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Intervista inedita con Horace Tapscott
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quest'intervista inedita con Horace Tapscott risale al 28 giugno 1987, il giorno prima del concerto del suo gruppo al Teatro Romano di Verona nell'ambito di “Verona Jazz". Il pianista texano di nascita ma californiano d'adozione [per leggere un approfondimento sulla sua sua figura clicca qui], giungeva per la seconda ed ultima volta in Italia, dopo aver ...
Photostory14: Jonah Jones
Trumpeter Jonah Jones began recording in 1936 and worked steadily in Cab Calloway's band between 1941 and 1950. In the 1950s, Jones recorded mostly for Capitol, churning out themed albums with crisp jazz renditions of standards. I love this photo of Jones by Hank O'Neal because it captured a certain melancholy in Jones' eyes while the ...
Elliott Brood: Stranger Than Fiction
By: Sarah Hagerman And how we love the evening The gaslight flooded streets We pour into the dance halls The floors jump through our feet Elliott Brood If the geographic west has long been settled, the idea of the ...
Jazz Pianist Hiromi Travels Light on Her New Solo Album
By Tad Hendrickson About a month ago, I reviewed an Oscar Peterson tribute that took place at Carnegie Hall. It was a night of wonderful music from pianists Kenny Baron, Roger Kellaway and Hiromi Uehara in solo performances. The darling of the night was the Japanese lady who came off as a sort of jazz artist ...
Interview: Gunther Schuller (Part 4)
Gunther Schuller has composed more than 160 original classical and jazz-classical works. In 1994, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Of Reminiscences and Recollections, a memorial composition for his wife, Marjorie Black. Gunther also is the winner of many other awards, including Columbia University's William Schuman Award for lifetime achievement in American music composition. And then ...
Compatible Quotes: On Bud Powell
No one could play like Bud; too difficult, too quick, incredible!--Thelonious Monk Bud is a genius.--Charlie Parker Bud is a genuine genius.--Duke Ellington He laid down the basis of modern jazz piano.--Dizzy Gillespie Bud was the most brilliant that a spirit might be, a unique genius in our culture.--Max RoachHe was the foundation out of which ...
Interview: Gunther Schuller (Part 3)
Between 1955 and 1957, Gunther Schuller participated in three fascinating jazz recordings: the Modern Jazz Society (Verve) with John Lewis, Gigi Gryce's Nica's Tempo (Signal) and Birth of the Third Stream (Columbia), which featured music recorded at the 1957 Brandeis Jazz Festival. Each explored jazz-classical concepts, though Nica's Tempo owed more to the linear sound of ...
Bill Royston: The History of a Festival
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
It is a passion and responsibility that no one takes as serious as they do; and they do it knowing that little, if any acknowledgment will come their way. They are the festival promoters and artistic directors of this music we call Jazz.And though it's a music that has always had its up and ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: riflessioni da Berlino
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Franz A. Matzner Ormai riconosciuto come uno dei più importanti artisti Jazz del panorama contemporaneo, Kurt Rosenwinkel si è costruito una fama di innovatore e sperimentatore indefesso grazie alla sua maestria chitarristica. Ha sviluppato un suono unico in anni di ricerche e affinamenti, e oggi si è guadagnato una posizione di tutto rispetto sia ...
Interview: Gunther Schuller (Part 2)
The more Gunther Schuller explored the New York arts scene in the late 1940s, the more he gravitated toward jazz. As a young, advanced French hornist with the city's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Gunther related completely to the creative enthusiasm, explosive excitement and brilliance of the bebop musicians he heard in the clubs and in concert. When ...
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