Results for "Interview"

John Pizzarelli Live Webcast Interview: December 3 at 4:30PM EST

November 30, 2009

Correspondence: About Freddie Schreiber

November 30, 2009

Cindy (Schreiber) Scontriano writes from California: I just heard your NPR interview about Vince Guaraldi. I really enjoyed it and then I had a flash from the past and wanted to ask you a few questions. I think I met Vince as a little girl. My uncle played the stand-up bass in Cal Tjader's band in ...

British Woodwind Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer Tim Garland Interviewed at AAJ

November 30, 2009

Composer, arranger and multi-reed virtuoso Tim Garland is a treasure the nation of the UK has yet to fully recognize. Having recorded a dozen albums in his own name, and arranged for and played in the groups of Chick Corea and Bill Bruford, Garland's pedigree as one of the leading jazz saxophonist/composers of his generation is ...

Tim Garland: Beyond the Frontier

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2009

Composer, arranger and multi-reed virtuoso Tim Garland is a treasure the nation of the UK has yet to fully recognize. Having recorded a dozen albums in his own name, and arranged for and played in the groups of Chick Corea and Bill Bruford, Garland's pedigree as one of the leading jazz saxophonist/composers of his generation is ...

Intervista a Cyro Baptista

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 30, 2009

Definirlo un jazzista pare quasi limitante. Cyro Baptista è uno di quegli artisti che la musica pare averla letteralmente attraversata, cimentandosi in ogni tipo di genere, ramificazione e derivazione. Per rendersi conto della poliedricità del personaggio basta scorrere velocemente l'infinita lista di collaborazioni eccellenti: Sting, Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Carlos Santana, Laurie Anderson, Melissa ...

Under Your Skin Interviews: Carla Bley, Jack DeJohnette, Dave McMurray, Mari Boine, Lydia Lunch and Baaba Maal

November 27, 2009

Under Your Skin is an exploration on the cultural diversity of music and artists from around the globe - from Popular Music to Jazz, Hip Hop, Reggae, Avantgarde, Experimental, Afrobeat, Drum & Bass, Metal, Electronic, DJ-ing/Turntablism, Folk, Classical and more. Carla Bley Jack DeJohnette

Josh Rager, in His Own Words

November 27, 2009

The Gloucester-raised, Montreal-based pianist Josh Rager has previously appeared in the blog on several occasions, proving his way with words as the interviewee here and here, for example, and as the incisive commenter, here. Recently Rager decided that he didn't need my half-baked ideas as points of departure anymore, and he launched his own ...

Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ

November 26, 2009

Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...

Photostory11: Lester Young

November 26, 2009

Lester Young was the first jazz musician photographer Herb Snitzer captured with his camera. In fact, the image you see here of Young outside the Five Spot in New York is the first jazz photograph Herb ever took. Writer Nat Hentoff has called this image by Herb “the quintessential Lester Young photograph." This photo and the ...

Take Eighty-Five

November 26, 2009

If Paul Desmond had lived, he would be 85 years old today. The last birthday he celebrated fell on Thanksgiving, 1976. For the occasion, Devra Hall cooked a turkey dinner for Desmond and her parents, Jim and Jane. She took the photograph that afternoon. Here's the story of the end of that part of the day, ...