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Pete Malinverni
by AAJ Staff
“Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable." --Leonard Bernstein “Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God." --Martin Luther “Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?" --Leonardo da Vinci To most jazz fans, the intimate connection between music and spirituality ...
Dave Ellis: Talented Tenor on the March
by R.J. DeLuke
Why Not? So many jazz musicians have been heralded as the next “big thing" since the 80s it's hard to keep track. It can cause one, after a while, to cast a sideways glance at the next pronouncement. But when a saxophonist creeps up on you with a lively, burnished tone and a swagger ...
A Fireside Chat with Teddy Edwards
by AAJ Staff
Teddy Edwards passed away over the weekend after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. Edwards will be missed terribly. To see yet another voice unheard and unappreciated during his lifetime is a source of great angst for me. So an encore of a Fireside I did with Mr. Teddy Edwards a few years back.
A Fireside Chat With George Wein
by AAJ Staff
As the man behind what seems like every major jazz festival in this country, if not the world, George Wein has seen and heard everything. You can't argue with someone who has seen the likes of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and my hands are ...
A Fireside Chat With Toshiko Akiyoshi
by AAJ Staff
The marriage of composition and arrangement is not an easy one in modern music. Dedication to history coupled with invention of tomorrow makes the task even more daunting. Toshiko Akiyoshi has been doing just that for the past thirty years with her big band. What is impressive is not the time, but the quality of her ...
A Fireside Chat With Dave Douglas (2003)
by AAJ Staff
Not so long ago, Dave Douglas was touted as the crowned prince of improvised music. Sadly, this music is nothing if not tragically parallel to life and the irony of life is the same persons who lauded you are the ones to tear you down. But if you like the improvised music straight with no chaser, ...
A Fireside Chat With Ahmad Jamal
by AAJ Staff
Is Ahmad Jamal a legend? Hello, are the Miller Lite chicks hot? Yes. Jamal is nothing if not humble about it all. Refreshing in a world dominated by “show me the money" / “show me the camera" hams. But I guess it is because he is old school, the days when milk was a quarter, TV ...
A Fireside Chat With Ken Vandermark
by AAJ Staff
Improvised music post-Wynton has been a barren wasteland of record company manufactured 'young lions' or all-star jam sessions. All have done nothing to advance the music, but instead have relegated improvisation to historical overviews. Being a card-carrying member of Gen X, I have no interest is hearing, much less seeing, how well someone can play a ...
A Fireside Chat with Reggie Workman
by AAJ Staff
Why would someone leave the John Coltrane Quartet? That question still stigmatizes Workman forty years after his departure, overshadowing his impressive collaborations as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (with Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan), and with Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers, Andrew Hill, Archie Shepp, and Freddie Hubbard. So I asked. The following is my ...
A Fireside Chat with Kenny Garrett
by AAJ Staff
Once upon a time, Miles Davis recorded Live Around the World, including a catchy version of 'Human Nature.' An unknown Kenny Garrett, all of twenty-eight at the time, was featured on alto. Garrett didn't remain unknown long, recording Introducing Kenny Garrett with Woody Shaw and becoming 'the' alto player with a trio of critically acclaimed releases, ...
