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Bill Kreutzmann: Pushing Forward
By: Andrew Bruss Bill Kreutzmann Even though the surviving members of the Grateful Dead have officially wrapped up their cross-country tour, drummer/founding member Bill Kreutzmann kept busy on the road, performing with BK3, his band featuring Scott Murawski of Max Creek on guitar, James Hutchinson on bass and Donna the Buffalo's Tara Nevins on vocals (BK3 ...
Louis Armstrong: The Decca Years
To understand Louis Armstrong's recording career between 1935 and 1946, you have to view the 11-year period as a marketing campaign. Newly divorced from wife Lil at the depth of the Depression, Louis was an emotional wreck when he returned to Chicago in 1935. Broke and with slim job prospects, Louis was despondent about his future. ...
Interview: Denny Zeitlin (Part 4)
What you notice almost immediately when interviewing pianist Denny Zeitlin is his curiosity. Denny's certainly gratified to have someone ask him questions about his career and creative work. But he's not above asking a few innocent questions of his own, especially when he wants to better understand the questioner's slant. Denny's a great listener, and like ...
Interview: Denny Zeitlin (Part 3)
Pianist Denny Zeitlin scored just one motion picture in his career, the 1978 remake of the 1950s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The score is notable for its combined use of symphonic brass, strings and synthesizers. Denny's goal was to create themes and incidental music that would capture in music the paranoia and fear that's ...
Louis Armstrong!
Yesterday was Louis Armstrong's 108th birthday, and I forgot to mention it. To make up for that oversight, Rifftides brings you Armstrong in 1958. Pops's singing and playing partner is his pal of 30 years, Jack Teagarden. Louis was 57 years old and playing beautifully on every level--range, tone and ideas. At 2:41, listen to him ...
Charles Davis: In the Air
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Saxophonist Charles Davis has spent the past few decades making history with such luminaries as Billie Holiday, Kenny Dorham, Abdullah Ibrahim, Clifford Jordan, Dinah Washington and Freddie Hubbard. Although Davis might be best known as one of the baritone players in the Sun Ra Arkestra, his many recordings and excellent performances outside of the Arkestral context ...
Interview: Denny Zeitlin (Part 2)
Denny Zeitlin's early trio albums for Columbia Records keep getting better with age. The recordings between 1963 and 1966 are sensitive, pulsating and lyrical. They also beg comparison to Bill Evans' recordings of the same period. Both pianists could slip into an ecstatic state at the drop of a hat while performing, and both made strong ...
Mark Karan: Fire Walker
By: Dennis Cook Mark Karan We're lucky to have Mark Karan. For the past 11 years he's been the lead guitarist and six-string foil for Bob Weir in RatDog, treading into Jerry Garcia's territory with a skip and a hop, injecting a classic '70s shredding fluidity ...
Intervista a Remo Anzovino
by AAJ Italy Staff
Remo Anzovino, compositore e pianista di Pordenone, oltre che avvocato penalista, ha all'attivo due soli album, ma una serie impressionante di riconoscimenti e approvazioni da parte di critica e pubblico che lo hanno reso uno dei casi più intriganti del panorama pianistico della Penisola. Un'attenzione improvvisa, inaspettata, ottenuta grazie a una formula semplice, ma dal grande ...
Interview: Denny Zeitlin (Part 1)
Denny Zeitlin knows more about the jazz mind than anyone I know. Not only is Denny a brilliant jazz pianist, he's also a practicing psychiatrist. But Denny's medical profession hardly makes him a jazz dabbler. Among his compositions is the jazz standard Quiet Now, and his recordings for Columbia in the early 1960s dazzled Bill Evans. ...
