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Stories: Sinatra, Herman and Manne
Once again, Bill Crow's The Band Room column in the New York musicians union Local 802 newspaper, Allegro, is packed with anecdotes. Here are two. Outgoing (Local 802) President Mary Landolfi told me this one: Her husband Pat and another tuba player, Lew Waldeck, had arranged to meet at the Carnegie Tavern after a benefit at ...
Hiding Solo Jazz Pianist Revealed on Dedicated Excavations
Jazz pianist and composer Alvaro Is Rojas represents the mysterious on the world jazz scene. He has successfully escaped from the mainstream scene for nearly forty years, at least if the standard of gig frequency is set by his more famous contemporaries, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett. Yet, where these aforementioned piano ...
Guitar Luthier Dan Koentopp Interview Launches New AAJ Column
AAJ is pleased to welcome Jack Huntley to its staff of contributors. While Jack will be providing a variety of content, he is launching a new column at AAJ, “Built to Sound," which will focus on a part of the music industry often overlooked - the people who design and build the instruments used by the ...
Larry Sonn Celebrates 91st Birthday
Trumpet player, arranger, composer, and internationally known band leader, Larry Sonn celebrated his 91st birthday with family and friends under the giant palm trees at Sanborn's restaurant in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Larry looked great and spoke of his musical career from his studies at New York's Julliard up through the Big Band Era. For years his band ...
Drummer Mickey Roker Interviewed at AAJ
Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that city for ...
Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues
by Victor L. Schermer
Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...
Fabrizio Bosso: "meno 'fast' e più ricerca"
by AAJ Italy Staff
Fabrizio Bosso è un musicista che non mette tutti d'accordo. Per molti è tra i trombettisti di maggior talento del panorama jazz e altri lo catalogano tra i cloni dei grandi del passato; chi ne elogia la tecnica cristallina mentre c'è chi ne avverte la piattezza espressiva; chi ne premia gli sforzi discografici (di recente il ...
Bob Freedman on Maynard Ferguson
Bob Freedman is a composer, arranger, pianist and reed player. In the early 1950s, he played alto sax with trumpeter Herb Pomeroy's big band in Boston, writing a good chunk of the orchestra's arrangements. Since 1960, Bob has arranged for more than 30 jazz and pop stars, including Ron Carter, Billy Joel, Joe Williams and Sarah ...
A Saxophone is Her Only Constant
Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, shes omnivorous and pointed, ...
