Interviewed at AAJ
Mose Allison, the singer/songwriter blues/jazz man from the Mississippi Delta, has reached the age of 82. He's packed into that lifetime some 60 years in the music business and on the road. He's still playing more than 100 club and concert dates a year, from New York to California, across the pond in England and elsewhere. ...
Mose Allison: Back in the (Studio) Saddle
by R.J. DeLuke
Mose Allison, the singer/songwriter blues/jazz man from the Mississippi Delta, has reached the age of 82. He's packed into that lifetime some 60 years in the music business and on the road. He's still playing more than 100 club and concert dates a year, from New York to California, across the pond in England and elsewhere.
Vibraphonist Joe Locke Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Vibraphonist Joe Locke has been on an upward trajectory since the beginning of his career, but especially over the last decade, where he's led/co-led a number of fine groups ranging from the intimate chamber jazz of his duo with pianist Frank Kimbrough and straight-ahead swing of his Milt Jackson tribute band to the electrified near-fusion of ...
Intervista a Ferdinando Faraò
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ferdinando Faraò con mani e piedi ci sa fare. Li ha usati in passato per diventare campione italiano di judo, li usa ora per percuotere mirabilmente pelli e metalli della sua batteria. Cresciuto in un ambiente che più musicale non si può - papà batterista, fratello (Antonio) pianista, zio (Massimo) pure pianista - ha saputo gradualmente ...
