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Interview: Buddy de Franco, '43
In January 1943, Gene Krupa's 17-year-old band boy did something stupid. After receiving his draft notice, he decided that as a going-away present, he'd buy Krupa [pictured] a few joints. When he arrived at the theater in San Francisco where the Krupa band was playing, he handed Krupa his gift. The drummer placed the joints in ...
Interview: Buddy de Franco, Opus 1
There's a scene early in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) when Robert De Niro walks into a large dance club in Times Square on V-E Day prowling for a date. In the background, a big band is playing Opus One. As the camera pans the massive room on a boom, closing in on the ...
Tom Waits X Beck Hansen : PT. 1
Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction. For the first in this series of conversations, the legendary musician and performer, Tom Waits agreed lend an hour of his time to talk about anything and nothing in particular. In Part 1 of ...
Peter Nero: Fabled Pianist and Philly POPS Maestro
by Victor L. Schermer
Living legend Peter Nero is that rare musician equally at home with classical music, jazz, the American Songbook, the Broadway musical, movie themes and popular songs. Moreover, he is a masterful pianist, seasoned conductor, composer and arranger in all these genres. Just as exceptionally, he has become a cultural emblem, known to statesmen, entertainers, students, housewives ...
Steve Kuhn: Shimmering Beauty
by Maxwell Chandler
This interview was originally published on All About Jazz on March 2, 2009. Whether it is in his trio, collaborating with vocalists or accompanying an orchestra, pianist Steve Kuhn has always managed to effortlessly defy and combine genres. Whether it is an older recording or one of his newer albums, an inherent ability to ...
Omar Rodriguez Lopez: Genius Set Free
By: Kayceman Omar Rodriguez Lopez There will come a time, many many years from now, long after the dust has settled, when we look back at this point in music's vast history, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez will be left standing. There will be others for ...
Chembo Corniel: Wanting and Doing
While hanging out with Harry Sepulveda last week, I had to interrupt him mid-sentence. Pointing to the speakers high up on the walls of his Latin-jazz record store, I said, “Hold it, who's this playing?" “Ahhh, Papa, you dig?" Harry said. “It's Chembo Corniel. A monster." I wasn't aware of Chembo [pictured], who plays conga and ...
Tra rarità e futuro: alla Porter Records la musica creativa è di casa
by AAJ Italy Staff
Poche righe bastano, nel sito web dell'etichetta, per riassumere la filosofia della Porter Records: “creata per l'appassionato di musica che crede che si possa trovare ottima musica in ogni genere. Jazz, hip hop, elettronica, internazionale, sperimentale e inclassificabile, tutto trova casa alla Porter Records". Fondata da Luke Mosling e già con un catalogo piuttosto corposo per ...
Dave Holland: Consistently Exceptional
by R.J. DeLuke
This interview, originally published on September 29, 2008, is being reprinted to coincide with the summer 2009 tour of The Monterey Quartet featuring bassist Dave Holland, saxophonist Chris Potter, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and drummer Eric Harland. The group's live album, Live at the 2007 Jazz Festival (Concord, 2009), will be released on August 25.
Intervista a Nils Petter Molvaer
by AAJ Italy Staff
Vera icona della scena musicale scandinava contemporanea ha avuto l'opportunità di suonare fin dall'inizio della carriera, grazie all'originalità del suo suono, con Elvin Jones, George Russell, Gary Peacock, e raggiungere una prima notorietà poco più che ventenne: era l'inizio degli anni '80 e lui era il co-leader dei Masqualero insieme ad Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Tore ...
