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Kenny Rankin: From the Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
Kenny Rankin died of lung cancer on June 7th, 2009. This interview was conducted in July 2002. He sings with a fluid ease, whether it's a standard like “The Very Thought of You," the Beatles “Blackbird," a Latin-flavored “Berimbau," or his own “In the Name of Love." His soft voice caresses the most ...
Interview: Dave Pell (Part 1)
Dave Pell is one of the founding fathers of West Coast jazz. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1944, Pell played on Bob Crosby's radio show and freelanced, joining Les Brown's band in 1947. In the years that followed Dave became one of California's most prolific studio musicians and ensemble leaders, forming a popular octet from ...
Pianist Ran Blake Interviewed at AAJ
If you close your eyes while listening to Ran Blake's Driftwoods (Tompkins Square, 2009), you may find yourself transported into the grainy, low-key black and white world of a 1940s or '50s classic noir film. Try to leave the theater and something quietly, without much fanfare draws you back into the story. This is the music ...
Ran Blake: Lurking in the Shadows
by Tod Smith
If you close your eyes while listening to Ran Blake's Driftwoods (Tompkins Square, 2009), you may find yourself transported into the grainy, low-key black and white world of a 1940s or '50s classic noir film. Try to leave the theater and something quietly, without much fanfare draws you back into the story. This is the music ...
Joni on Point Interview with Joni Mitchell
With her provocative ballet, The Fiddle and the Drum, Mitchell finds a new grooveand a new lens on her past Though her 1968 debut album, Song to a Seagull, was no small feat of folk glory, it was by Joni Mitchells third and fourth releasesLadies of the Canyon and Bluethat her status as one of the ...
Interview: Hank O'Neal (Part 2)
Hank O'Neal is a jazz entrepreneur and bohemian--a rare combination. Over the years, Hank has been a jazz record producer and concert promoter, and he continues to serve on the boards of several major organizations. To satisfy his soul, he has devoted much of his life to the arts. Hank is a prolific photographer, writer and ...
Interview: Hank O'Neal (Part 1)
If you know Hank O'Neal, you're lucky. Hank is among the most powerful and prudent behind-the-scenes forces in jazz today, and certainly one of the most creative and prolific. A photographer and author of more than a half dozen books on jazz and photography, Hank also has produced more than 100 jazz festivals and is founder ...
Photostory2: Miles Davis
Last week I started a new series called “PhotoStory," in which I feature an iconic jazz photo and invite the photographer to relate what happened the moment the shutter came down on the image. The shaky photo of Miles Davis you see above was taken by Sal Criscillo, a photographer from New Zealand whose color work ...
Bassist Daphna Sadeh Interviewed at AAJ
It's to her credit that Israeli-born composer and double bassist Daphna Sadeh has embraced the vibrant multi-culturalism of the great melting pot of Israel to be the defining character of her music. Her openness to all cultures and a brighter future shines through the beautiful music she creates with The Voyagers. Now based in the UK, ...
