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A Fireside Chat With Oteil Burbridge
by AAJ Staff
I must plead ignorance, but two years ago if you had asked me about the Allman Brothers, my response would have been “Sweet Home Alabama"? But through a friend in the “industry" who is code named “a little bird," I have become somewhat and I say somewhat in the loosest way, a Grateful Dead listener.
A Fireside Chat With Concord's John Burk
by AAJ Staff
John Burk (along with Glen Barros and a few little people, and I don't mean elves) has been part of the most remarkable label turnaround ever (well, my ever anyway since I am rather young at heart). Concord Records, not too long ago in the past, was hindering on the brink of existence because of poor ...
A Fireside Chat With Bud Shank
by AAJ Staff
Is Bud Shank West Coast cool jazz? Providing you know what the hell 'cool jazz' is (and I don't), I find everything that Shank plays to be cool. Shank's alto is hip, but alas, I have a hidden agenda. I am campaigning here and now to convince Shank to play the flute once more. Shank has, ...
A Fireside Chat With Tim Ries
by AAJ Staff
I am a fan of Larry Goldings. Not so much his organ playing, although he is a fine organist, and probably the best of his generation, but more so for his compositional prowess. Goldings' compositions are very much beyond his years (if that didn't sound like a compliment, my apologies). Goldings is a fan of Tim ...
Arif Mardin: In Conversation
by Todd R. Brown
Arif Mardin is a mover and shaker in the music business, but at age 10, he was the one being shook. “My father was manager of a Turkish bank in Alexandria, Egypt," Mardin said. “In 1942 we were there; Germans would bomb the city. We would go down to the shelter, and at one point, famous ...
Nicholas Payton: In Conversation
by Gregory J. Robb
In some ways, Nicholas Payton's new Warner release, Sonic Trance, was inevitable: he says he was headed this way for quite some time. However, this record represents something of a highlight for the native of New Orleans ' a reach that grasps new uses of technology for aesthetic effect. From the moment we first ...
Metalwood's Chris Tarry: In Conversation
by Gregory J. Robb
When Air Canada Flight No. 706 lands at the gates of LaGuardia, a Canadian music story fuses itself (as so many other great stories have) to the legends of New York City. Chris Tarry, a multi-talented bassist of Canadian national repute, will carry his dream as far as he can take it. Tarry has already experienced ...
A Fireside Chat With Producer John Snyder
by AAJ Staff
Cecil Taylor recorded an album in 1989 with what in essence was the first incarnation of his now famous Feel Trio. In Fluorescence, featuring Gregg Bendian and William Parker, is a classic Taylor record, and one that would never have been made were it not for one John Snyder. And the same holds true for Don ...
A Fireside Chat with William Parker
by AAJ Staff
William Parker is the best bassist of my time. Whether or not people coming to terms with hard bop having ended with the Alfred Lion Blue Note days learn to appreciate Parker is not a question of if, but when. Parker's uncanny ability to make saxophonists that play alongside him better is akin to Jimmy Garrison ...
A Fireside Chat with Randy Weston
by AAJ Staff
In my youth, a television news magazine aired a feature on how the map of the world we, as kids, were taught in school was in fact, biased. In reality, Europe and America are not nearly as vast as they seem in the Thomas Guide and Africa and Asia, not nearly as insignificant. South Africa, for ...
