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A Fireside Chat with Helma Schlief, Curator of FMP (Free Music Production)
by AAJ Staff
I love FMP. I will go far as to say that there isn't a title on FMP (in print) I haven't listened to and moreover, not one title (in print) I wouldn't recommend. But how do you argue against the record label that has recorded the vast majority of Europe's legendary improvisers? How do you argue ...
Catching Up With Joe Lovano
by Elliott Simon
Cleveland born saxophonist Joe Lovano consistently tops the polls and is a Grammy winner who has interpreted Sinatra and Caruso and worked within both the mainstream and avant-garde. He recently became artistic director of New York's Caramoor Festival and is the Gary Burton Chair of Jazz Performance at Berklee College of Music. He maintains a busy ...
A Fireside Chat With Roy Haynes
by AAJ Staff
In the seventy-eight years Roy Haynes has 'walked the earth' (obscure biblical Samuel L. Jackson reference), computers went from not being invented to being the size of a cafeteria to fitting in the palm of the human hand. Ford introduced the Thunderbird, discontinued the Thunderbird, and reintroduced the new Thunderbird. New York City went from being ...
A Fireside Chat With Greg Osby
by AAJ Staff
Every so often, Greg Osby goes through a ronin phase. He hermits himself from the public microscope and works on his craft. With great introspection and exploration, Osby returns with a renewed sense of artistry that kicks my ass. Oz's latest release, Inner Circle, has been lauded as his “best" by many. ...
Marek Balata: Improvisation is a marvelous adventure!
by Roland Kánik
Marek Balata is one of the most remarkable personalities on the Polish jazz scene. From 1990 until 2000 he was a constant winner of the Jazzforum annual chart for best jazz vocalist. His vocal art flows from several roots: a colorful and extraordinarily wide-ranging voice, an expressive variety combined with rich melodic inventiveness ' an archetypical ...
Brink Man Ship: It's not music for teenagers!
by Roland Kánik
Saxophonist Jan Galega Br'nnimann belongs to the younger generation on the Swiss jazz scene. He stands in apparent creative schizophrenia ' he respects the tradition of jazz but he also likes to experiment. The result of this typical post-modern contradiction is the music of Brink Man Ship: a futuristic vision of jazz without stylistic and racial ...
Q&A with HatHut Records Founder Werner X. Uehlinger
by AAJ Staff
Boy, if there was ever a label that suited my taste, anti-establishment and underground, Hat Hut would be it. There is a constant with all of the labels that I believe are on the cutting edge, they are all run by individuals who love the music dearly and their dedication to their artists and the music ...
A Fireside Chat with Joe McPhee
by AAJ Staff
Labels are difficult to overcome. Perceptions are even more daunting. And Joe McPhee is often burdened with both: the labels of 'free jazz' or 'avant-garde' and the perception that his music is conceptual or theoretical (the same also holds true for the music of Anthony Braxton). But McPhee plays neither and his music is hardly highbrow ...
Franck Amsallem Waits for His Time
by Eric J. Iannelli
The liner notes to Franck Amsallem's newest record say it all. Summer Times is the French pianist's excursion into a more commercial, more accessible sound. Full stop. End of story. Of course you could finish there, but you wouldn't want to. Amsallem has a lot to say at this point in his career. ...
Hotep Idris Galeta Takes It Home
by AAJ Staff
Despite more than three decades on wax, pianist Hotep Idris Galeta has largely escaped the public eye. Perhaps that's not too much of a surprise, given his rather unassuming nature and the fact that he's never had much of an itch for the spotlight. Galeta (b. June 7, 1941) grew up in Cape Town, ...
