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Michael Musillami: Playscape Recordings Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

by Franz A. Matzner
October 27, 2004

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 ...

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Exclusive interview to Anna Maria Jopek. The Polish singer performed with Pat Metheny recording a great album...

October 27, 2004

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 ...

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Taylor Eigsti and the Prodigy Thing

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
October 22, 2004

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" ...

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Trumpeter John Swana

by Victor L. Schermer
October 20, 2004

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, ...

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Femi Kuti: Fight to Win

by Nenad Georgievski
October 20, 2004

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 ...

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Marshall Allen's Muse

by Clifford Allen
October 18, 2004

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 ...

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Mary Ellen Desmond and Meg Clifton: The Dynamic Philadelphia Songstress Duo

by Victor L. Schermer
October 16, 2004

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. ...

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Mulgrew Miller Returns To Boston For James Williams Tribute

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
October 14, 2004

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 ...

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Rebecca Martin: Here, the Same, But Different

by Phil DiPietro
October 11, 2004

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 ...

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Christian McBride: Bass Beautiful

by AAJ Staff
October 6, 2004

Christian McBride, the young and perhaps most exciting jazz bass player since Ray Brown, returned to his hometown of Philadelphia with his new band for an October 2nd concert at the Zellerbach Theatre on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Joining McBride will be Ron Blake, saxophones/flute; Geoffrey Keezer, piano; and Terreon Gully, drums. Mcbride has been ...