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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 ...
Ivan Farmakovsky: Raising the Bar
by Cyril Moshkow
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 ...
Mindblowers (Vol. 7)
At the end of each quarter, I reach back into the interviews I've conducted over the past three months and re-post my favorite quotes. I do this so that those of you who are new to this blog and those who weren't able to read the interviews in full have a chance to sample them. Many ...
Keyboardist Matthias Bublath Interviewed at AAJ
At the turn of the decade, German-born pianist Matthias Bublath got organized at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. After a free-wheeling stint in Linz, Austria, his musical education began in earnest, but it was also at Berklee that he took up the Hammond B3 organ. Since then the young pianist has become an ...
Matthias Bublath: Getting Organized
by Alan Bryson
At the turn of the decade, German-born pianist Matthias Bublath got organized at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. After a free-wheeling stint in Linz, Austria, his musical education began in earnest, but it was also at Berklee that he took up the Hammond B3 organ. Since then the young pianist has become an ...
Interview: Al Stewart (Part 5)
By the late 1950s, trumpeter Al Stewart was performing relentlessly with top bands, recording on a range of notable big band albums and playing in orchestras supporting televised events such as The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. By 1958, television had created enormous opportunity for many big band musicians, especially as jazz's popularity began to wane and ...
Shutter Master Roberto Polillo
In a field where names such as Herman Leonard, Lee Tanner, Francis Wolff, William Gottlieb, William Claxton reign supreme; anyone who dabbles into jazz photography is destined to play camera aide. Their works adorned countless jazz publications and albums throughout the years. Each with famous shots marked indelibly into our minds. It is only a matter ...
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