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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 ...
Siegfried Loch: 50 Years on the Music-Making Scene
by R.J. DeLuke
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 ...
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg Interviewed at AAJ
The diversity of clarinetist Ben Goldberg's musical interests may only be matched by the intensity of his study. He grew up on The Beatles and classic jazz, started playing Klezmer music at the University of California, Berkeley in the early '80s, and studied with renowned classical clarinet teacher Rossario Mazzeo. In 1984, he became the clarinetist ...
Ben Goldberg: Clarinet Communion
by Warren Allen
The diversity of clarinetist Ben Goldberg's musical interests may only be matched by the intensity of his study. He grew up on The Beatles and classic jazz, started playing Klezmer music at the University of California, Berkeley in the early '80s, and studied with renowned classical clarinet teacher Rosario Mazzeo. In 1984, he became the clarinetist ...
Norwegian Guitarist Eivind Aarset Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
In a time when the interactive video game Guitar Hero is selling in the millions, Eivind Aarset is, in many ways, the Guitar Anti-Hero. Despite making music that could easily lend itself to the kind of guitar pyrotechnics that are so often the litmus test of a good player, Aarset's emphasis is on texture, on melody, ...
Unsung but First Call: James Weidman
Pianist James Weidman is a thoughtful, exceedingly pleasant man who is an understated personality but as versatile a pianist as you will find. Weidman's discography as a leader is relatively short but potent. His current release is Three Worlds, on the Inner Circle Music label. On the heels of that release it was about time for ...
David Sylvian: Spalancare il cuore
by AAJ Italy Staff
Articolo di Nenad Georgievski Ci sono artisti che non vogliono assolutamente rischiare e lasciare la via vecchia per la nuova, ma David Sylvian non è uno di questi. Nel corso della sua folgorante carriera, Sylvian ha sempre cercato di trascinare i suoi ascoltatori fuori dai percorsi battuti. L'autoconsapevolezza e l'introspezione permeano ogni aspetto del suo lavoro. ...

