Results for "Interview"

Trombonist Josh Brown Interviewed at AAJ

August 12, 2008

For many school children, education begins by learning the “three R's": Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmatic. For young Canadian (now New York--based) trombone player Josh Brown, his music education (some of it within school walls--most of it outside of them) began by learning--and living--the “three P's": Practice, Pride and Passion. Brown has a lot to say on ...

Josh Brown: The Education Of A Jazz Trombonist

by Trish Richardson
August 12, 2008

For many school children, education begins by learning the “three R's": Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmatic. For young Canadian (now New York--based) trombone player Josh Brown, his music education (some of it within school walls--most of it outside of them) began by learning--and living--the “three P's": Practice, Pride and Passion. Brown has a lot to say on ...

Drummer Lenny White Interviewed at AAJ

August 11, 2008

Miles Davis kicked the fusion door open in 1969 and some people still haven't gotten over it. Among the future jazz star innovators on Bitches Brew (Columbia/Legacy, 1969) was an unknown eighteen year-old Tony Williams fanatic named Lenny White, who found his recording debut making history. Now an elder statesman at almost sixty, White maintains a ...

Lenny White: Just Doing It

by Rex Butters
August 11, 2008

Miles Davis kicked the fusion door open in 1969 and some people still haven't gotten over it. Among the future jazz star innovators on Bitches Brew (Columbia/Legacy, 1969) was an unknown eighteen year-old Tony Williams fanatic named Lenny White, who found his recording debut making history. Now an elder statesman at almost sixty, White maintains a ...

Marty Ashby Labeled Jazz Genius

August 10, 2008

Marty Ashby's career constantly twists and turns, but he never gets lost. “Like music, your work doesn't always go from A to B," says the executive producer at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in the North Side. “It doesn't always go in a straight line." Straight lines seem nonexistent in the work of this jazz musician and ...

Janis Ian Society's Child Interview

August 7, 2008

A talk with the singer-songwriter and author of a new memoir, Society's Child. Janis Ian's initiation into rock 'n' roll was early and dramatic. In 1966, at the age of 15, she recorded Society's Child, a song she'd written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and caused an immediate firestorm. Ian soon became ...

Jason Adasiewicz Interviewed on Chicago Public Radio

August 6, 2008

Singer/Songwriter Rigmor Gustafsson Interviewed at AAJ

August 5, 2008

Singer/songwriter Rigmor Gustafsson is perhaps best known for her vocal interpretations of other great singers, including Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach. Gustafsson's unique songwriting style has, however, garnered her accolades and top-ranking hits; she is the recipient of gold records in both Germany and Sweden. With Alone With You (ACT, 2008), Gustafsson showcases her amalgamated sound ...

Rigmor Gustafsson: Alone With the Music

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
August 5, 2008

Singer/songwriter Rigmor Gustafsson is perhaps best known for her vocal interpretations of other great singers, including Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach. Gustafsson's unique songwriting style has, however, garnered her accolades and top-ranking hits; she is the recipient of gold records in both Germany and Sweden. With Alone With You (ACT, 2008), Gustafsson showcases her amalgamated sound ...

Reedman James Carter Interviewed at AAJ

August 4, 2008

Multi-instrumentalist James Carter has always had eclectic tastes. That was evident on his debut, JC on the Set (Columbia, 1994), where the squeaks and blips linked him to the avant camp of Eric Dolphy and the tenor swoons nestled him comfortably within the traditional velvet of Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. Subsequent releases found him venturing ...