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A Fireside Chat with Michael Henderson
by AAJ Staff
There’s a level of cool that all of us at one point or another attempt to achieve. Then there’s a level of cool that all of us know we’ll never achieve – Miles Davis cool, Frank Sinatra cool, Errol Flynn cool, James Dean cool. Dig the cover of Michael Henderson’s Wide Receiver and you’ll have an ...
Q&A with Saxophonist Eric Person
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Although you recorded “live" before ( Live At Greenwich House and Live at Caravan of Dreams both with Ronald Shannon Jackson) this is your first live recording. How was the process different being a leader? Eric Person: Everything is different when you are the leader. It's a lot of weight on your shoulders. People ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: New Creative Roads
by R.J. DeLuke
Two and a half years may seem like a long time to work on one recording project, but not when there's singleness of purpose, a sense of real creation and a desire to get everything in the studio done just right. That's just what guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel did for his third release on Verve, Heartcore .
A Fireside Chat With Wadada Leo Smith
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz denotes an idiom and has little to do with freedom. John Litweiler’s The Freedom Principle chronicles how Leo Smith, born in Leland, Mississippi, a hub for the blues, entered into the service (outspoken of racial conditions in the army), discovered Don Cherry, moved to Chicago, joined the AACM, and developed into a standard for ...
A Fireside Chat with Lucky Peterson
by AAJ Staff
Blues icon Leadbelly is legendary, in part, because of his versatility. Familiar with the blues, ballads, rhymes, hymns, and gospel, Leadbelly's influence is prominent in every genre of music in this country. Lucky Peterson, born a decade and a half after Leadbelly's death, has the functional dexterity of Leadbelly, yet the modernistic relevance of other legends ...
A Fireside Chat with Paul Dunmall
by AAJ Staff
Born of the working class, Uker Paul Dunmall, like many of the Euros who are progressing improvised music, is well versed. Musically, ideologically, and instrumentally, Dunmall may seem avant-garde, but that is conventional paranoia. A member of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and a founding member of the improv collective power group, Mujician, Dunmall, again like ...
A Fireside Chat with Thurston Moore
by AAJ Staff
In the interest of complete candor, I must admit I was not hip to Thurston Moore's improvising until I received an album, Hurricane Floyd on a then little known Sublingual label. Frankly, I only put it on because I experienced Hurricane Floyd having lived in New York for the better part of a year (and it ...
A Fireside Chat with Roberto Miguel Miranda
by AAJ Staff
It is difficult to find loyalty in anything or anyone these days. CEOs are in and out of cuffs and court defrauding investors. Sports figures put on the jersey of a new team as often as you can say, “Show me the money." Actors, well, it is Hollywood and the fame would get to anyone. And ...
Jim Hall
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Riel Lazarus Over the course of his near 50 years in jazz, there is little ground guitarist Jim Hall has not yet covered. From his stints as sideman for Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, to his countless recordings and tours as leader, Hall has established ...
Peter Brotzmann
by Clifford Allen
Peter Brotzmann has exemplified European improvised music for over 40 years and particpated in countless international collaborations. Br'tzmann's career began in art, experience he would take into his music and record label FMP. His playing, brash and aggressive, continues to destroy speakers worldwide. He recently sat down with Masters Degree candidate in Art History Clifford Allen ...
