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Guitarist John Abercrombie Interviewed at AAJ
John Abercrombie is the most important living jazz guitarist. That caught your attention, didn't it? Well, I'll insist it's true. No guitarist has a stronger recorded legacy than Abercrombie's. He moved to New York City in 1969 and immediately began carving out a reputation as a peerless, fearless player, doing road work with organist Johnny Hammond ...
John Abercrombie: All About the Sound
by Paul Olson
John Abercrombie is the most important living jazz guitarist. That caught your attention, didn't it? Well, I'll insist it's true. No guitarist has a stronger recorded legacy than Abercrombie's. He moved to New York City in 1969 and immediately began carving out a reputation as a peerless, fearless player, doing road work with organist ...
Meet Sam Newsome
by Steve Armour
Courage and vision in the creation of art are rarely rewarded commercially. Sam Newsome proved it does occasionally happen, though the outcome is never certain. After years spent developing a reputation as a first-rate tenor saxophonist alongside Terrance Blanchard, Donald Byrd and Lionel Hampton, Newsome gave up the tenor to concentrate exclusively on the soprano sax. ...
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa Interviewed at AAJ
While Bobby Jindal and Indra Nooyi are making Indian-Americans' presence felt in the corridors of political and corporate power in the US, another front seems ready to be claimed by them: the arts. And nothing represents the American arts like jazz. Despite being an international musical currency, jazz is still an unbroken American tradition and a ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Between Kadri and Coltrane
by Hemant Sareen
New York-based jazz saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa in conversation with Hemant Sareen. The interview appeared in the New Delhi-based men's magazine, M, March-April, 2007. While Bobby Jindal and Indra Nooyi are making Indian-Americans' presence felt in the corridors of political and corporate power in the US, another front seems ready to be claimed ...
Fiorenzo Sordini - Nella mia musica i volti e i suoni del mondo
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' un fiume di parole Fiorenzo Sordini. Impetuoso e in piena. Proprio come i tamburi e le percussioni che da anni - insieme all'inseparabile Enrico Fazio - sono il cuore pulsante dell'Art Studio e del Quartetto di Actis Dato. Si racconta il batterista torinese. Snocciola nomi, date, situazioni. Ricorda di quella volta negli anni '70 quando ...
Trombonist Ryan Keberle Interviewed at AAJ
Trombonist Ryan Keberle's debut CD, Double Quartet (Alternative Side, 2007), displays a facile and expressive instrumentalist with a sound and technique that is smoothly intoned and gregarious with an emphasis on creating strong melodic lines. He is also a musical thinker with a rapidly maturing compositional and arranging style. He currently performs with his own group, ...
Ryan Keberle: Something Speaking
by Ken Kase
Trombonist Ryan Keberle's debut CD, Double Quartet (Alternative Side, 2007), displays a facile and expressive instrumentalist with a sound and technique that is smoothly intoned and gregarious with an emphasis on creating strong melodic lines. He is also a musical thinker with a rapidly maturing compositional and arranging style.He currently performs with his own ...
Trombonist Rick Parker Interviewed at AAJ
All About Jazz founder/publisher Michael Ricci thought Rick Parker's second CD, Finding Space (WJF Records, 2006) was one of the best records of 2006. Parker is an energetic young musician and composer who also happens to play trombone. He's serious about writing his own music and finding his own way, even releasing his new album on ...
Rick Parker: Finding His Own Space
by Jason Crane
All About Jazz founder Michael Ricci thought Rick Parker's second CD, Finding Space (WJF Records, 2006) was one of the best records of 2006. Parker is an energetic young musician and composer who also happens to play trombone. He's serious about writing his own music and finding his own way, even releasing his new album on ...
