Results for "Interview"

Richard Cook, Author Of "Blue Note Records: The Biography"

by Victor L. Schermer
May 15, 2003

Richard Cook is an Englishman who resides in West London. He is the author of the recently-published Blue Note Records: The Biography and the co-author of The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Although he frequently comes to New York, it was necessary for practical reasons to conduct the interview via email correspondence. As one more ...

John Santos Finds His Groove

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
May 13, 2003

John Santos is riding high these days. His most recent album, S.F. Bay , was nominated for a Grammy Award as Latin Jazz Album of the Year. He has received increasing notice from critics, and is a recognized leader not only in the Bay Area's Latin scene, but in jazz as a whole. This spring, Santos ...

Alexey Nikolaev: From Russia with Chops

by Jason West
May 13, 2003

The first time I heard Alexey Nikolaev perform (last year at the Hopvine Pub with Kareem Kandi) I was knocked out by his big tenor sound and his willingness to take chances with the music. Employing a huge note range and complete control of his instrument, Nikolaev's solos were show-stoppers; they never failed to get a ...

Interview with Michael Marcus

by Vittorio Lo Conte
May 10, 2003

We meet Michael Marcus during his recent tour in March through Europe. We talk, among many subjects, about his new band, the Cosmosanatics, and about his new recording sessions. All About Jazz: It is a couple of years that you work with the Cosmosamatics. With Sonny Simmons is a longer story. May you tell us about ...

Dave Brubeck: Jazz Legend

by AAJ Staff
May 9, 2003

Dave Brubeck has been playing jazz for almost seven decades. The Concord, California-born pianist who grew up on a cattle farm in Ione and managed to graduate from the College of Pacific music program without knowing how to read music. But he also studied with famed classical composer Darius Milhaud and recorded the first million-selling instrumental ...

A Fireside Chat with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

by AAJ Staff
May 7, 2003

Music is a rare thing. Left to lone interpretation, sound in the form of music, has no dedicated form. If music is to have any future significance beyond pop culture relic, it should have no formula at all. And if authenticity is defined by honesty, the improvisers creating unrelenting radical music are honorable. Perhaps to a ...

GlasJAZZ interviews Bruce Adams (trumpet)

May 7, 2003

Peter Brotzmann

by AAJ Staff
May 6, 2003

By Clifford Allen Peter Brotzmann has exemplified European improvised music for over 40 years and particpated in countless international collaborations. Br'tzmann's career began in art, experience he would take into his music and record label FMP. His playing, brash and aggressive, continues to destroy speakers worldwide. He recently sat down with Masters Degree ...

Craig Taborn: Suggesting Textural Dimension

by Phil DiPietro
May 2, 2003

Craig Taborn has distinguished himself through his work, some of it nothing short of groundbreaking, with some of the most important musicians in New York's “Downtown" scene. His contributions during parallel careers with Mat Maneri, Drew Gress, Marty Ehrlich, Gerald Cleaver, Dave Douglas' Witness project, and Tim Berne's Hard Cell and Science Friction Units, has been ...

A Fireside Chat with Milford Graves

by AAJ Staff
April 16, 2003

If you like the 'free jazz' or 'avant-garde' or 'loft' or 'downtown' or whatever other bullshit name they give this music, you are a fan of Milford Graves. You may not know it, but you are. Much like Henry Grimes, Graves is one of those musicians that those in the know, know and those in the, ...