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Trumpeter Steven Bernstein Interviewed at AAJ
Trumpeter/composer/arranger Steven Bernstein may be the ultimate Downtown jazz personality. Certainly, he's one of the most ubiquitous and hard-working since he began playing in New York in the 1980s after relocating from California. Contributing Editor Paul Olson caught up with Bernstein for an in-depth interview that addresses, amongst other things, his two 2006 releases with his ...
Steven Bernstein: Proud Member of the Pre-Computer Absorption Generation
by Paul Olson
Trumpeter/composer/arranger Steven Bernstein may be the ultimate Downtown jazz personality. Certainly, he's one of the most ubiquitous and hard-working since he began playing in New York in the 1980s after relocating from California. In addition to playing with, well, everyone, he was a member of the 1990s edition of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and a co-leader ...
Dentro al "Nuovo Monastero" con Nels Cline
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dentro al Nuovo Monastero con Nels Cline Intervista di Rex Butters Nels Cline ha recentemente festeggiato il suo cinquantesimo compleanno con un concerto in compagnia del fratello gemello Alex al Cryptonight di Los Angeles - locale del produttore Jeff Gauthier, titolare dell'etichetta Cryptogramophone - dimostrando di essere in piena forma. Musicista eclettico, è capace di passare ...
Gunther Schuller: Heralding Charles Mingus
by Judith Insell
Gunther Schuller, one of jazz's foremost scholars, arrangers, composers and conductors, takes the stage with the Mingus Orchestra at New York's Merkin Hall this month. All About Jazz spoke with the octogenarian musical icon about his longstanding association with [bassist/composer] Charles Mingus and his travels through the jazz and classical music genres. All About ...
Erik Truffaz: Another Day Another Life
by Ian Patterson
Most musicians would be content with one successful band, but Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz is not the typical musician. Not content with leading two internationally acclaimed bands, he also finds time to collaborate with the likes of saxophonistsMichael Brecker and Joe Lovano, tablaist/producer Talvin Singh and trumpeter Jon Hassell. And if he's not playing a live ...
Bobby Hutcherson: Youthful Exuberance
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Watching vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson play his instrument is like dropping in on someone jiving with a dear old friend. He banters with the vibes as he plays, weaving his lanky body to the rhythm he's laying down. Suddenly he will frown down at the board, appearing to question its tone as though it were an insolent ...
Zetaboo: Ethnic Jazz from Finland
by Anthony Shaw
The release of the third album OuterRail (Aito, 2006) by the quirkily named Finnish band Zetaboo brings them into the limelight after a break of six years. Active pursuit of solo projects has not diminished the deep bonds that were established in the early 1990s, when all four were young musicians in Helsinki. In fact, during ...
Legendary Singer Helen Merrill Interviewed at AAJ
One of the most distinctive jazz singers ever, Helen Merrill started singing professionally sixty years ago when her warm voice paired with the Reggie Childs Orchestra in 1946. But that was just the start of a long and vivid story which would lead the talented young daughter of Croatian immigrants to make history in jazz by ...
Helen Merrill: 60 Years of Warm Sweet Songs
by Joao Moreira dos Santos
One of the most distinctive jazz singers ever, Helen Merrill started singing professionally sixty years ago when her warm voice paired with the Reggie Childs Orchestra in 1946. But that was just the start of a long and vivid story which would lead the talented young daughter of Croatian immigrants to make history in jazz by ...
Nils Petter Molvær: scheletri, campionamenti e filetti di pesce
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Paul Olson Non è esagerato rimarcare l'importanza del disco d'esordio di Nils Petter Molvær Khmer, realizzato per l'ECM nel 1997. Il trombettista-compositore norvegese era familiare all'etichetta di Manfred Eicher, visto che faceva parte dei Masqualero, che avevano registrato per l'ECM, e aveva preso parte a varie session di registrazione con altri artisti della casa ...
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