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Interview: Billy Joel (Part 1)
At about 12:45 pm yesterday, my office phone rang. When I answered it, a voice at the other end said, “Hi Marc? This is Billy Joel." A friend had told me he shared yesterday's post with the famed singer-songwriter in Miami and that Billy might call to talk about jazz and Just the Way You Are. ...
Singer Lola Danza Interviewed at AAJ
Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her approach to music before ...
Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...
Guitarist Derek Trucks Interviewed at AAJ
Over the past few years guitarist Derek Trucks has been on the cover of Down Beat and Rolling Stone; he's been profiled in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; he's toured with Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana; he's guested on recordings with J.J. Cale, Elvin Bishop, Buddy Guy, David Sanborn and Nashville dobro ...
Trombonist Steve Turre Interviewed at AAJ
Few can match Steve Turré's skill as a trombonist. His technical mastery, which has seen him win five Down Beat polls, goes hand-in-hand with a deep respect for the music that has gone before him, and over the course of forty years he has honed his skills with some of the best. Since his formative experience ...
Steve Turre: Shell 'n' 'Bone Man
by Ian Patterson
Few can match Steve Turré's skill as a trombonist. His technical mastery, which has seen him win five Down Beat polls, goes hand-in-hand with a deep respect for the music that has gone before him, and over the course of forty years he has honed his skills with some of the best. Since his formative experience ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 4)
Moving back to the U.S. from Europe in 1973, Phil Woods found himself a stranger in his own country. The economy had soured, and jazz was being squeezed out at clubs and record stores by folk, rock and soul. Discouraged, Phil planned to return to Paris. But just as he was set to depart, a lucky ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 3)
Phil Woods is known worldwide as a jazz headliner and leader with a powerful attack on the alto saxophone. He plays with every ounce of energy, as though it's his very last day on the job. And for reasons that probably have more to do with nature than logic, when Phil plays, the urgency in his ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 2)
Listen to virtually any Charlie Parker recording and it's immediately apparent why the alto saxophonist had such an enormous impact on jazz musicians coming of age in the early 1950s. But Parker's magnificent tone and improvisational skills were only half the story. As Phil Woods notes today, Parker's personality also had a profound impact on musicians, ...
