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Intervista a Stefano Pastor
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dalla musica classica all'improvvisazione jazz passando per la musica italiana, questo è l'inusuale percorso artistico del violinista genovese Stefano Pastor. Dopo l'esordio con Una notte italiana è da poco uscito Transmutations per la casa discografica inglese Slam Records, un disco in cui Pastor ha ripescato composizioni di Ornette Coleman e John Coltrane rivelandosi come un musicista ...
Harold Mabern: Blessed
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Harold Mabern, one of jazz's most enduring and dazzlingly skilled pianists, was born in Memphis, a city that produced saxophonists George Coleman and Charles Lloyd, trumpeter Booker Little and pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. Mabern started out as a drummer but, under Newborn's influence, switched to piano. During his over half-century on the scene as sideman and ...
Portland Jazz Festival Artistic Director Bill Royston Interviewed at AAJ
Through the introduction of a signature theme each year, educational streams and a philosophy that balances international and local artists, the four year-old Portland Jazz Festival is already distinguishing itself amongst the plethora of festivals that take place each year. Artistic Director Bill Royston is largely responsible for this unique vision, one that views a festival's ...
Bill Royston: Bringing ECM to the American Northwest
by John Kelman
Now entering its fourth year, the Portland Jazz Festival has already established itself as an event with a difference. While most festivals take place in the summer, it's held in mid-February, when most artists are not on the road and most vacationers are thinking about heading south for a little sun and sand rather than the ...
Interview with Clarinettist Mort Weiss at AAJ
Mort Weiss is a West Coast clarinet player who, over the last few years, has produced some bitchin' recordings, exhibiting a biting, aggressive tone and spirit of adventure that is opening eyes and ears. He's 71 and has only been on the scene for about five years, but two of his latest discs, The B3 and ...
Mort Weiss: Sets Sail With Clarinet
by R.J. DeLuke
The world of jazz seems to be ever changing. It accepts change, with new modes of expression, new influences, new players spawned from the long lineage of musicians who created and followed an fused the great American art form over the last century But some things don't change, and one of those is that ...
New Mark Egan Interview at Abstract Logix
By Souvik Dutta One of the premier electric bassists of contemporary jazz, Mark Egan has distinguished himself as an in-demand session player, valued sideman and respected leader in his own right. His distinctive fretless bass sound has graced countless jazz and pop albums as well as award winning movie and television soundtracks. A charter member of ...
Guitar Icon Pat Metheny Interviewed at AAJ
Through the course of a career that now exceeds thirty years in the limelight, guitarist Pat Metheny has never ceased to surprise. No matter the context within which he chooses to play--his flagship Pat Metheny Group, in a trio, as a collaborator with figures including bassist Charlie Haden or as a guest in large projects such ...
Pat Metheny: Another Phase Dance
by Doug Collette
Through the course of a career that now exceeds thirty years in the limelight, guitarist Pat Metheny has never ceased to surprise. No matter the context within which he chooses to play—his flagship Pat Metheny Group, in a trio, as a collaborator with figures including bassist Charlie Haden or as a guest in large projects such ...
Oboist Kyle Bruckmann Interviewed at AAJ
Anyone who has heard intrepid oboist Kyle Bruckmann would not be surprised to hear he recently recorded some tracks with experimental metal act Oxbow. Nor that, in order to make a living he works as an orchestral musician. Anyone who hasn't heard his own records (including his latest, Intents and Purposes) and is of an adventurous ...
