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James Carter: Something Old, Something New
by Matt Marshall
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 ...
Lennon Interview Turned Animated
I Met the Walrus In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan sneaked into John Lennon's hotel room with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and the idiosyncratic music titan was gracious enough to agree to a short interview. This film, I Met the Walrus, is the audio of that interview set stunningly to animation by Josh Raskin. The film ...
Intervista a Daniela Schächter
by AAJ Italy Staff
All About Jazz: Prima di dedicarti al jazz avevi studiato musica classica. Cosa ti ha portato all'improvvisazione? Daniela Schächter: Sono stata guidata dal desiderio di liberarmi degli schemi in musica. Il jazz mi ha attratto in quanto forma di arte improvvisata. Da bambina ho represso la mia musicalita' leggendo musica e evitando di suonare ad orecchio. ...
Bob Blumenthal: Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music
by Mikayla Gilbreath
Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music Bob Blumenthal Paperback; 192 pages ISBN: 0061241792 HarperCollins 2007 Since 1969, when he first began writing about jazz, Bob Blumenthal has become not only a highly acclaimed writer but also one ...
Junior Mance: Eighty Years Young
by Ken Dryden
Chicago native Junior Mance doesn't sound like a man approaching his 80th birthday. The pianist, who credits Gene Ammons, Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie with helping him grow as a musician, has led over 30 recordings of his own and made numerous appearances as a sideman during a lengthy career. An enthusiastic conversationalist with a great ...
Pianist Taylor Eigsti Interviewed at AAJ
Pianist Taylor Eigsti was last interviewed at AAJ in 2004, along with his mother, Nancy, about what it was like to be (and to raise) a prodigy. In the four years since then, Taylor's career has continued its nearly-vertical trajectory, with two Grammy nominations, two prestigious Piano Jazz shows with Marian McPartland, three jazz magazine covers, ...
Taylor Eigsti: The Prodigy, Revisited
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
In 2004, I interviewed both Taylor Eigsti and his mother, Nancy, about what it was like to be (and to raise) a prodigy. In the four years since then, Taylor's career has continued its nearly-vertical trajectory, with two Grammy nominations, two prestigious Piano Jazz shows with Marian McPartland, three jazz magazine covers, and multiple Down Beat ...
Pianist Geoffrey Keezer Interviewed at AAJ
Pianist/composer Geoffrey Keezer has been playing piano since age three and has been on the road since 1989 when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers after a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the years, he's recorded steadily and played with numerous jazz luminaries including Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman, Christian ...
Geoffrey Keezer: Making, And Controlling, His New Music
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist/composer Geoffrey Keezer has been playing piano since age three and has been on the road since 1989 when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers after a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the years, he's recorded steadily and played with numerous jazz luminaries including Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman, Christian ...
Saxophonist JD Allen Interviewed at AAJ
Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. JD Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, ...
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