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Take Five With Vic Dillahay
by AAJ Staff
Meet Vic Dillahay:Vic Dillahay is a Colorado-based guitarist, fretless guitarist, and mandolinist. He currently plays swing-era jazz with vibraphonist Pete Ehrmann in The Pete & Vic Duo, modern jazz with saxophonist Doug Carmichael (3ology), and acoustic hip-hop with One Member Shy of a Good band.Instrument(s):Guitar and fretless guitar.Teachers ...
Interview: Davide Recchia
Q: Where did the interest in music originate from? A: I started becoming interested in music when I listened to some blues artist like Son House, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and many others of that kind of blues. So I start to play my guitar to became a bluesman like that. Q: Were your parents supportive ...
Valby Summer Jazz Festival Reinvents Jazz In Copenhagen This July
In 2012, many stars such as Randy Brecker, Jim Hall and Lee Konitz gave lustre to Valby Summer Jazz. This year the festival once again strives to reinvent and introduce jazz music to new audiences in meetings between great jazz masters and some of the best classical acts, DJ’s, pop vocalists and crooners. Benjamin Koppel presents ...
Art Strike!
by Mark Corroto
"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...
Gilad Hekselman: This Just In
by Mark Corroto
Quietly, so quietly the jazz guitar torch is passed from the legends Jim Hall and Pat Martino to Kurt Rosenwinkel and Gilad Hekselman, whose release This Just In makes a conspicuously understated grab for said torch.His fourth release as leader follows Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant Du Monde, 2011) and features the same stellar ...
Jim Hall: Live at Birdland
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'etichetta indipendente ArtistShare si sostiene finanziariamente con contributi economici versati da una comunità aperta di musicisti e di appassionati di jazz e festeggia i suoi dieci anni di attività con un disco dal vivo del socio più maturo: il sempre giovane di spirito Jim Hall, ripreso al Birdland, col suo quartetto, nelle serate del 10 e ...
Steve Slagle: Evensong
by Dan Bilawsky
Saxophonist Steve Slagle is a consummate leader often pegged as a sideman; with a résumé that includes stints with big band legends like Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton, left-of-center trailblazers like pianist Carla Bley, Latin giants like Ray Barretto and modern day marvels like tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, it's easy to see why some people may ...
Carole Simpson Remembered
by Skip Heller
As news of Donald Byrd's passing was leaking out slowly, jazz educator Keith Pawlak sent me a note on Facebook asking if I had heard that pianist/vocalist Carole Simpson had passed away. Her name is barely known except to a few collectors who specialize in female singers of the Eisenhower era. She was during ...
Dan Phillips BKK Trio: Bangkok Edge
by Dan Bilawsky
Thailand isn't exactly known the world over as a jazz mecca, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its fair share of talent in this department; one need look no further than the back cover of guitarist Dan Phillips' Bangok Edge to discover the names of some of the movers and shakers on the Thai jazz ...
The Jim Hall Quartet: Live at Birdland
by Victor Verney
Guitarist Jim Hall, now in his eighth decade, continues to be a vigorous performer, fresh-minded arranger and creative composer. He's been around so long, and done so much, that it's humbling to try writing something fresh about him: there is little to say that hasn't already been said, and in many cases quite eloquently.
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