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Pianist Lucian Ban Interviewed at AAJ

December 18, 2007

One of the most creative new musicians on the New York City scene, Lucian Ban is a Transylvanian pianist and composer whose collaborations with fellow NYC jazzers continue to produce a burgeoning collection of original music. Recordings with Bob Stewart, Alex Harding, and Jorge Sylvester highlight Lucian's prodigious recent output, a body of work that includes ...

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Lucian Ban: Transylvania's Rhapsody in Blue

by Jason West
December 18, 2007

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Bassist Chris Tarry Interviewed at AAJ

December 17, 2007

Why would a very successful musician throw his career away to become just another bass player in New York City? Chris Tarry didn't exactly throw his career away. But the Calgary-born, Vancouver-based Tarry was certainly one of the most celebrated bassists in Canada. As a solo artist and one-fourth of the fusion super group Metalwood, Tarry ...

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Chris Tarry: New Challenges, New Influences, New York

by Paul Olson
December 17, 2007

Why would a very successful musician throw his career away to become just another bassist in New York City?Well, Chris Tarry didn't exactly throw his career away. But the Calgary-born, Vancouver-based Tarry was certainly one of the most celebrated bassists in Canada. As a solo artist and one-fourth of the fusion super group Metalwood, ...

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Zan Stewart: Jazz Advocate

by David A. Orthmann
December 13, 2007

For the last five years, Zan Stewart has been the voice of New Jersey jazz. A tenor saxophonist who occasionally plays in local clubs, Stewart, who has also written for the Los Angeles Times, appears several times a week in the Newark Star-Ledger, the Garden State's largest newspaper. He reviews performances in a variety of Jersey ...

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Saxophonist Charles McPherson Interviewed at AAJ

December 12, 2007

Having started his professional career at the age of nineteen, alto saxophonist Charles McPherson found himself working with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1972, while also recording for the Prestige label under his own name. Always inspired by Charlie Parker, but far more than just an acolyte, he has kept the bop fires blazing with his ...

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Charles McPherson: Keeping the Faith

by Maxwell Chandler
December 12, 2007

Having started his professional career at the age of nineteen, alto saxophonist Charles McPherson found himself working with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1972, while also recording for the Prestige label under his own name.Always inspired by Charlie Parker, but far more than just an acolyte, he has kept the bop fires blazing with ...

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AMM Percussionist/Co-Founder Eddie Prevost Interviewed at AAJ

December 11, 2007

Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prvost has spent a career devoted to the outer reaches of the music. In the forty-odd years he's been musically active he has been a key member of the free improvisation group AMM as well as a band leader in his own right, leading units dedicated to mining a musical seam closer ...

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Eddie Prevost: Out On The Free

by Nic Jones
December 11, 2007

Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prévost has spent a career devoted to the outer reaches of the music. In the forty-odd years he's been musically active he has been a key member of the free improvisation group AMM as well as a band leader in his own right, leading units dedicated to mining a musical seam closer ...

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Guitarist John Scofield Interviewed at AAJ

December 10, 2007

Guitarist John Scofield is an unassuming chap, seemingly at ease with himself and most things around him. He's ever congenial. Clever and well-grounded. Catch him wearing spectacles, and his look is professorial. But don't, for a minute, think Scofield isn't serious about music. The status he's achieved in the music world was accomplished with hard work, ...