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Progressive Saxophonist/Flautist Theo Travis Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
British musician Theo Travis has one of the most varied performing and recording histories to be found among contemporary jazz musicians. A talented saxophonist, flautist and composer, Travis has performed solo, in duos and quartets, in straight ahead jazz combos and in electronic, improvisational groups. Despite his extensive back catalog, however, Theo Travis is not as ...
Theo Travis: From Prog to Jazz and Back Again
by Bruce Lindsay
British musician Theo Travis has one of the most varied performing and recording histories to be found among contemporary jazz musicians. A talented saxophonist, flautist and composer, Travis has performed solo, in duos and quartets, in straight ahead jazz combos and in electronic, improvisational groups. He has performed live soundtracks in cinemas, ...
Pianist Fred Hersch Interviewed at AAJ
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Bentornata Incus !
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo la scomparsa di Derek Bailey (il giorno di Natale del 2005) si erano un po' perse le tracce della Incus Records. L'atroce dubbio di chi scrive, mentre alcuni titoli del catalogo andavano scomparendo dagli scaffali dei negozi virtuali (l'ultima Bengodi di chi ancora si ostina a comprare dischi), era che l'etichetta fosse finita su un ...
Fred Hersch: No Limits
by Maxwell Chandler
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Living Colour: A Lively Conversation
By: Dennis Cook Living Colour by Bill Bernstein Who says a jazz band can't play dance music? Who says a rock band can't play funky? Who says a funk band can't play rock? Oh yeah! We're gonna play some funk so loud We're gonna rock and ...
Hank Jones Said It
"During the initial period when I first came to New York, Al Haig was the pianist. His style was quite a departure from what I had previously been trying to play, which was more oriented towards the Teddy Wilson school with hints of Art Tatum, only hints, faint hints. [Bop] was a different style. I suppose ...
Jazz Bassist Ben Allison: "Free" to Be
Bassist Ben Allison has a boyish look to him, but he's carved out a impressive career for himself since graduating from New York University with a Jazz Performance degree in 1989. Here on his ninth album, 'Think Free,' Allison continues on in a recent direction that is more straightforward than the chamber jazz of earlier albums ...
