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Steffen Basho-Junghans: Guitar Excursions into the Unknown
by Mario Calvitti
On the occasion of the release of German guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans' album The Dancer on the Hill (Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records, 2020) after 10 years of discographic silence, All About Jazz contacted the artist for a short interview. All About Jazz: Your new album Dancer on the Hill comes out more than ...
Chitarra mediterranea: intervista a Giovanni Palombo
by Mario Calvitti
Seguiamo da tempo l'attività di Giovanni Palombo, chitarrista romano partito dal fingerpicking puro di matrice folk e successivamente approdato su territori musicali più vicini al jazz, soprattutto per via della sua collaborazione con il clarinettista Gabriele Coen con il quale ha fondato il quartetto Camera Ensemble, proponendo una musica comunque sempre radicata nell'area del Mediterraneo. In ...
Remembering Lester Bowie
by Lazaro Vega
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in December 1999. Lester Bowie played several concerts and made one so far un-issued recording in the late 1990's with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio plus poetess Ntozake Shange. The evening of grooves, improvisation and poetry came to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in ...
Mirna Bogdanović: The Art Of Confrontation
by Serena Antinucci
It takes a vivid imagination to stand still and yet reach faraway places. This is the sense communicated when hearing the debut album of the Slovenian/Bosnian jazz singer-songwriter Berlin-based Mirna Bogdanović. Traditional forms of music unfold towards contemporary, instinctive directions. Confrontation, released on December 18 by Klaeng Records (an independent label from Cologne), does ...
Peter Archer: The True Inspiration of "Soul"
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Disney / PIXAR's jazz-flavored movie Soul has garnered rave reviews and buzz worldwide. That's because in addition to its spectacular animation and meticulous production values, there's an honest and accurate representation of jazz and jazz musicians. What's behind that is the fact that the film was inspired by a dedicated Queens music teacher, Dr. Peter Archer. ...
Dario Savino Doronzo: Riletture tra storia e modernità
by Paolo Marra
Far convivere Opera e jazz in un unicum coeso ed equilibrato è cosa non facile. Il flicornista Dario Savino Doronzo con il progetto Re-Imagine, insieme al pianista Pietro Gallo, riesce nell'impresa creando con il recente album, Reimagining Opera (Digressione Music), un convincente incontro tra due mondi all'apparenza lontani. Il disco contiene una selezione di famose arie ...
Benjamin Koppel: Curiosity Won't Kill This Cat
by R.J. DeLuke
Benjamin Koppel is an extraordinary Danish musician from an illustrious music family. He is all about music—of just about any kind. He's always absorbing it, discovering what there is to derive from it. A kind of restless desire to explore envelops him. He simplifies it in his own words: he's curious. It comes naturally to him. ...
Frank Kimbrough: Changing the Contexts, Keeping It Fresh
by Wayne Zade
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in September 2002. Frank Kimbrough is one of the most versatile and innovative pianists in jazz on the New York and national scenes. He has been the pianist in the Maria Schneider jazz orchestra and has recorded seven albums under his own ...
Frank Kimbrough of the Jazz Composers Collective
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. Frank Kimbrough (pianist/composer) was born on November 2, 1956 in Roxboro, NC and currently resides in New York. As a founding member and composer-in-residence of the Jazz Composers Collective, Mr. Kimbrough's works have been prominently featured in ...
Jazz Composers Collective: The Herbie Nichols Project
by AAJ Staff
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. The Herbie Nichols Project is a working, researching, and performing entity--co-led by pianist Frank Kimbrough and bassist Ben Allison. Operating within that fertile creative aggregate known as the Jazz Composers Collective (of which Mr. Kimbrough and Mr. Allison are ...
