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Don Sleet: All Members
There are a number of highly talented jazz musicians from the late 1950s who can't really be called great because they recorded too few albums. In some cases these musicians never had an opportunity to record extensively. Or they came up too late and were trampled by the rock era in the mid-1960s. Or they succumbed ...
Pianist Mika Pohjola Interviewed at AAJ
From studying music theory with his father to attending Vantaa Music Institute and the Royal College of Music, Mika Pohjola's life has been entwined with both music and the pursuit of knowledge. His work mirrors his desire to journey ever outward, searching for ways to incorporate the various influences and inspirations which have helped him create ...
Mika Pohjola: The Ever Search
by Maxwell Chandler
From studying music theory with his father to attending Vantaa Music Institute and the Royal College of Music, Mika Pohjola's life has been entwined with both music and the pursuit of knowledge. His work mirrors his desire to journey ever outward, searching for ways to incorporate the various influences and inspirations which have helped him create ...
Big Band Leader/Zappa Archivist Ed Palermo Interviewed at AAJ
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, it's safe ...
Ed Palermo: We're Only In It For The Music
by Ian Patterson
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, ...
Intervista con Christian Wallumrød
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nato nel '71 e cresciuto a Kongsberg, nell'entroterra a sud della Norvegia, ha iniziato a studiare pianoforte a dodici anni e scoperto il jazz a 15, grazie al maestro Egil Kapstad. È Christian Wallumrød, raffinato e colto esponente della scena contemporanea norvegese. Ha debuttato nel '98 per la ECM con No Birch assieme ai connazionali Arve ...
Cindy Blackman Interview
Cindy Blackman Interview 2 This interview is part of the book project “Under your skin" which includes Interviews with David Murray, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, ...
Interview: Lennie Niehaus (Part 5)
Lennie Niehaus has been writing music for major motion pictures since the early 1960s. And since 1984 he has worked on virtually every movie Clint Eastwood has appeared in and directed. These include Bird, Absolute Power, Space Cowboys, Bridges of Madison County, The Unforgiven and The Rookie and many others. In each case, Lennie was given ...
Kyle Hollingsworth: Then There's Now
By: Andrew Bruss Kyle Hollingsworth by Tobin Voggesser It's been two years and counting since The String Cheese Incident went on hiatus, and in that time, its members have taken to the road, as well as the recording studio. But keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth has taken ...
Interview: Lennie Niehaus (Part 4)
Lennie Niehaus' arrangements for Stan Kenton's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s are superb. So are his too-brief solos with the band. But if you really want to hear Lennie's musical genius at work, you have to dig his small-group recordings of the mid-1950s. Kenton, like many bandleaders in the LP era, was smart ...
