Results for "Interview"

Guitar Legend-in-the-Making Julian Lage Interviewed at AAJ

March 23, 2009

A documentary film made in 1996 centers on an eight year-old guitarist who is already a professional and how he mixes that life with everything else, like family and being a kid. At one point, he's shown playing the guitar behind his neck, a la Jimi Hendrix, adroitly picking a melodic line. At another, he lays ...

Julian Lage: Stepping Into the Limelight

by R.J. DeLuke
March 23, 2009

A documentary film made in 1996 centers on an eight year-old guitarist who is already a professional and how he mixes that life with everything else, like family and being a kid. At one point, he's shown playing the guitar behind his neck, a la Jimi Hendrix, adroitly picking a melodic line. At another, he lays ...

Intervista a Paal Nilssen-Love

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 23, 2009

Intervista di Lloyd Peterson Ha iniziato a suonare la batteria quando ancora non muoveva i primi passi; ha sconfitto un cancro maligno prima di compiere trent'anni; da tempo offre la propria energia propulsiva ad alcuni dei gruppi e musicisti più innovativi in circolazione (tra cui, Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad, Peter Brotzmann Tentet). Se ...

David Gilmore Interview

March 22, 2009

Greg Tate / Burnt Sugar Interview

March 22, 2009

Greg Tate/Burnt Sugar Interview - Sun Ra & Superheroes. Greg Tate/Burnt Sugar Interview - A village voice. This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which includes Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj ...

Chihiro Yamanaka Interview

March 19, 2009

Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 1)

March 18, 2009

Carol Sloane is easily the finest jazz singer of the post-jazz era. After getting her start in 1958 with the Larry Elgart Orchestra, Carol experienced a series of Cinderella breaks just as rock was beginning to yank the commercial rug out from under jazz. Had Carol been born five years earlier, she surely would be as ...

Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 3)

March 18, 2009

The early 1960s was a bleak period for new jazz singers like Carol Sloane. Between 1960 and the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, pop music surged in popularity. Weary of Tin Pan Alley standards, young adult record-buyers favored music that was simple and upbeat. And new. To fill 12-inch LPs, record company A&R executives reached ...

Russel Blake: Transcending Expectations

by Mikayla Gilbreath
March 17, 2009

Nearly everyone would agree that music is one of the most significant and enduring art forms ever created by mankind, though most people still view it primarily as entertainment. An astute few seem capable of looking beyond music's obvious entertainment value, and among these is bassist Russel Blake. He views music as both a tool for ...

Guitar Icon Jim Hall Interviewed at AAJ

March 16, 2009

There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...