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Take Five With Rory Hoffman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Rory Hoffman: I was raised in a musical family, playing drums in the country gospel family band by the time I was five. Twice named musician of the year, 2004--2005, by the ICMA, based in Nashville, TN. Moved to Nashville in the spring of 2008. I currently work as a freelance touring and ...
"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor
by Jack Bowers
From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...
Chico Hamilton Quintet: Three Classic Albums
by David Rickert
Chico Hamilton QuintetThree Classic AlbumsAvid Records2010 The first thing the Chico Hamilton Quintet had going for it was unusual instrumentation. The quintet built its sound around the cello, and featured guitar, bass, either flute or clarinet (with the occasional sax), and Hamilton on drums, forgoing the sticks for ...
Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout
by Donald Elfman
When Chico Hamilton was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the film studios used to send trucks out to pick up the little African-American children to play natives in their Tarzan movies. “It was work, after all, and we got paid for it," says the drummer, now 87 years of age. “And what you learned ...
John Pisano's Guitar Night
By John Pisano
Label: Mel Bay Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: I'll Never Be The Same; The Blues; I Want To Be Happy; Good Bait; When Sunny Gets Blue; Rosetta; Whisper Not; My One and Only Love. CD2: 'Round Midnight; Falling In Love With Love; Autumn Leaves; All Of You; I Thought About You; Minor 6th Sense; Footprints; Wee.
John Pisano: John Pisano's Guitar Night
by Michael P. Gladstone
In 1997, guitarist and entrepreneur John Pisano convinced a Los Angeles club owner to allow him to promote a series of jazz guitarists, who would perform on a weekly basis, with a different artist appearing each week. The debut of this series began at Papashon's and was later moved to Donte's (now long shuttered). The weekly ...
John Pisano: Conversation Pieces
by Robert Spencer
Conversation Pieces is a follow-up to Pisano's 1995 Among Friends,, and like its successful predecessor it consists of a series of “conversations" Pisano holds with other guitarists: the returning Lee Ritenour, Phil Upchurch, Ted Greene, and Dori Caymmi, plus Joe Diorio and Gene Bertoncini. Actually, all the tracks here were recorded in 1994 and 1995. Pisano ...
Duets
By Joe Pass
Label: Pablo Records
Released: 1996
Track listing: Alone Together; Baileywick; S'Il Vous Plait; Lonely Woman; Nina's Birthday Song; You Were Meant For Me; Blues For The Wee Folk; Satie; For Jim H.; Back To Back;
Among Friends (Guitar Duets)
By John Pisano
Label: Pablo Records
Released: 1995
Track listing: Limehouse Blues; Berry Drive; Take The "A" Train; D-Joe; If I Should Lose You; Mãos de Afeto; Silent Tears And Roses; Over The Rainbow; The Touch Of Your Lips; Voco; Blue Note Samba; Blues For E.S.M.;
