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Komeda Project Interviewed at AAJ
Komeda Project is dedicated to the music of the great Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda. Komeda died young--days before his 38th birthday. During his relatively short life, he composed numerous film scores and jazz tunes and was responsible for the seminal album Astigmatic (Muza Records, 1965)--one of Jazzwise Magazine's “100 Jazz Albums that Shook the World." It ...
Art Van Damme, Pete Barbutti and the Cordeen
In the right hands, the accordion can be a wonderfully evocative instrument. To name a few jazz masters of the accordion: George Shearing, Joe Mooney, Eddie Monteiro, Pete Jolly, Ernie Felice, Angelo DiPippo, Tommy Gumina, and Sivuca, whose harmonic and rhythmic use of the accordion enhanced so much fine Brazilian music. Gus DeWert was a splendid ...
Komeda Project: Bringing New Life to a Legend
by Bruce Lindsay
Komeda Project is dedicated to the music of the great Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda. Komeda died young--days before his 38th birthday. During his relatively short life, he composed numerous film scores and jazz tunes and was responsible for the seminal album Astigmatic (Muza Records, 1965)--one of Jazzwise Magazine's “100 Jazz Albums that Shook the World." It ...
T.S. Monk: Drummer and Son of Late Jazz Great Carves His Own Musical Path
Theres a simple but often forgotten message that drummer T.S. Monk, son of legendary jazz artist Thelonious Monk, will be spreading to students when he comes to Northeast Ohio to participate in the Lakeland Jazz Festival, which takes place Thursday through Saturday at the Lakeland Performing Arts Center at the college in Kirtland. “Play your own ...
Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater Interviewed at AAJ
It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain with drugs and song lyrics on her way to self destruction in 1959. In her greatness, Billie was as devastating and as devastated as a summer with no water. And yet her ...
John Medeski & MMW: 18 anni e non sentirli
by AAJ Italy Staff
Articolo di R.J. DeLuke Medeski, Martin & Wood, che sin da da quando sono apparsi sulla scena come trio, più di 18 anni fa, riescono a raccogliere schiere di appassionati come una valanga raccoglie neve fresca mentre precipita a valle, spiazzano continuamente i fan suonando tutto fuorché quello che ci si aspetta da loro. Come se ...
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee on Billie
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain with drugs and song lyrics on her way to self destruction in 1959. In her greatness, Billie was as devastating and as devastated as a summer with no water. And yet her ...
Arturo Sandoval Can Freely Trumpet His Affinity for Jazz
Anyone who thinks Cuban-born trumpet great Arturo Sandoval's dramatic life story is worthy of being made into a movie is absolutely correct -- and a decade too late. “There is a movie about me that HBO made in 2000. Andy Garcia played me, and Charles Dutton played Dizzy," said Sandoval, who rose to international fame in ...
Interview: John Levy (Part 5)
Bassist John Levy spent the first half of his career as a jazz musician. Then, in 1951, he changed jobs and became a personal manager of jazz musicians. He had long yearned to be on the business side, and the surging popularity of the George Shearing Quintet gave him the opportunity. At first John represented only ...
Saxophonist David S. Ware - Featured Artist
Audio and video: “Mikuro's Blues" Live at the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival “Ganesh Sound (Renunciation)" with Peter Brotzmann Ensemble More Ware music at lala.com David S. Ware website ...
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