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Portico Quartet: Not Particularly a Jazz Band
by Bruce Lindsay
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
Guitarist Charlie Hunter Interviewed at AAJ
Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter is not a musician who's comfortable resting on his laurels. With nearly twenty albums under his belt and no sign of stopping in sight, Hunter continues to wow audiences with the wizardry of his seven-string guitar technique, by which he lays down bass grooves and simultaneously wings guitar solos along the frets ...
Charlie Hunter: Seven-String Samurai
by Douglas Wright
Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter is not a musician who's comfortable resting on his laurels. With nearly twenty albums under his belt and no sign of stopping in sight, Hunter continues to wow audiences with the wizardry of his seven-string guitar technique, by which he lays down bass grooves and simultaneously wings guitar solos along the frets ...
Maria Pia De Vito: Tutte le voci che ho dentro
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella valigia musicale di Maria Pia De Vito c'è tutto il necessario per affrontare dei lunghi viaggi: la conoscenza della tradizione; l'amore per la diversità stilistica; il perfetto equilibrio tra teoria e improvvisazione. Il suo ultimo lavoro discografico Mind the Gap raccoglie una serie di brani, originali e non, legati da un unico denominatore: il gap, ...
Johnny Winter: The Blues' Last Outlaw
By: Jarrod Dicker When Old Man Winter comes to town He's got a special way of dropping in And spreading cheer around You know [the blues] is around the bend And he won't let you down When Old Man Winter comes to town -Old Man Winter ...
Listen to the Bass Player: Part 6, Scott Lafaro
The Rifftides series of posts on improving hearing by listening to bass lines leads inevitably to Scott LaFaro. It was less LaFaro's virtuosity that made a difference in the role of the bass than the uncanny group thinking and interaction he made possible in the Bill Evans Trio. LaFaro was what Evans had been looking for, ...
Interview: Marian McPartland (Part 2)
Pianist Marian McPartland never assumed a hipster or cool mystique like many of her male jazz peers. Throughout her 70-year career, there was no brooding, no puzzling behavior, and no legendary binges or tantrums. Just a good-girl smile as wide as Piccadilly Circus and knowing eyes that bore a steely determination to stand out with graceful ...
Composer and Arranger Gerald Wilson: The Big-Band Sage
By Tad Hendrickson It's not often that you get to talk to someone 91 years old, not to mention one who has played, written or arranged for Duke Ellington and hundreds of other jazz luminaries. So when Gerald Wilson is on the telephone from his home in Los Angeles, you generally let the man talk without ...
Johnny Winter: The Blues' Last Bona Fide Outlaw
By: Jarrod Dicker When Old Man Winter comes to town He's got a special way of dropping in And spreading cheer around You know [the blues] is around the bend And he won't let you down When Old Man Winter comes to town -Old Man Winter ...
Interview: Marian McPartland (Part 1)
Marian McPartland is probably best known today as a pioneering jazz radio host (NPR's Piano Jazz) and the grande dame of the jazz piano. But starting back in the 1950s, Marian was one of bebop's most graceful and nimble messengers. Equally well versed in Dixieland, stride and other forms of early jazz that she grew up ...
