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Michel Portal: Meanings, Feelings and Rivers
by Clifford Allen
Born in 1935 in Bayonne, France, reedman Michel Portal has the unique position of being one of the architects of modern European jazz and having a hand in some of the most significant shifts in modern classical music. Portal, along with pianist Francois Tusques, trumpeter Bernard Vitet, drummer Charles Saudrais and tenor man Barney Wilen, embraced ...
Vince The Prince Seneri Live Interview Tonight on WRTI + New CD Street Talk (Senful Records)
The Prince Of the Hammond B3 Organ Vince The Prince Seneri & Senful Records Are pleased to announce a Live Interview on WRTI 90.1 FM Tonight 9:30pm with Maureen Maloy Tune in on the Internet . www.wrti.org Celebrating the release of his new CD Street Talk (Senful Records) (in stores July 2005) Recorded at Bennett Studios, ...
Meet Yoko Miwa
by Ludwig vanTrikt
All About Jazz: For your American audience, please introduce yourself. Yoko Miwa: My name is Yoko Miwa. I am a jazz pianist born in Kobe, Japan, now living in Boston. I started taking piano lessons at the age of 4. My family was always very supportive of my interest in music. ...
Skatalites: The Best Music You Never Heard
by José Orozco
You might love the Skatalites without knowing who they are--the founders of ska, a kind of Jamaican jazz. They backed Bob Marley and Desmond Decker before they became the Skatalites. Born from mainly African-American influences, the band has gone on to pioneer the ska sound. Keyboardist/manager Ken Stewart and drummer Lloyd Knibb talked to All About ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Latitude
by John Kelman
Of the new wave of players that has emerged in the past decade including Adam Rogers, Jacob Young and Jeff Parker, the one most seen to be representing the future of jazz guitar is Kurt Rosenwinkel--a player who is rightfully taking his place alongside other significant contemporary figures like Pat Metheny, John Scofield, John Abercrombie and ...
Bill Hughes: Director of the Count Basie Orchestra
by Victor L. Schermer
The Count Basie Orchestra is a “big band phenomenon that has become a tradition. Their unique sound, combining blues and swing with an intensity and rhythm all their own, is and always has been immediately recognizable. For over half a century they have been generating thrills in concert halls, universities, nightclubs and festivals around the globe. ...
Assif Tsahar: Dissonance is Consonance
by Eyal Hareuveni
Israeli saxophonist Assif Tsahar is preparing for his return to New York, where has resided for the last fifteen years. Tsahar spent the last year touring in Europe and Israel with his musical partner Cooper-Moore, celebrating the release of their second collaboration as a duo, Tells Untold, and recording a new disc together.In his ...
Fred Anderson: On the Run
by Jeff Stockton
Tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson has seen it all in his 75-plus years. One of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the '60s, Anderson has been tireless in his mission to nurture young jazz talent in his hometown of Chicago, Ill.. With his first club in the '70s, The Birdhouse ...
IsWhat?!: Not to be Defined...
by AAJ Staff
Hyena Records, the newest baby of producer extraordinaire Joel Dorn, is quite obviously one of the most eclectic labels in music. Reissues of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Thelonious Monk catalog grab your attention at first, but any label that features records by both Bobby Darin and James “Blood Ulmer in the same catalogue is clearly open ...
Joe McPhee Interview
by Michael Anton Parker
This interview was originally published in August 2002. Joe McPhee is having a hard time believing the fact that he is a legend. But it's true, and there are a lot of awfully good reasons for it. First of all, that tone! How can one human being and a metal tube make those sounds? McPhee's horns ...
