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Intervista a Robin Holcomb e Wayne Horvitz
by AAJ Italy Staff
All About Jazz: Come avete instaurato il vostro legame artistico e sentimentale? Vi siete conosciuti grazie alla musica o indipendentemente da essa? Wayne Horvitz: Ci siamo conosciuti al college, a Santacruz, in California. La musica è stato decisamente l'elemento chiave: suonavamo entrambi, usavamo le sale delle prove e andavamo a lezione assieme. Robin Holcomb: Ero appena ...
Intervista a Satoko Fujii e Natsuki Tamura
by AAJ Italy Staff
La pianista Satoko Fujii e il trombettista Natsuki Tamura costituiscono una delle coppie artistiche più innovative e versatili del jazz internazionale. La ricerca di Satoko coniuga l'avanguardia post-free con riferimenti al folklore giapponese e alla musica classica europea in un corpus d'incisioni che spazia da piccolissimi organici alla conduzione di formazioni orchestrali. Natsuki Tamura è un ...
Vijay Iyer: Into The Mainstream
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Intervista a Michael Lösch ed Helga Plankensteiner
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una delle poche “coppie jazzistiche" attive in Italia è quella formata dalla sassofonista Helga Plankensteiner e dal pianista e compositore Michael Lösch. Entrambi appartengono alla minoranza etnica del Südtirol e all'interno di una produzione artistica ampia e articolata, operano una sintesi tra le loro radici culturali e il linguaggio musicale afro-americano. All About Jazz Italia: Le ...
Meet Chris Dawson
I had never heard of Chris Dawson until this morning, when a link to a video showed up in a friend's e-mail message. The message contained rave blurbs about Dawson from Alan Broadbent, Charlie Haden, Dave Frishberg, Dick Hyman, Gary Foster, John Clayton and Bob Sheppard. The endorsements got my attention. The video was a shortened ...
Gov't Mule: Any Open Window
By: Dennis Cook Warren Haynes Gov't Mule's ninth studio album, By A Thread (released October 27 on Evil Teen Records), roars out of the gate with a steely intensity - helped along by “badass guitar" from pal Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) - that's helped define ...
Tiny Grimes with Coleman Hawkins
Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and guitarist Tiny Grimes recorded together six times over their long careers. Both musicians were showmen at heart--Hawkins as an imposing and chameleon-like improviser and Grimes as a blues master and r&b showboater. Their first two sessions were in 1944. A third came backing Billie Holiday during a Jazz at the Philharmonic ...
The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Hosts a "Tech Talk" Podcast Exclusive with Mega Music Producer Roy Hamilton III
Minneapolis - One of the hottest and most unique celebrity driven Podcast to hear some of Billboard's chart topping award winning music producers, composers, arrangers, vocalists and engineers discuss their production techniques and preferences, influences, song structure, music instruments, genre, style and their craft, state of the art recording equipment, background and upcoming projects is: The ...
Intervista a Gianni Gebbia
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' difficile rintracciare Gianni Gebbia. Perché non sai se vive a Palermo, a Okayama in Giappone o in qualche città attraversata nel suo peregrinare per il mondo. E' difficile rintracciare Gianni Gebbia perché non sai se trovarlo suonare il sax in un locale jazz, o darci dentro in una post-rock band, alle prese con canzonette pop, ...
God, Brubeck and All That Jazz
Any jazz fan who has been paying attention at all during the past half century will recognize the quirky 5/4 riff that means the Dave Brubeck Quartet is swinging into its classic “Take Five." But there's another tune the pianist keeps playing that is completely different. “Forty Days" opens with the haunting, chant-like lines that define ...
