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Improvising Duo Skinny Vinny Interviewed at AAJ
Andrew Eisenberg is the percussionist for the Boston, Mass. duo Skinny Vinny--and a conceptual mastermind. Equally adept with hammer, saw, trash can, pots and pans, or what have you, he can make you think, or muse, by knocking together a table, or banging a stick against a window. An early piece, a big white room with ...
Skinny Vinny: The Answer to Everything
by Gordon Marshall
Andrew Eisenberg is the percussionist for the Boston, Mass. duo Skinny Vinny--and a conceptual mastermind. Equally adept with hammer, saw, trash can, pots and pans, or what have you, he can make you think, or muse, by knocking together a table, or banging a stick against a window. An early piece, a big white room with ...
Jazz - Stereo Equipment Still Standing/Tommy Flanagan
One of many regrets: Won't be able to take my turntable, receiver and oversized speakers to Heaven. Thanks to my friend Sharon Dotson for calling this story to my attention: “The home stereos that refuse to die" -- Wall Street Journal Vinyl..and that's final Featured Artist: Tommy Flanagan Flanagan plays J.J. Johnson ...
Keep an Ear out for Gadi Lehavi
With fairness, it could be charged that Rifftides has been too concerned lately with the old and the dead. Well, certain observances and acknowledgments needed to be made. But let's move on. David Liebman wrote with an antidote. Here's his message: ok--it's a cliche now that “they" (meaning the kids) get better earlier-check this out--he's already ...
Guitarist/Bandleader Chris Jentsch Interviewed at AAJ
John Coltrane once said, “Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his music in his own words. “I think of myself as a composer/guitarist working with contemporary improvisational ...
Chris Jentsch: Cycles and Reflecting on the Journey
by Ludwig vanTrikt
John Coltrane once said, “Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his music in his own words. “I think of myself as a composer/guitarist working with contemporary improvisational ...
British Post-Jazzers Polar Bear Interviewed at AAJ
During the six or seven years since its formation, British quintet Polar Bear has garnered extensive praise from critics, fans and fellow musicians. Most famously, perhaps, the band was described by music critic Paul Morley as “dream jazz"--high praise, indeed. The band's second album, Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Babel, 2005), was nominated for the ...
Polar Bear: Raw and Spontaneous
by Bruce Lindsay
During the six or seven years since its formation, British quintet Polar Bear has garnered extensive praise from critics, fans and fellow musicians. Most famously, perhaps, the band was described by music critic Paul Morley as “dream jazz"--high praise, indeed. The band's second album, Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Babel, 2005), was nominated for the ...
Ciro Longobardi in-all-directions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si può ben dire che l'attività di Ciro Longobardi, pianista campano, si profila ad ora già eccezionale nel panorama contemporaneo italiano. Da più di quindici anni, Longobardi si dedica allo studio ed alla diffusione del repertorio e dei linguaggi musicali moderni e contemporanei, animato senza sosta da una grande curiosità per tutte le possibilità offerte dal ...
Heard Evan Christopher Yet? (PT. 2)
Part one of Twin Cities-based writer Pamela Espeland's conversation with the kinetic New Orleans-based clarinetist Evan Christopher left off with the artist commenting on his jazz education in his native California and his earlier leanings towards perhaps--tongue-in-cheek--qualifying for a spot in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. So now you are known as a New Orleans-style, Creole-style clarinetist. ...
