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Amina Claudine Myers: Mozart, Miles and Beyond
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Kurt Gottschalk Compositrice, pianista e cantante, Amina Claudine Myers è un membro della prima ora della famosa Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). di Chicago. Trasferitasi a Nord dalla sua cittadina nativa Blackwell, in Arkansas, era una mosca bianca nell'AACMnon solo perché era una delle poche donne iscritte, ma anche per la ...
Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 2)
Dave Brubeck brings enormous enthusiasm and swinging delight to every original and standard piece he plays. Whether it's Will You Still Be Mine from Angel Eyes (1962), So This Is Love from Dave Digs Disney (1957) or Nomad from Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958), Dave always sounds vibrant and airy. In Dave's playing exists the same ...
Pianist/Conductor Peter Nero Interviewed at AAJ
In July 2009, All About Jazz published an interview with legendary pianist and Philly Pops maestro Peter Nero. That interview jumped between his early musical development and his current 30-year tenure as founder and music director of the Philly Pops. There wasn't time then to ask him about the long intervening period including his salad days ...
The Popdose Guide to the Steve Miller Band, Part 1
Thats it. Ive had it. Or in the immortal words of Frank Costanza, I got a lot of problems with you people. Steve Miller at San Francisco's Fillmore in 2008 For months upon months, Ive watched as Popdose readers have slammed the guy who got me into pop music as a pre-teen and has held a ...
Peter Nero: The Laughter and The Challenges
by Victor L. Schermer
Part 1 | Part 2 In July 2009, All About Jazz published an interview with legendary pianist and Philly Pops maestro Peter Nero. That interview jumped between his early musical development and his current 30-year tenure as founder and music director of the Philly Pops. There wasn't time then to ask him about what ...
Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 1)
You can actually hear Dave Brubeck's two-octave grin over the phone. Dave talks slowly, at a measured pace, as though playing a ballad. His Memories of You speaking pace gives him plenty of time to be pinpoint accurate and to pause for reflection. It's at those moments, when he happily thinks back in time, that the ...
Trumpeter Forbes Graham Interviewed at AAJ
Forbes Graham isn't hell-bent on taking the jazz world over by fiat. Then again, a sterling tone like Louis Armstrong's, a sense of stride and a sidewinder sleekness position him to do so. He brings spot-on timing, inherited from his key precursor, Don Cherry, into the icy age of post jazz--and swings, too, situated comfortably within ...
Forbes Graham: Magenta Haze
by Gordon Marshall
Forbes Graham isn't hell-bent on taking the jazz world over by fiat. Then again, a sterling tone like Louis Armstrong's, a sense of stride and a sidewinder sleekness position him to do so. He brings spot-on timing, inherited from his key precursor, Don Cherry, into the icy age of post jazz--and swings, too, situated ...
Peter Martin Featured in St. Louis Beacon
Pianist Peter Martin is the subject of a feature story written by freelance journo & friend o' this website Terry Perkins and now online at the St. Louis Beacon. In the piece, Martin talks about his new Peter Martin Music series at the Sheldon Concert Hall and the series' first concert next Friday with singer Dianne ...
Chinese Jazz Fusioners Sizhukong Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
It is something of a paradox that the western world knows so relatively little about modern China, even as the awakening giant's influence in the world is increasing. With something like 10 million people migrating every year to China's cities, it seems inevitable that old musical traditions will find new voices once merged with influences such ...

