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Stanton Moore: Living Outside the Box
by Renato Wardle
These days, it seems as if everyone is obsessed with the phrase, “thinking outside the box. Aside from being the most over-used phrase in marketing, it also happens to be the most misused phrase. Typically, it is applied to the antithesis of the idea, like a fastfood chain. When in comes to music, in these days ...
Gogol Bordello Singer Blasts Circus Cruelty in PETA2 Interview
Eugene Hütz Joins Effort to Help Pass Landmark Elephant-Protection Ordinance. Currently embarked on a dizzying 2-month international tour, Gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello vocalist Eugene Hütz recently took time out of his busy schedule to sit down for an exclusive interview with peta2—PETA’s youth division—during which he shared his thoughts about everything from music to his new ...
Jeff Richman: Solo Artist, Entrepreneur, or Chatterbox?
by Phil DiPietro
Guitarist Jeff Richman has worked in the highest echelons of electric jazz for the last two decades, distinguishing himself over a productive career that has spawned more than twelve solo titles and twice as many guest appearances. Recently, he's found a new niche; mastermind producer / arranger / player / instigator of the electric jazz tribute/compilation. ...
David Benoit: Orchestral Stories
by Woodrow Wilkins
David Benoit was in bed the morning of September 11, 2001, when he was stirred by a phone call from Japan. It was his mother-in-law. She sprung the news about the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. “I turned on the TV ...
Exclusive interview with the great jazz singer Jay Clayton...
"I saw Coltrane at a tiny bar in Cincinnati. The way he connected every note amazed me. And what Miles was doing was singing through the horn. It was the horn players who got inside my soul...You learn this music by osmosis. And the people who are less experienced learn from the people who are more ...
David Hazeltine: Modern Standards
by John Dworkin
David Hazeltine is now, and has been for over a decade, an omni-present force in the New York City straight-ahead jazz scene. Through the years, he's played piano and recorded with masters like Curtis Fuller, Jon Hendricks, Slide Hampton. Now with many recordings as a leader to his credit, he still plays many, many dates throughout ...
Giuseppe Continenza: Italian Bop Guitarist
by Phil DiPietro
I'm proud of my Italian-American heritage, but not because of bruschetta and olive oil. Some of the greatest bop guitarists ever are Italian-Americans: from Pat Martino to Joe Pass, Joe Diorio to Tommy Tedesco, or Jimmy Bruno to Gene Bertocini. So I decided to reach back to the mother land and track down a relatively new ...
TS Monk: His Father
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
TS Monk: His Father's Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
Charlie Hunter: Living the Music
by Paul Olson
Eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter has stunned audiences for years with his virtuosic ability to play simultaneous bass and guitar lines, sounding at times more like a Hammond organist than a guitarist. The Hammond sound's just one of Hunter's trademark tones, however, and his technical prowess shouldn't stand in the way of appreciating his considerable talents as ...
