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Felix Stussi: Delivers
by Mary Ann Lacey
Félix Stüssi performed on piano accompanied by a five piece band at the Upstairs Jazz Bar in Montreal this past August, 2008. This performance was a CD launch for his second CD, Baiji (Justin Time, 2008). Félix Stüssi, the Swiss-born Montreal-based musician, is on a roll. Last year he won the coveted GM prize at the ...
Interview: Danny Bank on BG
Danny Bank is one of the most recorded baritone saxophonists in jazz history. According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, Danny has recorded on 416 sessions (studio and live dates). To give you an idea of how large a number that is, consider this: Gerry Mulligan recorded on 376, Count Basie's baritone saxophonist Charlie Fowlkes recorded on ...
Composer/Bandleader Darcy James Argue Interviewed at AAJ
Influenced by some of the best composers and arrangers around, composer/bandleader Darcy James Argue and his group, The Secret Society, are fast becoming not-so-secret. He's garnered critical praise from just about everyone who has heard the band. Like Maria Schneider, Argue does not play his instrument (piano), but leads the band with all-original music that has ...
Darcy James Argue: His Secret Society
by R.J. DeLuke
Ahhhh, to be young and in New York and have an 18-piece band of superb musicians at your disposal.OK. Now open your eyes and come to your senses. To operate a big band these days is a fiscal and organizational nightmare. But thankfully, there are people out there running fabulous organizations, like Sue Mingus ...
Guitarist Brad Shepik Interviewed at AAJ
Guitarist Brad Shepik is an artist with a conscience that extends to major global issues. A recently completed 12-part commission, Human Activity, addresses, in musical terms, the issue of global climate change. As diverse and multifaceted as both Shepik and the problem at hand are, it's a sweeping musical statement from an artist whose name continues ...
Brad Shepik: Sounding A Global Warming Warning
by Franz A. Matzner
As can only happen in New York, I stumbled upon guitarist Brad Shepik's portentous suite Human Activity entirely serendipitously. Visiting New York for the day on extra-musical business, the evening began as a step around the corner to the 55 Bar to sample whatever music was on tap and quickly transformed into a night of singularly ...
Interview: Loren Schoenberg on BG
Loren Schoenberg knows his Benny Goodman. As a tenor saxophonist, jazz writer and executive director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Loren, 50, wrote the extensive liner notes that accompany Mosaic's Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939-1958), a fabulous new seven-CD box set I reviewed yesterday. Loren also is an insider. Back ...
Ken Peplowski: Clarinet Conqueror
by Ken Dryden
Ken Peplowski has been a busy player on the jazz scene since joining the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (directed by Buddy Morrow) in 1978. A gifted clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, he met Sonny Stitt while still with the Dorsey band, ended up studying sax with him and landed a dream job playing in Benny Goodman's final orchestra ...
Interview: Benny Powell (Part 3)
Part 2 Easily, the most influential and widely imitated big band of the 1950s was Count Basie's “New Testament" orchestra. The impact that this band left on jazz, musicians, arrangers and popular music cannot be overstated. And the mere fact that Basie was able to take two completely different bands at two different points in his ...
