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Guitarist Jamie Fox Interviewed at AAJ
Jamie Fox's path to recording his first album as a leader has been anything but mundane. Growing up listening to, well, just about everything, Fox began his career as a musician in San Francisco. There he followed his eclectic ear to playing gigs with such diverse names as Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John, Joan Baez, and ...
Jamie Fox: My Long, Strange Trip
by David Miller
Jamie Fox's path to recording his first album as a leader has been anything but mundane. Growing up listening to, well, just about everything, Fox began his career as a musician in San Francisco. There he followed his eclectic ear to playing gigs with such diverse names as Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John, Joan Baez, and ...
I mondi sonori di Gaspare de Vito
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nato a Napoli nel 1978, Gaspare de Vito è una figura tutto sommato anomala nel panorama dei giovani improvvisatori di casa nostra. Musicista curioso e certamente attratto dalle possibilità che stanno dietro i margini dei suoni, ha percorso coraggiosamente il proprio apprendistato seguendo modelli non facili, trovando poi nel contatto con musicisti di altre culture e ...
Billy Kilson: Billy's Groove
by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
The Berklee educated, innovative drummer Billy Kilson may have started out playing the trumpet and trombone, but playing the drums was certainly his calling. The virtuoso performer, who has toured with such famed musicians as George Duke, Diane Reeves and has been a part of Chris Botti's band for the past four years, is known as ...
Saskia Laroo: Lady Miles
by Gina Vodegel
A new album will hit the streets on March 15. Her name garners respect and admiration. Trumpeter Saskia Laroo, also referred to as a trumpet stylist, has been performing more than three decades on various stages across the globe. We had agreed on an interview for AAJ in 2006, but somehow timetables didn't match up. A ...
Marco Benevento: A New Form of Fusion
by James Taylor
With his work has one-half of the Benevento-Russo Duo, Marco Benevento has helped fuse elements of indie rock, improv jazz and jam band aesthetic, exciting nationwide audiences in clean concert halls, smoky bars, and muddy, open-air festivals like Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Benevento is a student of the piano, trained at Berklee School of Music, ...
Multi-Instrumentalist Dana Leong Interviewed at AAJ
Whether on the cello, trombone or laptop, whether playing straight-up jazz, classical, or the many hybrid concoctions his work has already produced, Dana Leong seems to acknowledge no boundaries. He has worked with a wide range of players, holds down the cello chair for the Paquito D'Rivera trio, has just released a second album fusing jazz ...
Dana Leong: No Boundaries
by Franz A. Matzner
Whether on the cello, trombone or laptop, whether playing straight-up jazz, classical, or the many hybrid concoctions his work has already produced, Dana Leong seems to acknowledge no boundaries. He has worked with a wide range of players, holds down the cello chair for the Paquito D'Rivera trio, has just released a second album fusing jazz ...
David Liebman /Jim Ridl: The Creative Process in Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
The idea for this interview came to me when I became aware of two aspects of jazz as a creative, artistic process. First, unlike most other art forms, jazz creativity emerges directly in performance through improvisation. Every jazz performance is unique and comes together in real time while it is being played. Each moment is an ...
Intervista con Paolo Angeli
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prodigio della chitarra sarda preparata con cui si esibisce abitualmente dal vivo e visionario creativo dell'avantgarde-jazz, Paolo Angeli ha raggiunto una maturità ormai indiscutibile sviluppando uno stile così personale da costituire quasi un genere musicale a sé stante che coniuga tradizione sarda, canto in Re, pratiche improvvisative, la passione per Fred Frith e Bjork con uno ...
