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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jelly Roll Morton

All About Jazz is celebrating Jelly Roll Morton's birthday today! The city of New Orleans has the distinction of being the ‘birthplace of jazz’ so its appropriate that in New Orleans in or around 1885 to 1890 would be born the self-proclaimed “inventor of jazz”. Ferdinand Joseph Lemott (Lamothe) and his story is one of mystery, ...
Mikko Innanen e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Mikko Innanen: Questo lo lascio definire agli ascoltatori. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. M.I.: Che sappiano capire cosa sto cercando, e trovare la loro via per farlo. Questo è il jazz! ...
Anthony de Mare: Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano

by John Kelman
It looks, on paper, like a striking idea. Take a pianist (Anthony de Mare) who has been a virtuosic rising star in the classical and avant-garde arenas over the past quarter century. Commission a set of 36 interpretations, for solo piano, of music by one of musical theatre's preeminent composers, Stephen Sondheim. Choose participants ranging from ...
Marco Castelli: Porti di Mare

by Neri Pollastri
Esperto sassofonista e eccellente compositore messosi in luce negli ultimi anni con la BandOrkestra 55, originale organico allargato che coniuga la banda popolare e la big band jazzistica, Marco Castelli si presenta qui alla testa di una formazione tipica e presenta--come in BandOrkestra--un repertorio eclettico, che spazia da Jelly Roll Morton alla musica latinoamerica, fino alla ...
Claudio Sessa: Improvviso singolare

by Maurizio Zerbo
Improvviso singolare Claudio Sessa 143 Pagine ISBN: 978-8862317689 Il Saggiatore 2015 543 pp. Claudio Sessa è uno dei più originali storici italiani dell'estetica jazzistica. Lo dimostra emblematicamente questo libro, destinato a lasciare un segno indelebile sulla letteratura jazzistica. L'autorevolezza e l'acume critico portano l'autore a scrivere pagine ...
The New Orleans All-Star Brass Band: Do You Know What It Means?

by Ian Patterson
This article was originally published in October 2006. It has been said that the truest expression of a people is in its music and dance. That being the case, then pianist {m: Herbie Hancock was right on the money when he described New Orleans as the soul of our country. The nation's soul however, ...
Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian-American Experience

by Nicholas F. Mondello
Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian-American Experience Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter 384 Pages ISBN: #978-1-60461-089-5 Bella Musica Publishing 2015 In this meticulously researched and anecdote-included work, authors Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter present a truly fascinating perspective on both the history ...
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 ...
Vince Giordano at Iguana

by Nick Catalano
If you go to Iguana on 54th St. and sit down on a Monday or Tuesday evening to dine on some sensible Mexican food you can also do some time traveling. When the Nighthawks hit at 8:00pm you won't have any trouble imagining that it is 1925 and you are in a speakeasy at the musical ...
Burt Eckoff: A Pianist's Close Encounters With the Greats of Jazz

by Idelle Nissila-Stone
Active in the New York City jazz scene since the 1960s, pianist Burt Eckoff played with many jazz greats, among them Howard McGhee, Maynard Ferguson, Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt and Archie Shepp. He is known for exceptional artistry in his work with vocalists Dionne Warwick, The Drifters, Eddie Jefferson, and most importantly Dakota Staton, with whom ...