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Guillaume de Chassy: The Ugly and the Beautiful
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
February 2007, Paris: Pianist Guillaume de Chassy has just recorded his first solo piano album and he is performing an entirely solo set at the Archipel theater to celebrate its release. If he's nervous, it doesn't show; he jokes easily with the appreciative crowd, leading them through the by-ways of the musical journey that led him ...
Tierney Sutton: The Pursuit of Happiness
by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
Tierney Sutton having been nominated for a Grammy in 2005 for her work on I'm With the Band (Telarc, 2005), has achieved something truly groundbreaking and distinctive with her follow-up, On the Other Side (Telarc, 2007). It has been hailed by many as her best work, not only due to the musicianship, but also for the ...
Thirsty Ear's Peter Gordon Interviewed at AAJ
Peter Gordon is answering a lot of questions these days. His label, Thirsty Ear Records, is readying for the release of one of its most controversial records yet--and this is the same label that put out records by electronic innovators and hip hop heads DJ Spooky (Optomerty, 2002) and El-P (High Water, 2004) alongside the work ...
Peter Gordon: Innovation At All Costs
by James Taylor
Peter Gordon is answering a lot of questions these days. His label, Thirsty Ear Records, is readying for the release of one of its most controversial records yet--and this is the same label that put out records by electronic innovators and hip hop heads DJ Spooky (Optomerty, 2002) and El-P (High Water, 2004) alongside the work ...
The Legendary Joe Zawinul Interviewed at AAJ
"The music seemed fresh. If any of those bands stayed fresh, it was Weather Report, the band of the '70s and early '80s," says legendary keyboardist Joe Zawinul, co-founder, with Wayne Shorter, of the seminal fusion band that leaped to the forefront of the music during that time and hurled it around the globe, winning legions ...
Joe Zawinul: Still Stirring Up The Weather
by R.J. DeLuke
“The music seemed fresh. If any of those bands stayed fresh, it was Weather Report, the band of the '70s and early '80s, says legendary keyboardist Joe Zawinul, cofounder, with Wayne Shorter, of the seminal fusion band that leaped to the forefront of the music during that time and hurled it around the globe, winning legions ...
Intervista ad Arve Henriksen
by AAJ Italy Staff
All About Jazz: Il tuo modo di suonare la tromba ricorda quello del flauto giapponese shakuhachi, come sei arrivato a sviluppare questo tipo di suono? Arve Henriksen: Oh, è una storia lunga... tutto è cominciato quando studiavo al conservatorio di Trondheim, in Norvegia, dove ho conosciuto Niels Petter Molvær, il mio idolo di allora. Lui mi ...
Intervista a Marc Texier, direttore artistico del Festival Archipel
by AAJ Italy Staff
Archipel, rassegna ginevrina che giunge nel 2007 alla sedicesima edizione, si contraddistingue per il suo spirito di avventura a trecentosessanta gradi, che ha unito all’interesse per il gotha della creazione contemporanea (come Kurtág, Ligeti, Kagel, Berio, Ferneyhough, Stockhausen) un’attenzione spiccata verso le più intriganti alchimie escogitate nel campo dell’improvvisazione (Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, John Tilbury…), della ...
Steve Kuhn
by Suzanne Lorge
On March 27-30, 1986, Steve Kuhn played the Village Vanguard with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Al Foster. This noteworthy gig produced two live recordings, The Vanguard Date (Owl, 1986) and Life's Magic (Blackhawk, 1986). Twenty years later Kuhn reconvened the group for a four-night run in midtown, and the resultant live ...
Keyboard Wizard Scott Kinsey Interviewed at AAJ
It has taken fifteen years, but keyboardist Scott Kinsey's eagerly awaited debut recording as leader, Kinesthetics (Abstract Logix, 2006) is out and receiving rave reviews. Kinsey made his name in Tribal Tech, one of the most important bands in the electro/jazz-fusion scene of the last twenty-five years. Joining Tribal Tech straight out of Berklee, Kinsey remained ...
