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American Voices Founder John Ferguson Interviewed at AAJ
From Afghanistan and Albania, to Venezuela and Vietnam, American Voices founder John Ferguson has brought American music, including jazz and blues, to almost every corner of the world, including 79 countries on five continents. And after traveling back and forth across the globe, what Ferguson is looking for next is simply the latest place where listeners ...
John Ferguson on American Voices: Musical Diplomacy
by Franz A. Matzner
From Afghanistan and Albania, to Venezuela and Vietnam, American Voices founder John Ferguson has brought American music, including jazz and blues, to almost every corner of the world, including 79 countries on five continents. And after traveling back and forth across the globe, what Ferguson is looking for next is simply the latest place where listeners ...
Pianist Anat Fort Interviewed at AAJ
While her discography as a leader consisted, until this year, of only one self-released album (Peel, 1999), New York-based, Israeli-born composer/pianist Anat Fort has been working steadily for years. Few contemporary jazz pianists have as graceful and developed a playing style as Fort--her use of rests, her love of space, and her classically-imbued phrasing are, once ...
Anat Fort: Swimming in a Sea of Motian
by Paul Olson
While her discography as a leader consisted, until this year, of only one self-released album (Peel, 1999), New York-based, Israeli-born composer/pianist Anat Fort has been working steadily for years. Few contemporary jazz pianists have as graceful and developed a playing style as Fort--her use of rests, her love of space, and her classically-imbued phrasing are, once ...
Il tempo di Scelsi - Intervista a Nicola Sani, Presidente della Fondazione Isabella Scelsi.
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Fondazione Isabella Scelsi fu costituita il 21 gennaio 1987 da Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi, Conte d'Ayala Valva (1905-1988), con lo scopo di promuovere la nuova musica, ed in particolare lo studio e la diffusione delle proprie opere. La sede dell'istituzione è l'abitazione romana in cui il compositore visse durante gli ultimi venti anni della sua ...
Bassist Avishai Cohen Interviewed at AAJ
Avishai Cohen is the sound of a new generation of bass prodigies, and his talent is a force to be reckoned with in the world of jazz. The New Yorker has affirmed him to be “one of the most gifted bassists of his generation who is finding his own voice as a composer." His vision knows ...
Avishai Cohen: As Is
by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
Avishai Cohen is the sound of a new generation of bass prodigies, and his talent is a force to be reckoned with in the world of jazz. The New Yorker has affirmed him to be “one of the most gifted bassists of his generation who is finding his own voice as a composer. His vision knows ...
Charles McPherson: Passionate Bopper
by Ken Dryden
Charles McPherson, one of many artists inspired by Charlie Parker, has been a professional jazz musician for nearly a half-century. Growing up in Detroit, he played in his school band and studied with pianist Barry Harris. Soon after he left for New York City, McPherson joined Charles Mingus' band and recorded with the bassist on numerous ...
Drummer Alvin Fielder Interviewed at AAJ
Drummer Alvin Fielder grew up in Mississippi, but the fruition of his musical career in Chicago came in the 1960s, when he worked with Sun Ra and appeared on Roscoe Mitchell's legendary Sound (Delmark, 1966) LP, one of the first AACM recordings to be released. After returning to a pharmacy career in Mississippi in the late ...
Alvin Fielder: It's About Time
by Clifford Allen
Drummer Alvin Fielder grew up in Mississippi, but the fruition of his musical career in Chicago came in the 1960s, when he worked with Sun Ra and appeared on Roscoe Mitchell's legendary Sound (Delmark, 1966) LP, one of the first AACM recordings to be released. After returning to a pharmacy career in Mississippi in the late ...
