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Ornette Coleman: la musica e' il verbo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Articolo di Warren Allen “Alcune persone pensano che la musica sia qualcosa di elevato," dice Ornette Coleman, raggiunto al telefono nel suo appartamento di New York. “Ma fondamentalmente si riduce al fatto che le persone ricevono piacere dal suono. E non dall'argomento raccontato dalla musica". Ci sono molti aspetti legati ad Ornette Coleman e alla sua ...
Myron Walden: Eclectic Reedman
by Edward Bride
In words often used to describe the music of Duke Ellington, Myron Walden is a saxophonist beyond category. More so than many other musicians, Walden himself eschews reliance on any one instrument, not tenor or alto nor soprano nor bass nor... well, you get the idea. The voice that he is striving to use in any ...
Interview: Ray Santos (Part 2)
For years, Latin-jazz has been ignored or unduly dismissed as repetitive novelty music by jazz fans who should know better. While Latin-jazz is certainly foreign to those who have little knowledge of or connection with the Latin experience in America, the music's tempos and syncopation remain exceptional and worthy of scholarship. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ...
Interview: Ray Santos (Part 1)
As Latin-jazz legends go, saxophonist Ray Santos ranks high on the list. Few living Latin-jazz artists today can claim to have played in and arranged for the bands of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. To give you an idea of what this trifecta means, it would be akin to a saxophonist playing in the Duke ...
The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Discusses Production/Engineering and Guitar Dynamics with Two-Time Grammy Award Winning Producer/Jazz Guitarist Paul Brown
Minneapolis, MN - One of the hottest and most unique celebrity driven radio platforms to hear some of Billboard's chart topping music producers, composers, arrangers and engineers discuss their production techniques and preferences, influences, music instruments, their craft, state of the art recording equipment and upcoming projects is The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Music ...
Jazz Saxophonist Myron Walden Returns with New 'Momentum'
By Tad Hendrickson Jazz has had its fair share of players who have put their careers on hold to do some woodshedding. The most well-known example is probably Sonny Rollins' 1959-61 sabbatical where he studied philosophy and yoga, traveled and (most famously) practiced on New York's Williamsburg Bridge at night. Oftentimes, these searching musicians return to ...
Other Matters: Mercer, Mercer, Mercer
Today is the 100th anniversary of Johnny Mercer's birth. To celebrate it, Dave Frishberg and Rebecca Kilgore will be the guests on National Public Radio's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. See your local listings for station and time, or check here. If you live somewhere other than the United States or if your town doesn't have ...
Tory Z Starbuck Featured in St. Louis Magazine
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and musical experimenter Tory Z. Starbuck is featured in an entertaining interview done by Jeannette Cooperman for the November issue of St. Louis magazine. As fate would have it, Starbuck also has a performance this Friday, November 20 called “Japanese Koto meets Space Age Electronics" at S. Carmody Photography, 2707 Sutton Blvd. ...
Philadelphia Guitarist Chuck Anderson Interviewed at AAJ
Chicago-born but long associated with the Philadelphia scene, Chuck Anderson is one of the many guitarists working in the trenches but deserving of greater recognition. With ten CDs to his name, Anderson has run the Medley Music School for nearly a decade, has authored over a dozen instructional books, and continues to work as a media ...
Chuck Anderson: Philadelphia Ace
by Ed Benson
[Editor's Note] Chicago-born but long associated with the Philadelphia scene, Chuck Anderson is one of the many guitarists working in jazz who deserves greater recognition. With ten CDs to his name, Anderson has authored over a dozen instructional books, and maintains a busy teaching and consulting business. The developer of the Neo Classical Style of guitar ...
