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A Fireside Chat with Dave Burrell
by AAJ Staff
While his serendipitous participation in Algiers' Pan-African Festival and the infamous BYG sessions with Archie Shepp and Grachan Moncur III that followed gave him underground street credit, it was his audible awareness of the music's history that has endeared Dave Burrell to the revolution. Stigmatized as “avant-garde" by the misinformed, there is as much Ellington and ...
A Fireside Chat with Phil Ranelin
by AAJ Staff
Loyalty and Los Angeles are seldom companions. However, Phil Ranelin's loyalty to the City of Angels is not confined to a championship banner. His fidelity can be measured by his acute sense of brotherhood and community. Actively involved in contributing to the tradition, Ranelin's life mirrors his music, principled, cultivated, and perpetually progressive. All About Jazz: ...
A Fireside Chat with Don Byron
by AAJ Staff
Limited for being outspoken, Don Byron rejects media propaganda. Whether his critical disregard has impaired his capacity for audience awareness remains to be seen. What is apparent, however, is that Byron is an exceptional technician on his instruments and his music, as the man behind it, continues to evolve. All About Jazz: Let's start ...
My Conversation with Don Byron
by AAJ Staff
Boy, this interview sure was fun. I find most writers tend to take themselves too seriously too often and Don Byron can sense that and jumps all over it. I have no problem admitting that Byron worked me over pretty damn good. Midway through our half hour conversation, I could feel the air being sucked out ...
Meet Oliver Lake
by Craig Jolley
St. Louis musical rootsMy mother owned a restaurant with a juke box that had a lot of blues, rhythm and blues. That may have piqued my interest. When I was in high school I got interested in the drum and bugle corps. A lot of members of the corps were playing jazz. That really ...
Oliver Lake: Jazz is a Music of Exploration
by Nenad Georgievski
Not too many artists today can encompass so many different interests and musical styles within their work as is the case with Oliver Lake. He is a poet, painter, performance artist and also one of the better-known representatives of modern jazz. As a musician, he started his career in the 60's as part of the Black ...
Matthias Lupri: Shadow of the Vibe
by John Kelman
While vibraphonist Matthias Lupri is a relative newcomer to his chosen instrument he has managed, in the space of only few short years, to emerge as an artist who is garnering increasing respect, not only as a player, but as a writer as well. With four albums under his belt, including the recently-released Transition Sonic, Lupri ...
Joshua Redman: Music is Paramount
by R.J. DeLuke
It can be a burden, an unfair one at that, when jazz musicians are anointed as being among those to “carry the torch" into the future, to sustain and revitalize the music. Jazz music evolves, as it always has, like the ocean moves. The innovators and creators come and go, blessing the planet and leaving things ...
David Sanchez: A Candid Look at Music and Business Part 2-2
by Matt Merewitz
Part 1 | Part 2 It's hard to gauge what the jazz community knows about saxophonist David Sanchez. If you have BET Jazz, you may have seen him on those corny interludes - “How did you discover your sense of jazz?" Albeit, a lot of people I've talked to, know very little about Sanchez. “Go look ...
David Sanchez: A Candid Look at Music and Business, Part 1 of 2
by Matt Merewitz
Part 1 | Part 2 It's hard to gauge what the jazz community knows about saxophonist David Sanchez. If you have BET Jazz, you may have seen him on those corny interludes - “How did you discover your sense of jazz?" Albeit, a lot of people I've talked to, know very little about Sanchez. “Go look ...
