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Detroit JazzStage Podcast for interviews, album highlights, and music that celebrates the unique spirit of Detroit jazz
Detroit is a legendary jazz center where many significant jazz musicians were born, raised and educated in schools and jam sessions within the city limits. Detroit JazzStage is a monthly one hour podcast* celebrating that heritage by featuring musicians who represent the past, present, and future of Jazz in the Motor City. Join Jim Gallert and ...
Adam Unsworth: Defying Convention
by Ken Kase
With his debut CD, Excerpt This! (Self-Published, 2006). French hornist Adam Unsworth has shown himself to be unafraid of the conventional boundaries that exist between the jazz and classical worlds. A member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and faculty member at Temple University, his first recorded foray into jazz composition and performance brings a fresh voice to ...
Saxophonist Dave Rempis Interviewed at AAJ
Saxophonist Dave Rempis embodies all of the best qualities of the Chicago improvisational music scene: he's a gifted but disciplined player who knows his instruments inside and out; he's a fearless, imaginative improviser; and he uncomplainingly works his ass off. AAJ Contributing Editor Paul Olson took some time to speak with Rempis about his own projects, ...
Dave Rempis: Communication, Improvisation and No Screwing Around
by Paul Olson
Saxophonist Dave Rempis embodies all of the best qualities of the Chicago improvisational music scene: he's a gifted but disciplined player who knows his instruments inside and out; he's a fearless, imaginative improviser; and he uncomplainingly works his ass off.Although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophones, Rempis is best known as an altoist. ...
Steve Nelson: Vibing
by Russ Musto
Vibraphonist Steve Nelson began his career during the seventies, in his hometown of Pittsburgh, following the straight ahead path blazed by his first major influence, Milt Jackson. After a year with guitarist Grant Green he was playing and recording with his Rutgers professors James Spaulding and Kenny Barron, before landing a spot in David “Fathead" Newman's ...
Bojan Z Interviewed at AAJ
Serbian pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic (better known as Bojan Z) has been a part of the European jazz scene for over fifteen years, collaborating with artists including bassist Henri Texier and clarinetist Michel Portal. He's also led a number of projects on Label Bleu that include the multi-ethnic Koreni and, most recently, Xenophonia--his new piano trio record ...
Bojan Z: Stranger Sounds
by Ian Patterson
Did a B-52 full of Fender Rhodes really crash near a small Serbian village a quarter of a century ago? What's a Steinway full of holes doing at a jazz festival? What is the connection between Jim Hall and the Dixie Chicks? And just who would pay $6,000 for a bottle of wine? European Jazz Artist ...
Swiss Pianist/Composer Nik Baertsch Interviewed at AAJ
Swiss pianist/composer Nik Baertsch doesn't play pop, jazz or classical music - at least not in any conventional sense. With his two groups - Mobile and Ronin, the latter introduced to an international audience with its ECM debut Stoa, both play what Baertsch calls “ritual groove music" and it's as good a description as any for ...
Nik Bartsch: Commitment, Movement, and the Batman Spirit
by Paul Olson
Swiss composer/keyboardist Nik Bärtsch doesn't play jazz, pop, or classical music. Rather, he and his groups Mobile and Ronin play a remarkable synthesis of the above genres, and the result is something Bärtsch calls “ritual groove music." Although Bärtsch has been developing this music--and the elaborate aesthetic and philosophical aesthetic that support and surrounds ...
Dom Minasi Interviewed at AAJ
Since re-emerging from a nearly two-decade self-imposed moratorium on recording, left-of-center guitarist Dom Minasi is back with a vengeance, releasing a string of albums that has culminated in this year's ambitious The Vampire's Revenge--a sweeping double disc that, along with Minasi's distinctive playing, features a veritable who's who of the avant-jazz scene. Contributing Editor Paul Olson ...
