Results for "Interview"

An Unusual Duo Tests Conventional Song Forms

January 10, 2010

Creative friction that playfully undercuts conventional song forms in a search of greater expressive latitude might describe the collaboration of Michael Winther, a theater singer of impeccable taste and polish, and the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer in their show, Songs and Variations, at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening. Mr. Winther, a tenor known for interpreting ...

Vic Rawlings: Hardball

by Gordon Marshall
January 10, 2010

On a June night in 2009, Vic Rawlings was spinning 1950s LPs at a local record store in Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At his side, the “sound fountain"--a true period piece of a hi-fi tower (mono, of course). Buddy Holly started the party, segueing into Doris Day and The Ink Spots. Sometimes the records skipped ...

Is Avant-Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp His Own Worst Enemy?

January 8, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson Matthew Shipp has a great new solo album coming out, but it's his mouth that once again causes a stir. There's been a rumble in the jazz jungle these last few weeks as a new Jazztimes article on the experimental pianist makes the rounds. There has been a number of posts here at ...

Interview: Dick Hyman (Part 3)

January 7, 2010

Pianist Dick Hyman is as precise with his words as he is with his notes. During our conversation, Dick often stopped mid-sentence momentarily when answering a question, as if rolling his choice of words around in his palm before selecting them. His pauses weren't abrupt or disconcerting. They were lyrical, like his playing, coming almost like ...

The Bad Plus' Reid Anderson Interviewed for "A to Z"

January 7, 2010

Intervista a Giovanni Mazzarino

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 7, 2010

Giovanni Mazzarino è uno dei pianisti italiani più noti e richiesti in ambito internazionale. Dopo un silenzio discografico di sei anni dovuto ad impegni didattici, torna sotto i riflettori a capo del quintetto con cui ha inciso il disco Light, per l'etichetta Philology. Negli ultimi mesi la sua attività è stata a dir poco frenetica: oltre ...

Interview: Dick Hyman (Part 2)

January 6, 2010

Dick Hyman can play anything and sound like anyone. Too often this has been unfairly characterized as impersonation. As anyone who has listened carefully to Dick knows, his ability to play fluently in the style of, say, James P. Johnson or Erroll Garner isn't an attempt to pass himself off as someone he's not. Rather, Dick ...

Interview: Dick Hyman (Part 1)

January 6, 2010

Few pianists have been there and done that as often as Dick Hyman. In addition to playing with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Tony Scott and Red Norvo, Dick studied with Teddy Wilson and recorded with Benny Goodman, Zoot Sims and virtually every other jazz great you can think of in the 1950s. In the late 1960s, ...

Trumpeter Joey Pero Interviewed at AAJ

January 6, 2010

The great lead and jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew tells his students that “talent is a matter of breaking barriers." While trumpeter Joey Pero might have brilliantly selected and covered “Defying Gravity" from Broadway's Wicked on his breakthrough CD, Resonance (Resonance Music Group, 2009), Pero has been defying and utterly smashing performance barriers all his life. What ...

Joey Pero: Breaking Sound Barriers

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 6, 2010

The great lead and jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew tells his students that “talent is a matter of breaking barriers." While trumpeter Joey Pero might have brilliantly selected and covered “Defying Gravity" from Broadway's Wicked on his breakthrough CD, Resonance (Resonance Music Group, 2009), Pero has been defying and utterly smashing performance barriers all his life. What ...