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Pat Martino: Martino Unstrung
by Victor L. Schermer
A new documentary film about legendary guitarist Pat Martino, Martino Unstrung, focuses on his brain disease—AVM or arteriovenous malformation—emergency surgery, profound memory loss, and miraculous musical and personal recovery. It also presents intimate portraits of Martino, his music, his wife Ayako Akai, his friends across the decades, his family, and important locales in his life. It ...
Intervista a Giovanni Guidi
by AAJ Italy Staff
Giovanni Guidi è uno dei più interessanti pianisti jazz emersi di recente in Italia ed è balzato all'attenzione generale per aver vinto nel 2007 il premio della critica italiana nella categoria nuovi talenti. Nato a Foligno nel 1985, ha iniziato lo studio del pianoforte classico a dieci anni, per dedicarsi più tardi al jazz sotto la ...
Trombonist Benny Powell Interviewed at AAJ
Master trombonist, composer, occasional vocalist and actor, NEA Jazz Master Benny Powell was saluted in 2008 at the All Nite Soul at Saint Peter Church in New York, along with his fellow honoree, pianist Jane Jarvis. A working musician since his early teens in New Orleans and a veteran sideman on hundreds of recording sessions with ...
Benny Powell: Trombone Titan
by Andrew Velez
Master trombonist, composer, occasional vocalist and actor, NEA Jazz Master Benny Powell was saluted in 2008 at the All Nite Soul at Saint Peter Church in New York, along with his fellow honoree, pianist Jane Jarvis. A working musician since his early teens in New Orleans and a veteran sideman on hundreds of recording sessions with ...
New Book Collects Miles Davis Interviews
Legendary trumpeter and St. Louis area native Miles Davis is one of the most talked-about and written-about musicians of the late 20th century, and he's now the subject of yet another book, Miles on Miles, which collects 30 interviews from various periods of Davis' storied career.The blurb from publishers Lawrence Hill Books describes the ...
Bassist/Producer Tshaka Mayanja Interviewed at AAJ
'Jazz' and 'Uganda' are rarely used in the same sentence. This little country in East Africa does not have much of a jazz tradition to speak of, let alone write about. Aside from international artists, the likes of Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, as well as specially arranged cultural exchanges by the American, German and Dutch ...
Tshaka Mayanja: Chasing His Jazz Dream
by Philip Songa
'Jazz' and 'Uganda' are rarely used in the same sentence. This little country in East Africa does not have much of a jazz tradition to speak of, let alone write about. Aside from international artists, the likes of Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, as well as specially arranged cultural exchanges by the American, German and Dutch ...
Saxophonist Greg Osby Interviewed at AAJ...And More
For over two decades Greg Osby has been at the forefront of modern jazz. As a composer and player he breaks new ground, challenging audiences and the establishment with his complex, propulsive, and ever-evolving music. Never one to mince words, Osby has built a reputation as a blunt spokesman willing to tell it like it is, ...
Greg Osby: New Mission, New Label, New Responsibility
by Franz A. Matzner
For over two decades Greg Osby has been at the forefront of modern jazz. As a composer and player he breaks new ground, challenging audiences and the establishment with his complex, propulsive, and ever-evolving music. Never one to mince words, Osby has built a reputation as a blunt spokesman willing to tell it like ...
Trumpeter Randy Brecker Interviewed at AAJ...And More
"My father told me when I was five or six years old--he grabbed me and said, 'the trumpet is the greatest jazz instrument.' And I think he was right," says Randy Brecker, a trumpeter known the world over, it seems, regardless of the style of music he plays, inside and out of the jazz world. Brecker ...
