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Singer/Harmonicist Tracy K Interviewed at AAJ
Born and raised on the prairies in the small farm community of Beausejour, Manitoba, just 45 minutes east of Winnipeg, Canada, Tracy K has been performing since she was a child. She recalls her first introduction to the blues and how she was introduced and drawn to the early recordings of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. ...
Tracy K: Canada's First Lady Of The Blues Harp
by David King
Born and raised on the prairies in the small farm community of Beausejour, Manitoba, just 45 minutes east of Winnipeg, Canada, Tracy K has been performing since she was a child. During the early sixties, when British rock groups stormed North American shores, she recalls her first introduction to the blues and how she was introduced ...
Drummer/Singer/Songwriter Brian Blade Interviewed at AAJ
Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...
Interview: Buddy Defranco on Tatum
On February 6, 1956, Art Tatum and Buddy DeFranco recorded together in Los Angeles with Red Callender on bass and Bill Douglass on drums. The session was for Norman Granz's Verve Records, one of several American Songbook sessions Granz had set up teaming Tatum with jazz greats of the period. The Tatum-DeFranco date is significant for ...
Notes from the Net: Grant Green Reissued, Russell Ferrante Interviewed, Plus News, Reviews, and More
Here's this week's compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* For our obligatory weekly Miles Davis-related links, there's a story in the San Jose ...
Brian Blade: Songs From His Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...
Singer/Songwriter Melody Gardot Interviewed at AAJ
Over the course of two much-lauded albums, singer/songwriter Melody Gardot has garnered a reputation many spent far longer to achieve. Still, it didn't come easily to Gardot, who never set pen to paper until an accident that almost left her in a wheelchair permanently. Still, adversity can provide the greatest source material for songwriting, and even ...
Melody Gardot: Perspective
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Sometimes life just has the overwhelming ability to throw some rough tests your way, and a person can find oneself dealing in silence with the aching certainty of an unfinished journey, where life seems to have ended with you and with all the marvelous possibilities that used to lie before your feet. This is as far ...
Susi Hyldgaard Interview - Heating It up for Housewives .
This interview is part of the book project Under your skin which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Zap Mama, Chuck D / Public enemy, Les Nubians, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Dj Vadim, Bob James, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Bill Frisell, Billy Bang, Kahil El'Zabar, Michael Ricci / Allaboutjazz.com, ...
Interview: Bret Primack (Part 2)
For years, Bret Primack has been pioneering a relatively new web format known as the jazz video podcast. For those who don't know what this term means, video podcasts are short clips that can be viewed on the web at any time. Whether print people like it or not, in the coming years video will play ...
