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Day's Dawning: An Interview with Singer Devorah Day
by Franz A. Matzner
Five years after making the original recordings, singer/song writer/conceptualist Devorah Day has finally secured the release of her debut album, Light of Day. Supported by Marion Brown's legendary saxophone playing, as well as the camaraderie and musical skill of the other band members, this stunning exploration of jazz singing reveals what happens when inspiration, honesty, and ...
Mastering the Groove: A Chat With Organist Reuben Wilson
by C. Andrew Hovan
In hindsight, it is possible to get too much of a good thing. Back in the '50s and '60s when a plethora of jazz recordings hit the jazz market like never before in the music's relatively short history, it was easy to take it all for granted. This was especially true of the organ combo records ...
Conversation with Scott Colley
by Franz A. Matzner
Though he doesn't know it, I owe composer/bassist Scott Colley quite a bit. It was hearing Mr. Colley perform at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles several years ago that fully opened my ears to the expressive force of the bass. Certainly, I'd always possessed a certain predilection for the bass, but it wasn't until after ...
Vince Wallace: A Jazz Legend Stands Tall in Oakland
by Jerry Karp
Maybe the luckiest day in tenor saxophonist Vince Wallace's life, or at least the luckiest day in the last few years, was the day in the summer of 2001 that he wandered into the Bulldog Coffee Shop on Broadway in Oakland and was recognized by a jazz fan named Justin Scovil. Wallace is a West Coast ...
Benny Golson: Setting Standards
by C. Andrew Hovan
Great jazz artists have always set themselves apart in two areas: They display a highly developed degree of instrumental prowess, coupled with an unmistakably individual voice. Far more elusive, however, is that proverbial needle in the haystack: the jazz player who not only speaks with 'lan, but also composes his own distinctive material. One of the ...
A New Face - Make Mine an OliRockberger Please- with Zero Cheese!
by Phil DiPietro
With the publication of this interview I'm completely confident my A&R chops will be recognized in written or verbal, but in all probability, not financial form. Unless you're Bostonian and attend ensembles, rehearsals, recitals and commencements at Berklee- or this year, attended the UK's Brecon Jazz Festival- you wouldn't know who Oliver Rockberger is, but as ...
Conversation with Avishai Cohen
by Franz A. Matzner
Avishai Cohen has already had a stellar musical career. Playing on bass, electric bass, and piano, Cohen has worked with Chick Corea, recorded solo, and founded his own rock group. He has proven himself both as instrumentalist and composer. With his latest release, Lyla Cohen has taken on the next challenge of label owner by founding ...
Soul Journey: Michael Weiss and the Art of Composition
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although he's spent a good deal of his career as a valued sideman, communing with such jazz masters as Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, and Junior Cook, the time has arrived for pianist and composer Michael Weiss to make his own mark as one of the true original voices on the current jazz scene. In the past ...
Gene Deitch: The Pen Behind 'The Cat'
by Chris M. Slawecki
You'll usually find one unsung person, or more, standing behind a legendary 'jazz cat.' In the case of 'the Cat,' the subject of witty comic illustrations that enlivened the classic jazz aficionados' and collectors' magazine the Record Changer published from 1941 until 1957, that person standing behind 'the Cat' is artist Gene Deitch. Gene ...
Elevate Me: Michael Blake's New York World-Jazz
by Todd R. Brown
Imagine Duke Ellington's orchestra swinging by camelback caravan through the marketplace of Tangier, Morocco, or Miles Davis and crew funky-tonkin' up the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, and you'll get an idea of what saxophonist and composer Michael Blake's approach to jazz is. Blake, who plays this year's JVC Jazz Festiva in New York ...
