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Keiko Matsui: Heart & Soul
by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
Moyo, Swahili for “heart and soul, is an inspirational release from keyboardist Keiko Matsui. It was recorded on location in South Africa with musicians including Gerald Albright, Paul Taylor, Richard Bona, Akira Jimbo and Waldemar Bastos. The album is a melodic work of art, in which she allows the listener into her experiences, those which she ...
Singer Patti Austin Interviewed at AAJ
Patti Austin began her incandescent career at the age of four. The daughter of trombonist Gordon Austin, and goddaughter of Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington, has emerged stronger than ever. After a bout with diabetes, she decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery and the result has been remarkable. She is in superb form both physically and ...
Patti Austin: Avant Gershwin
by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
Patti Austin began her incandescent career at the age of four. The daughter of trombonist Gordon Austin, and goddaughter of Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington, has emerged stronger than ever. After a bout with diabetes, she decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery and the result has been remarkable. She is in superb form, both physically and ...
Keyboardist George Colligan Interviewed at AAJ
Although George Colligan is a wildly in-demand musician whose piano, organ and Fender Rhodes have graced the recordings and performances of clarinetist Don Byron, bassist Buster Williams, vocalist Cassandra Wilson, and many other artists, he's also managed to produce a pretty sizable discography as a band leader. While his chops and imagination--coupled with a consistent clarity ...
George Colligan: Variety, Presentation and Doing It Because It's Fun
by Paul Olson
Although George Colligan is a wildly in-demand musician whose piano, organ and Fender Rhodes have graced the recordings and performances of clarinetist Don Byron, bassist Buster Williams, vocalist Cassandra Wilson, and many other artists, he's also managed to produce a pretty sizable discography as a band leader. While his chops and imagination--coupled with a consistent clarity ...
Joe DeRenzo: On the Comeback
by Walter Kolosky
You might say that jazz drummer Joe DeRenzo has a history of vocational commitment problems. After all, he has successfully pursued several careers and then abruptly left them behind. He was an up-and-coming pro drummer in fusion's heyday. He then left the music business to become an actor and was once offered help by a future ...
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum Interviewed at AAJ
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is at the forefront of a younger generation of creative musicians in New York. He combines thrilling improvisation with stealthy composition, unconfined by genre. Best known for his association with Anthony Braxton, Bynum has played a leading role in the realization of the saxophonist's recent oeuvre. There has been a deserved upsurge ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: Spontaneous Yet Focused
by John Sharpe
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is at the forefront of a younger generation of creative musicians in New York. He combines thrilling improvisation with stealthy composition, unconfined by genre. Best known for his association with Anthony Braxton, Bynum has played a leading role in the realization of the saxophonist's recent oeuvre. There has been a deserved upsurge ...
Eugene Chadbourne: Beauty Out of Chaos
by Kurt Gottschalk
Over more than thirty years of a seemingly endless variety of recordings and playing situations, Eugene Chadbourne has made himself into about as eclectic a performer as you could ask for. In addition to his own composing and improvising, he's devoted entire albums to the music of such artists as Albert Ayler, J.S. Bach, Jimi Hendrix ...
Dialogando di "musica leggiadra" con Letizia Renzini
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chiacchierata a viso aperto con la musicista Letizia Renzini, in occasione dell'uscita del suo nuovo disco con Lorenzo Brusci. L'uscita di Musica Leggiadra, il nuovo disco di Letizia Renzini e Lorenzo Brusci, si presentava come il classico “crossroads" della tradizione, di quelli in cui il diavolo, disegnando pigramente accordi sulla sua chitarra, è pronto a proporti ...
