Home » Search Center » Results: Interview
Results for "Interview"
Dave Douglas, direttore artistico di Bergamo Jazz Festival
by Libero Farnè
Basta un'occhiata veloce al programma di Bergamo Jazz 2017 per rendersi conto di alcune prerogative caratterizzanti. Innanzi tutto spicca la diffusione degli eventi in diversi spazi della città, più che nelle edizioni passate. Ai collaudati luoghi da concerto principali, in primis l'Auditorium di Piazza della Libertà e il Teatro Sociale, oltre al prestigioso Teatro Donizetti, si ...
Jamil Sheriff: Helping shape a brave new jazz world
by Rokas Kucinskas
Jamil Sheriff is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. About 20 years after finishing studies in Leeds College of Music, the pianist became the head of the jazz department in the same institution; today he is regarded as one of the top jazz educators in the UK. Among many things Sheriff teaches composition, aural awareness, and ...
Tim Bowness: Ghost Lights and Life Sentences
by John Kelman
As much as it's something most would prefer to avoid, when a pair of musicians share a lengthy musical history together it's difficult not to compare and contrast the work they do when apart. Beyond contributing added clarity to their individual work, it helps to articulate what each of them bring to the table when they're ...
Laura Jurd: Big Footprints
by Ian Patterson
Every few years a band appears that injects a welcome shot of adrenaline into the jazz mainstream, exciting media, promoters and fans alike--the Neil Cowley Trio, Phronesis, GoGo Penguin and Snarky Puppy all spring to mind. Dinosaur, an English quartet led by trumpeter Laura Jurd, is being widely tipped to create such waves on the strength ...
Al Jarreau holds forth on the art of singing, the decline of radio and the glory of the great American songbook
by Jim Trageser
Note: This interview with Al Jarreau was originally published in 2004 on Turbula.net. Any doubts that Al Jarreau was born to sing are quickly dispensed with by a simple conversation with the man--he is incapable of holding forth on the topic of music without dipping into the subject at hand. Not ten ...
Intervista a Baba Sissoko
by Daniele Vogrig
Libertà, amore, tradizione. Sono i valori portanti della musica e dell'esistenza di Baba Sissoko, tra i maggiori polistrumentisti griot viventi, per una carriera ormai ventennale costellata da innumerevoli progetti e prestigiose collaborazioni. All'insegna di un unico, grande messaggio di pace universale. All About Jazz: C'è molto blues in ciò che ...
A dialogo con Andrea Massaria
by Neri Pollastri
Nel 2009 intervistammo il chitarrista triestino Andrea Massaria, allora autore di alcuni dischi in trio e in quartetto, di genere abbastanza convenzionale ma di ottima fattura, che stava avvicinandosi a un universo per lui nuovo, fatto di sperimentazione e improvvisazione radicale, testimoniati dal CD con il Chladni Experiment Trio, 5053, e dalla partecipazione a una conduction ...
Rick Mandyck: The Return From Now
by Paul Rauch
It was a cold Tuesday evening the last week of December. 2016 was mercifully coming to a close, this evening, a final chorus of a long blues blown soulfully, and mournfully into the night. I sat at the bar at Seattle's storied jazz spot, Tula's, in eager anticipation of the evening's performance of a quartet led ...
The Wee Trio: Full of Surprises
by Geno Thackara
Don't be fooled by the name. The members of the Wee Trio are normal-looking and normal-sized guys, their ambition if anything is deluxe, and their compositional scope virtually limitless. While such a moniker can only keep them humble--not that they'd seem to need the help--they've always kept an outsized willingness to follow fascinating ideas and embrace ...
Clarence Becton: Straight Ahead Into Freedom
by Barbara Ina Frenz
Clarence Becton is a musicians' musician—meaning, someone well-known in musician circles. He belongs to the generation of American jazz heroes who grew up under economically and socially difficult circumstances, and for that very reason, succeeded in gaining a comprehensive education, emancipating himself, and embodying the history of jazz music by directly learning from and working with ...
