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Michel Camilo: Live From New York
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist Michel Camilo is excited. Those who know this virtuoso pianist might think: what else is new? Camilo is not a brooding artist. He's vivacious and upbeat. He's talkative and joyous as a rule. And well he should be, with a dynamite trio and recordings that are garnering both sales and critical praise. He's ...
Charles Davis: Sweet Storyteller
by R.J. DeLuke
There’s a difference between the elder statesmen in jazz and the newer firebrands, no matter how talented. One is the former’s ability to take their time to tell a story. They’ve been around life and they’re not in a rush. Like Dexter was. And Prez. Out of that mold is 70-year-old Charles Davis, displaying ...
Michel Alibo: The Bassic Personification of World Fusion
by Phil DiPietro
Michel Alibo is one of jazz and world music's most accomplished and influential musicians. Bassist of choice, not to just some of world music's most visible stars, he's also the premier bassist for entire subcategories of world styles. Michel has laid down textbook grooves in Latin, Caribbean, African, and fusion forms in such subgenres as beguine, ...
A Fireside Chat with Jack DeJohnette
by AAJ Staff
A gal pal of mine turned me onto Bitches Brew (pre--A Love Supreme/Bitches Brew, I was an '80s new wave junkie). This eventually led to my purchase of Live-Evil (the most underrated and killing '70s Miles record). On both sessions is one Jack DeJohnette, who made his bones with the iconic trumpeter, but is best known ...
Sunny Murray
by Clifford Allen
Drummer, composer, and bandleader Sunny Murray was born in Idabel, Okla. in 1936. After moving to New York, a brief period of involvement with bebop musicians quickly gave way to several years of playing with Cecil Taylor (CT) in trio, quartet, quintet and septet settings (1959-1965). In addition to his longstanding association with the “88 Tuned ...
A Fireside Chat With Miroslav Vitous
by AAJ Staff
A founding member of Weather Report, featured soloist on Chick Corea’s infamous Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Blue Note album, and leader of the genre bending Infinite Search has largely remained silent for the better part of two decades. Miroslav Vitous, once referred to as one of the perennial bassists in jazz, went into a ...
A Fireside Chat With Gerald Wilson
by AAJ Staff
Within the pages of Central Avenue Sounds, Gerald Wilson recalls, “In February of 1940 I came to Los Angeles with the Jimmie Lunceford band.” He emphasizes, “I’ll never forget that day in February. As I looked out the window of my bunk in the sleeper, I see this beautiful sunshine. We were somewhere like San Bernardino. ...
Jason Moran on 'The Bandwagon'
by Franz A. Matzner
Jason Moran is busy. Busy touring to promote his upcoming release The Bandwagon , a live album featuring his outstanding trio; he’s busy winning critics and readers poles; he’s busy talking to reporters; and he’s busy carving out time for younger musicians like those gathered at the recent clinic Moran held at the University of Maryland ...
Kurt Elling: Don't Measure the Limbs
by R.J. DeLuke
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. --Pablo Picasso At a time when the music scene in the United States is in a funk, and the recording industry, ...
Kenny Barron: Pianist Who Opens Eyes and Ears
by R.J. DeLuke
Kenny Barron's piano playing has delighted fans--and other pianists--for many years now. Every time he sits at the keyboard, his lyricism and crisp, clean style, whether lightning fast or soulfully soft, is one of the great pleasures of jazz. When Kenny Barron plays, it's like the old E.F. Hutton commercials. People are going to listen. The ...
