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Checking in with Chick
by Ty Cumbie
Like his hero Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea's presence in jazz is impossible to avoid. Anyone who takes interest in Miles Davis' fusion groups of the '70s is aware that Corea played on Davis' monumental 1969 record Bitches Brew. Avant-garde-ists interested in Anthony Braxton will be familiar with the '70s group Circle, with Corea, Dave Holland and ...
Michael Musillami: Playscape Recordings Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
by Franz A. Matzner
Guitarist Michael Musillami has been part of the jazz world for over forty years. Composer, player, and most recently label founder, Musillami has explored the full range of the jazz spectrum. Five years ago this month, Musillami took a leap of faith and put together a remarkable new label that has since proven ...
Exclusive interview to Anna Maria Jopek. The Polish singer performed with Pat Metheny recording a great album...
Anna Maria Jopek is a Polish musician strongly connected to the music of her country but highly influenced by sounds, harmonies, rhythms that come from the jazz world. She has increased her popularity also through a very good album recorded together with Pat Metheny (Upojenie). In this album Anna Maria performs several completely rearranged songs composed ...
Taylor Eigsti and the Prodigy Thing
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Why do some players have it, and others don't? Let's assume for the moment that it needs no definition--that we all recognize it when we hear it. We'll also set aside the tendency of the music business to elevate the less-talented and more photogenic, and the sad fact that not everyone who “makes it" ...
Trumpeter John Swana
by Victor L. Schermer
In addition to being one of the finest contemporary jazz trumpet players, John Swana is a human being who is spontaneously authentic and refuses to play a false role. Having reached the ripe old age of 38, John has performed side by side with many fabulous musicians, from Benny Golson to Tom Harrell, to Chris Potter, ...
Femi Kuti: Fight to Win
by Nenad Georgievski
Femi Anikulapo Kuti was born in London on 16 June 1962, but he grew up in the Nigerian capital Lagos. Femi developed a real passion for music in early life, and his father, the legendary sax-star Fela Kuti, taught his son to play almost as soon as he could walk and thus learning to play an ...
Marshall Allen's Muse
by Clifford Allen
Born May 25, 1924 in Louisville, KY, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen has been as much an institution of the Arkestra as Sun Ra himself. Joining the band in 1958 in Chicago, Allen became part of the most important saxophone section since Ellington's--for along with John Gilmore and Pat Patrick, Allen and the Arkestra offered an entirely ...
Mary Ellen Desmond and Meg Clifton: The Dynamic Philadelphia Songstress Duo
by Victor L. Schermer
In the jazz arena, as is all too often true in opera as well, vocalists, despite their sometimes fine voices and charisma, often lack true musicianship. This shortcoming is so pervasive, that we no longer expect such musical fine-tuning from them. Billie Holiday and the opera diva Beverly Sills were two great exceptions to the rule. ...
Mulgrew Miller Returns To Boston For James Williams Tribute
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Although Boston is not often associated with jazz, parts of the city have been infected with music's syncopating beat. Mulgrew Miller, jazz pianist and one-time Boston resident, returned last weekend to perform at a commemoration for his friend James Williams, a former Berklee College of Music instructor who passed away on July 20, 2004. Miller, a ...
Rebecca Martin: Here, the Same, But Different
by Phil DiPietro
Rebecca Martin's last recording, Middlehope, demonstrated conclusively that she is a unique interpreter of standards in intimate, beguiling, personal, enticing, sensual, captivating, alluring...absolutely enthralling... wonderful even... ways (see review ). One might assume, as does the first question in this interview, that her way with a chestnut probably got her signed to MAXJAZZ, a label with ...
