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Regina Carter's "Reverse Thread" at Tanglewood Jazz Festival Sept 5
Violinist and composer Regina Carter was presented with the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award in June at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center. “The Vanguard Award was presented to me based on my ‘innovative musical activity,” Ms. Carter says. “I have been fortunate to participate in many stylistically diverse musical settings and am attracted ...
Yaron Herman: An Urgent Need to Play
by Jean-Marc Gelin
Pianist Yaron Herman, an Israeli now living in Paris, is one of the most talented artists of the Parisian jazz musical scene. He was a promising basketball player on the Israeli national junior team when he was cut short by a knee injury. He then decided to take up playing the piano at age 16. His ...
Guitarist Wayne Krantz Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Guitarist Wayne Krantz is one of the great non-conformists. An improviser who avoids stylistic limitations and cliché like the plague, his music draws from diverse elements and welds them sonically to create something quite personal. Krantz has turned his back on recording studios for the last 15 years, choosing instead to release live shows through his ...
Maybe Willie Nelson is Too Prolific
Willie Nelson is one of music's greatest - few can argue that. His popularity crosses genres, entertainment mediums and socio-economic boundaries. Even as he creeps up on 80, he's cool, he's smart, he's - just as the title of his latest album suggests - an American Classic. Yet American Classic is his second CD this year ...
George Benson: Songs and Stories
Fans of smooth jazz appreciated guitarist/vocalist George Benson's last album, 2006's Givin' It Up, a collaboration with Al Jarreau. While the two seemed to have great fun covering each other's songs as well as other soul and jazz classics, they sounded somewhat reserved, as if afraid to really cut loose. Benson's followup, Songs and Stories, features ...
Photostory 6: Dizzy Gillespie
One of my favorite photos of Dizzy Gillespie is this one by Paul Slaughter. I love it because Dizzy has an expression not often seen in other images of the trumpet great. It's a before-the-gig look, and through his face you feel all of his creative energy and physical exhaustion. Paul picks up the story behind ...
Wayne Krantz: Back on Track
by Ian Patterson
Guitarist Wayne Krantz is one of the great non-conformists. An improviser who avoids stylistic limitations and cliche like the plague, his music draws from diverse elements and welds them sonically to create something quite personal. Krantz has turned his back on recording studios for the last 15 years, choosing instead to release live shows ...
Twin Albums from Twin Bandleaders Inspire a Post-Bop Celebration
The identical twin brothers Marcus and E. J. Strickland, from Miami, have spent most of this decade carving a foothold on the New York jazz landscape. At 30 both are central figures within the present wave of dynamic and open-minded post-bop. Marcus, a saxophonist, and E. J., a drummer, each have impressive new albums that draw ...
Harmolodic Guitarist Bern Nix Interviewed at AAJ
New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's “harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1988, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the ...
