Results for "Interview"

Bergonzi, Zenón and Marsalis new Interviews

August 8, 2005

Miss Justine: The Many Moods of a Philly Jazz Treasure

by Victor L. Schermer
August 4, 2005

Jazz vocalist Miss Justine (Justine Keeys) is a Philadelphia phenomenon. I first heard her sing several years ago, and was blown away by her unique mastery of the jazz idiom, so completely faithful to the music that it seems to run through her rather than be “performed in any artificial sense of that term. Thus, Justine ...

Walt Weiskopf: The New Mainstream

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 1, 2005

Despite the fact that his name doesn't show up on magazine polls and is equally scarce among those few jazz guide books on the market, make no mistake about the fact that Walt Weiskopf is easily one of the most mature and fully individualistic saxophonists and composers to come along in the last ten to fifteen ...

Drew Gress: Where My Ear Leads Me

by Paul Olson
July 22, 2005

WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=270>Bassist Drew Gress isn't the busiest bassist ever ("I don't think so, man. What about Ron Carter?, he asked me), but he's probably playing somewhere tonight. He's played as a sideman with Don Byron, Tim Berne, Marc Copland, John Hollenbeck and Uri Caine. But his three albums under his own name--Heyday (Soul Note, 1998), ...

Gary Bartz

by AAJ Staff
July 15, 2005

Gary Bartz has been active on the New York music scene and throughout the world since the '60s, working with such legends as Miles Davis and Art Blakey. To preface our interview, we began by a surprise phone call that I had arranged with Dr.Yusef Lateef, whom Mr.Bartz had not spoken with for some time. This ...

Vic Juris: Topflight Guitarist

by R.J. DeLuke
July 14, 2005

Vic Juris is a well known in the New York City area, and jazz circles in general, for his thoughtful musicianship, his broad stylistic range and the dexterity with which he handles his instrument, whether swinging madly or in a reflective pose. The fact that he can play very well in any mode, not just with ...

Sue Mingus: "First and Foremost a Composer"

by Paul Olson
July 12, 2005

Charles Mingus (1922-1979), one of the indisputable giants of jazz, left behind a huge body of composition that, in its breadth and excellence, can be compared only to the work of Duke Ellington--or, perhaps to no one save Mingus himself. Mingus' widow, Sue Mingus, has worked to keep Mingus' work heard (although she disclaims any great ...

Alaadeen Radio Interview Schedule

July 8, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kansas City USA -- With the July 26, 2005 release date for his lastest international release on 'Asr Records, Alaadeen will be conducting the following Jazz Radio Interviews with regard to his “New Africa Suite" CD. Listeners outside of the Kansas City area may tune into broadcasts via station ...

Tom Christensen: Outside the Comfort Zone

by Paul Olson
July 5, 2005

Reedsman Tom Christensen's third and newest CD, New York School, may be the best jazz album of the year, but he hasn't appeared out of nowhere; his years of sidework--for example, with the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra--and his two previous albums under his own name have steadily impressed people in the jazz world, converting them to ...

Michel Portal: Meanings, Feelings and Rivers

by Clifford Allen
July 1, 2005

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 ...