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Roberta Gambarini: Making Listeners Fall 'So In Love'
by R.J. DeLuke
It's been an out-of-the-ordinary career trip for Roberta Gambarini--a trip that's seen her go from a young girl in Italy, scatting along with records by American singers Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, to struggling to get singing gigs in her native land, to grabbing an opportunity to come to the United States, to gaining recognition by ...
Interview: Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard's photographs of the 1940s and 1950s can be credited with building a national appetite for jazz. Early on, Herman grasped jazz's drama and genius, and he began spending as much time as possible in New York's clubs and recording studios documenting jazz artists at work. Herman's goal was twofold: to preserve the expressive poetry ...
Other Places: Stryker and Primack on Marcus Belgrave
Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, admired within jazz circles but little known outside them, has received tangible recognition for his work as a player and a teacher. Belgrave left Ray Charles in the early 1960s ago to settle in Detroit. In today's Detroit Free Press, Mark Stryker reports on the award and on Belgrave's contribution to the city's ...
In My Life: Robert Hilburn's 'Corn Flakes with John Lennon'
Robert Hilburn was pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times for 35 years, from the psychedelic era to the emergence of the iPod. He witnessed many of rock 'n' roll's seminal moments and interviewed virtually every major pop figure of the period. All of this is chronicled in his memoir, “Corn Flakes with John Lennon ...
Julian Lage Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble (NYC)
Julian Lage Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble (NYC) on Friday October 9th Join us this Friday, October 9th for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with guitar prodigy Julian Lage. Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028 About Julian Lage Julian Lage is a ...
Italian Vocalist Roberta Gambarini's Imperfect Jazz
As the child of parents who met at a jazz concert, it would seem that singer Roberta Gambarini was destined (or cursed!) to become a jazz musician. Born and raised in Torino, Italy, Gambarini has since gained a reputation as one of the best new singers on the jazz scene, singing in a warm but light ...
Interview: Sonny Rollins (Part 2)
Way Out West is a jazz concept album. It was conceived by Sonny Rollins in 1957 as an homage to the Wild West and the Westerns of his youth. But for years, some thought the recording was an imposition on Sonny by kitschy West Coast commercial interests. Nothing could be further from the truth. On tour ...
Musica dall'Iran, fra tradizione e innovazione. Intervista a Iradj Sahbai
by AAJ Italy Staff
“La poesia è per me come una finestra" (Forugh Farrokhzad ) Le parole della celebre poetessa iraniana, che negli anni '50 guardava all'Occidente con coraggioso spirito di libertà e indipendenza, sarebbero con ogni probabilità sottoscritte da un suo connazionale attivo oggi, il compositore Iradj Sahbai. Da sempre, infatti, nella cultura persiana la poesia e la musica ...
Interview: Sonny Rollins (Part 1)
To truly understand Sonny Rollins, you need to know something about Westerns. The simple ones from the 1930s that weren't big productions and didn't have elaborate musical scores. Just terse dialogue, tough looks and lots of justice. Sonny loves them. He grew up in Harlem during the Depression and regularly tuned into Westerns on the family ...
Russian Pianist Ivan Farmakovsky Interviewed at AAJ
Crisis or no crisis, the 2008-2009 jazz concert season in Russia was far from being eventless. New fruitful collaborations were unveiled, new record labels were launched, old festivals have convincingly confirmed that they were well alive and kicking, and many good Russian jazz albums have hit the stores. Those albums revealed a new trend, that of ...
