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Reedman/Composer Matt Renzi Interviewed at AAJ
Matt Renzi is a multi-reedist, best known for his tenor sax playing and clarinet (his two main horns), but who has a knack for picking up other instruments as needed such as oboe, piccolo and flute. His New York City-based trio has been well-recognized for its group improv and composition and has recorded several CDs. Performing ...
Michael Houser: 7 Years Gone We Remember the Lingering Lead
By: Kayceman Michael Houser: 7 Years Gone - We Remember The Lingering Lead January 6, 1962 - August 10, 2002 It's hard to believe Michael Houser and his lingering lead have been gone for seven years. As we remember the original lead guitarist for Widespread Panic we thought there was no better way to ...
Matt Renzi: Between the Lines
by Blaine Fallis
Matt Renzi is a multi-reedist, best known for his tenor sax playing and clarinet (his two main horns), but who has a knack for picking up other instruments as needed such as oboe, piccolo and flute. His New York City-based trio has been well-recognized for its group improv and composition and has recorded several CDs. Also ...
Jazz Music and India, by Madhav Chari
Madhav Chari a Jazz Pianist and Composer says “Make friends with the music, and do not worry about the “structure" of the music: just taste it for now." Jazz music is one of the most important artistic contributions of humankind in the modern era, and one of America's greatest contributions to the world of art. One ...
Vocalist Lainie Cooke Interviewed at AAJ
When Lainie Cooke sings, the heart sinks in poetry made music; air seems to stop to avoid interrupting the flowing of such a magical, beautiful voice. She fills the barely-noticeable silence between notes with a voice that caresses the heart. Her life has been a jazz-bound adventure inspired by an early need to entertain others, landing ...
Sun Spin: Journey
On A Very Phish-y Weekend Around JamBase We Revisit A Distinct But Oft-Forgotten Ancestor To The Jam Scene While the name Journey has become synonymous with The Sopranos finale, Will Ferrell movie gags and full-tilt mainstream pandering like “Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" and “Open Arms," in the band's initial years they were a full-blooded ...
Lainie Cooke: Speaking to the Heart
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
When Lainie Cooke sings, the heart sinks in poetry made music; air seems to stop to avoid interrupting the flowing of such a magical, beautiful voice. She fills the barely-noticeable silence between notes with a voice that caresses the heart. Her life has been a jazz-bound adventure inspired by an early need to entertain others, landing ...
Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds
The drummer Tyshawn Sorey confounds easy assumptions, including the assumption that because he is a drummer, his own music should favor the drums, or the assumption that because he plays jazz, all of his music should sound like jazz. His new band is a trio with guitar and bass, but its pretty far from any standard ...
Pirate Troubadour Roaming the Seas of Improvisation
THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz. Blame it on John Coltrane, whose classic 1961 album, “Live at the Village Vanguard,” landed in Mr. Vazquez’s record collection when he was 14. “That was the second jazz record I ever owned,” Mr. Vazquez, 51, said at his apartment here. ...
At Age 82, Still Serving up Jazz with Soul
THE alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson burst on the jazz scene around 1950 with a bebop style that many listeners likened to Charlie Parker’s. A few years later, he adopted a more basic blues approach that evolved into a popular, and profitable, jazz corollary to the work of soul singers like James Brown. Today, at 82, he ...
