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A Fireside Chat With Arthur Blythe
by AAJ Staff
At one time, Arthur Blythe was part of the Columbia machine (not unlike the Miramax machine, how else do you explain the Gangs of New York phenomenon). Then trends took precedent over music and a young Wynton over a middle-aged Blythe (so the urban legend goes). Blythe still managed to record a classic Lenox Avenue Breakdown. ...
Skip Heller: Inviting You In to his Musical World
by R.J. DeLuke
Where do you start with Skip Heller, a self-taught guitarist, composer, arranger who's been playing bars and clubs since his high school days, everything from blues to rock to rockabilly to bluegrass to folk and on and on. He knows Mahler and Dave Douglas. He knows Louis Jordan and Henry Mancini. He may be the world's ...
A Fireside Chat With Joe Morris
by AAJ Staff
To me, Joe Morris is about as good as it gets these days. Sure, I pine for the days of Trane and Ayler. But every now and then, I am pleased to be alive and well (relative) in 2003. Morris' discography is impressive, records with both Ken Vandermark and Vandermark's DKV Trio, Joe and Mat Maneri, ...
Meet Saxhophonist/Clarinetist Gebhard Ullmann
by Glenn Astarita
Submitted by Glenn Astarta on behalf of Vittorio Lo Conte for AAJ:Italy. All About Jazz: Regarding your CD Kreuzberg Park East - Will you keep developing your musical ideas with this group in the future? Gebhard Ullmann: The CD Kreuzberg Park East was an advancement of my composition concept for quartet (two horns and piano-less rhythm ...
A Fireside Chat With David Weiss
by AAJ Staff
David Weiss is one of the founding members of the New Jazz Composers Octet. Three years and counting, the NJCO is one of the hippest things going in the Big Apple these days. Including a saxophonist who is el fuego, Marcus Strickland, Elvin alumnus, Xavier Davis at the piano, Roy Haynes and sometimes Dave Douglas bassist, ...
A Fireside Chat With Joe Lovano
by AAJ Staff
A bird told me that Joe Lovano would be touring with old friend and band mate, John Scofield, Al Foster, and Dave Holland. That was a handful of years ago. Logistics, being that it was a European tour, made it difficult for me to catch the band live. Thankfully, Blue Note recorded the band and that ...
A Fireside Chat With John Scofield
by AAJ Staff
A bird told me that John Scofield would be touring with old friend and band mate, Joe Lovano, Al Foster, and Dave Holland. That was a handful of years ago. Logistics, being that it was a European tour, made it difficult for me to catch the band live. Thankfully, Blue Note recorded the band and that ...
A Fireside Chat With Frank Lowe
by AAJ Staff
In a prior life, I did buying for Tower Records. As a buyer, aside from the weekly visits from record reps pitching product, I would get requests from customers. One customer in particular thought he was king. A rather obnoxious long in the toother, this fella was old timing, giving me lectures on how Kenny G ...
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 Fireside Chat With Herbie Hancock
by AAJ Staff
To know Miles Davis is to know Herbie Hancock. Herbie, having been a member of Miles' infamous quintet with Tony Williams, Ron Carter, and Wayne Shorter, is required reading. But long before I was casually interested in improvised music, I knew Herbie. You see, being a member of Gen-X that grew up on daily feedings of ...
