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Stephan Crump: Giving Life to the Music
by Tyler Henderson
Stephan Crump is a bassist with many talents, his skills ranging from funk and rock to straight ahead jazz and folk. The Grammy-nominated artist cut his teeth on the New York City jazz scene, working there since the 1990s. He's been a collaborator and a bandleader, working with the likes of Vijay Iyer, Ashford Simpson, Billy ...
Matteo Pastorino: nome nuovo del clarinetto
by Libero Farnè
..."un clarinettista deciso e inventivo del quale risentiremo parlare." Con queste parole nell'agosto 2008 concludevo la mia recensione di Time in Sassari su questa rivista. Il clarinettista era Matteo Pastorino, allora diciannovenne, e in quell'occasione si esibiva all'interno dell'ottetto Viento Rojo, che raccoglieva i giovani più promettenti fra quelli che avevano frequentato i corsi di Nuoro ...
Bob Whitlock (1931-2015)
Von Bob" Whitlock, a West Coast jazz bassist and the last surviving original member of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet who joined the influential piano-less group in the summer of 1952, died yesterday in Long Beach, Calif., of a stroke. He was 84. Without a piano in the Mulligan quartet, Bob had to work doubly hard to ...
Intervista a Marcello Giannini
by Angelo Leonardi
Il pubblico italiano del jazz ha conosciuto Marcello Giannini grazie alla scrittura nell'organico Parco della Musica Jazz Lab" di Enrico Rava. Con questi ha registrato per l'Espresso il CD Jazz Italiano Live 2009 e, qualche anno dopo per l'ECM, Rava on the Dance Floor. Attivo professionalmente da un decennio, in un'area musicale che spazia dal jazz ...
Chad Lawson: Crossing Over and Back
by K. Shackelford
Chad Lawson is a compelling musical voice that deserves wider attention. He's a masterful pianist with an extensive jazz background, but has crossed genres taking the beauty of his music into the classical world. Recently, he released The Chopin Variations, arrangements of famed composer Frédéric François Chopin. On the album, Lawson re-contextualizes Chopin's piano solo pieces, ...
La via dei suoni di Luca Aquino
by Luigi Sforza
Poliedrico esploratore di esperienze musicali, adogmatico ascoltatore di musiche, trombettista molto ricercato per la sua tendenza a conciliare in forma sempre originale istanze sonore provenienti da ambiti musicali diversi e spesso lontani tra loro, Luca Aquino incarna l'immagine esemplare dell'esploratore sonoro contemporaneo, che pur rivolgendo lo sguardo ad un ampio panorama musicale -alla storia del jazz ...
Dave Burrell: Pianist Navigating the Windward Passages
by Victor L. Schermer
Dave Burrell is a master pianist and composer who encountered the avant-garde in the 1960s and has been following his own independent path ever since. He combines classical and jazz elements that are both inside" and outside" the mainstream. The title of a poem by J.V. Cunningham, The Metaphysical Amorist" characterizes much of his playing, which ...
Steve Gadd: Consummate Drummer
by R.J. DeLuke
It might be easier to list who drummer Steve Gadd hasn't played with since he got a pair of drum sticks at the age of three at his home near Rochester, NY, right up to the age of 70, where this year his tour of duty includes Eric Clapton, James Taylor and his own band. Gadd ...
Jon Batiste: Staying Human
by Bob Kenselaar
Jon Batiste was named the bandleader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (related news). This interview was originally published in January 2013. Nearly everything about Jonathan Batiste is steeped in New Orleans--from the way he talks, walks, and claps his hands to the way he plays the piano, composes, and leads his Stay ...
Daniel Schnyder: The Anatomy of an Opera: Charlie Parker’s Yardbird Suite
by Victor L. Schermer
Saxophonist Charlie Parker revolutionized the world of music with his legendary approach to jazz. Unfortunately, his life was much too short and filled with tragedy. In 1955, Parker died at the age of 34 from excessive drug use. He died in the apartment of the Baroness Nica von Koenigswarter in New York City, but ironically his ...


