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Meet Derek Gordon
by AAJ Staff
Derek Gordon has just gotten onboard at Jazz at Lincoln Center as Executive Director. He comes in at a historical time.Gordon joins JALC after serving as Senior Vice President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - the nation's performing arts center - for over 12 years. He was responsible for ...
Brain Food: A Conversation with Hiromi Uehara
by Kevin T. Cox
Two hours prior to taking the stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, pianist Hiromi Uehara is relaxed and confident as she sits down to chat about her current tour and her latest album Brain. She is clearly very pleased with the critical acclaim her sophomore release has gained, and with her current trio, which features bassist ...
Frank Morgan
by Brandt Reiter
A young acolyte of Charlie Parker, the Minneapolis-born alto saxophonist Frank Morgan saw his first leader's disc, the eponymous Frank Morgan (GNP), released in 1955; three decades would pass until he cut his second. Much of the time in between--20 years, by his own estimation--was spent in prison, on various drug-related charges (unfortunately Morgan had absorbed ...
In the Blue Note backstage, Jazzitalia interviews Regina Carter, the Queen of violin...
"...growing up in the city that I grew up was a very effectively diverse city. So I was around many cultures of people without having to leave in the United States and being introduced into their music, into their culture, into their food and so, all was very attractive for me..." Click below to read the ...
New AAJ Interviews Section on Home Page
We've added a new section dedicated exclusively to our interviews on the All About Jazz home page. Located directly below the “Article Center" box, we'll provide links to our five most recently published interviews. And in case you missed our last announcement, find out how you can have new AAJ content delivered to your desktop each ...
Martin Speake: His Ideal
by John Kelman
Alto saxophonist Martin Speake may be well-known in his native England but a bit of a well-kept secret when it comes to exposure in North America, where he deserves a wider audience. With a sound that is influenced by artists as diverse as Ornette Coleman, Paul Motian, Keith Jarrett and Steve Coleman, and a compositional style ...
Myra Melford: Mystic Manifestations
by Franz A. Matzner
Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcome season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. The above lines are from the poem All the Hemispheres , by the Persian mystic poet, Hafiz. Though Myra Melford made no mention ...
Jim Rotondi: Trumpet Man Seeking New Pleasures
by C. Andrew Hovan
Part of a new breed of mainstream artists who have managed to carve a niche among the bustling and often overwhelming New York jazz scene, trumpeter Jim Rotondi has developed quite a resume working with a long list of jazz luminaries that happens to include Charles Earland, George Coleman, Mike LeDonne, and Cecil Payne. Part of ...
Aaron Zigman: The Making of a Hit Soundtrack, the Jazz Influence, and the "Inside Story" of Music for the Cinema
by Victor L. Schermer
Following the recent and very popular cinematic opening of Nick Cassavetes', “ The Notebook ," those who loved the film generally agreed that composer/arranger Aaron Zigman's musical score was outstanding. The film itself is a quintessential love story spanning over five decades, beautifully interwoven with subtle observations on youth and aging, with a delicate irony that ...
A Fireside Chat with The Vandermark 5
by AAJ Staff
Although The Vandermark 5 bears his name, Ken Vandermark is practical enough to realize V5's success should be credited to members Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler, and Dave Rempis. For it is their commitment and loyalty that allows V5 to be a seasoned quintet unlike any other in modern music. V5's popularity obscures musical genres, ...
