Results for "Interview"

Composer and Arranger Gerald Wilson: The Big-Band Sage

November 6, 2009

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

November 6, 2009

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)

November 6, 2009

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 ...

Listen to the Bass Player: Part 5, Red Mitchell

November 6, 2009

In the first paragraph of Part 3 of this series, it was not by random choice that I included Red Mitchell's name in the short list of important bassists who emerged in the 1940s. He discovered ways of playing the instrument that made a difference in the bass's role in jazz. Bill Crow, the hero of ...

Jean-Paul Bourelly/Citizen X Interview

November 5, 2009

Photostory10: Dizzy and Duke

November 5, 2009

On September 18, 1970, Paul Slaughter was at the Monterey Jazz Festival photographing the performers for Transworld Features when he captured the image you see here (click to enlarge). I love Paul's photo of Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. In their expressions, you see all of the joy, confidence and playfulness of jazz and jazz-entertainment history. ...

Listen to the Bass Player: Part 4, Paul Chambers

November 5, 2009

For the new segment of our adventure in letting bassists be our guides, author, critic and sometime Rifftides commentator Larry Kart has a fine idea. May I suggest, for Part 4, Paul Chambers behind Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb on “So What." Like Heath and LaFaro in their various ways, where Chambers ...

Listen to the Bass Player: Part 3, Bill Crow

November 5, 2009

As you may recall from parts 1 and 2, our theme in this series is that by concentrating on the lines played by a good string bassist, you can gain an understanding of the shape and structure of a piece of music, feel its heartbeat, sense its soul. Duke Ellington's Jimmy Blanton in the early 1940s ...

Paolo Fresu: i mille volti di un musicista completo

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 5, 2009

Cittadino del mondo, ma profondamente radicato nella sua Sardegna, appunto da buon sardo è determinato e caparbio; iperattivo su mille fronti, mantiene sempre una calma imperturbabile e invidiabile; jazzista completo (compositore, leader, interprete...), ma anche scrittore e organizzatore di eventi; impegnato politicamente tanto da rischiare di venire candidato nelle ultime elezioni politiche e amministrative; alla mano ...

Listen to the Bass Player: Part 2, NHOP

November 4, 2009

Let us pursue the music appreciation method outlined in Part 1 (see the following exhibit). The theory is that concentrating on the bass lines of superior players can sharpen your perception of the music. Today's lesson is from another great bassist. It's Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen in 1971 at the Cafe Monmartre in Copenhagen. Niels Jorgen Steen ...