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Intervista a Paolino Dalla Porta
by AAJ Italy Staff
Contrabbassista. Nato a Mantova nel 1956. Ha collaborato con tutti i maggiori esponenti del panorama jazzistico italiano ed internazionale. Dai grandi melodisti come Kenny Wheeler e Paolo Fresu, agli esponenti dell'avanguardia come Misha Mengelberg e John Tchicai. L'uscita di Urban Raga, suo quinto album da leader, pubblicato per l'etichetta Parco Della Musica, ci ha fornito lo ...
Photostory12: Miles Davis
I've always loved this Herb Snitzer image of Miles Davis. The trumpeter isn't posing or glaring at the camera. Instead, he's caught in motion, looking back at someone who has caught his eye. There's velocity here and a perspicacious flash, like a star athlete captured in mid-air making a split decision. Interestingly, Davis' restless, caged expression ...
Other Places: Bob Brookmeyer
I yield to no one in my admiration for Bob Brookmeyer, but Darcy James Argue gives me a good run for my money. Brookmeyer, the ground-breaking composer, arranger, leader and nonpareil valve trombone soloist, entered his ninth decade this week. Early in December, the Eastman School of Music honored him for his lifetime of achievement and ...
Producer Todd Barkan Interviewed at AAJ
Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...
Joe Alterman: Piano Tracks
It's easy to carp about the death of jazz and young jazz artists' ignorance of the music's history. Both are soft targets, especially since so many young jazz players seem almost proud that they know little or nothing about jazz's past. Somewhere along the line, “old" in our music schools became “useless," as if the shock ...
Guitarist Pete McCann Interviewed at AAJ
Jazz guitarist and educator Pete McCann has been a first-call sideman and bandleader on the New York scene for almost twenty years. Possessing a musical style that draws from the blues, jazz and rock genres, McCann's playing and writing styles are as diverse as his influences. Having worked with such world-class performers as Lee Konitz, Chris ...
Pete McCann: Looking Forward
by Matthew Warnock
Jazz guitarist and educator Pete McCann has been a first-call sideman and bandleader on the New York scene for almost twenty years. Possessing a musical style that draws from the blues, jazz and rock genres, McCann's playing and writing styles are as diverse as his influences. Having worked with such world-class performers as Lee Konitz, Chris ...
Pianist Vijay Iyer Interviewed at AAJ
New York-based pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is a rhythmic explorer whose piano trio album Historicity (ACT, 2009) is a cohesive and vibrant record that carries its creator and his colleagues firmly into the mainstream of modern music. The album stems from, among other sources, a succession of striking piano trio influences such as Duke Ellington's ...
Jazz à deux
by AAJ Italy Staff
Natale, tempo di famiglia... Quale miglior momento per scoprire le dinamiche che si creano tra musicisti che sono partner nella vita prim'ancora che nella musica? Quattro interviste per saperne di più su unisoni e dissonanze della vita da jazz couple di Susie Ibarra & Roberto Rodriguez, Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz, Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura ...
Intervista a Susie Ibarra e Roberto Rodriguez
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lei di origini filippine, nata in california e cresciuta in Texas. Lui cubano, emigrato con la famiglia negli Stati Uniti quando aveva nove anni. Si conoscono a Verona, si ritrovano a New York, punto di riferimento della loro attività artistica. Entrambi percussionisti, entrambi esponenti della scena avant, entrambi leader di progetti a proprio nome, ma anche ...
