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Patricia Barber: Complete; Not Complacent
by R.J. DeLuke
It's good to be Patricia Barber these days. The singer/pianist with the deep, winsome voice admittedly in a good place, getting gigs, getting recognition, amassing a following that, while not Diana Krall-ish in number, is strong and growing. And she's about to release a new CD on Blue Note, comprised of virtually all original music (one ...
Bill Carrothers: Content in his Corner of the Jazz World
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist Bill Carrothers is a realist.Don't look for him to pine away for the “good old days" in jazz. Those are days he never saw anyway. Only 34, he grew up outside Minneapolis, Minn., with rock music and the period that punished us with Disco. Don't expect him to foretell the next great wave ...
David Sanchez and His Universe
by R.J. DeLuke
David Sanchez, the percussive saxophonist, hails from Puerto Rico, and brings with him the Latin rhythms one might associate with that background. But he steams ahead in the mainstream as well, having had his life altered when his sister came home with a Miles Davis album featuring John Coltrane. He's also studied with the likes of ...
Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World
by Clifford Allen
Born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden came up in a musical family. After moving around the Midwest, he eventually settled in Los Angeles playing bass with Hampton Hawes, Elmo Hope, and Paul Bley. A fateful meeting in 1958 with Ornette Coleman netted Haden one of his most infamous gigs, which continued with brief ...
A Fireside Chat With Bill Cunliffe
by AAJ Staff
There is a tendency to be indifferent to the familiar -an absence of appreciation with an assumption of the routine. But there is a wisdom in nothing lasts forever. So perhaps, it would behoove us to be grateful that we have musicians locally like Bill Cunliffe (unedited and in his own words), who too yearns for ...
Wynton Marsalis Speaks Out
by Franz A. Matzner
Trumpeter, composer, educator--Wynton Marsalis requires no introduction. Since beginning his career, he has received an almost endless stream of accolades, his share of criticisms, and an ever-growing level of recognition from within and without the jazz community. The first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, Mr. Marsalis has also garnered ...
A Fireside Chat With Dave Douglas (2004)
by AAJ Staff
With age, I have adopted the position of respecting two levels of music--good and bad. Miles Davis updated his music with the times (explaining, “I have to change. It's a curse."). Similarly, Dave Douglas has done the same. And although hasty comparisons depreciate both, their legacies can be summarized as good and bad. While Douglas (unedited ...
Jim Ridl: Door Openings
by Victor L. Schermer
Pianist Jim Ridl is emerging as an innovative force in jazz, a pianist of the highest caliber, a creative composer and improviser, and one of those rare musicians who stretches the art form even as he honors the established traditions. Technically and improvisationally formidable in performance and recordings, he is equally comfortable with his own groups ...
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez : One Size Fits All
by R.J. DeLuke
Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez is a drummer for all seasons. One size fits all. A consummate pro with broad musical tastes, he graces the bands and recordings of a wide variety of performers, not just those in the jazz realm. He's a drummer. Period. Don't mistake that for “any ol' drummer," because he is far from ...
