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Gary Burton: A Lifetime of Collaborations
by Chris M. Slawecki
This interview was first published at All About Jazz in April 1999. Vibraphonist, composer and teacher, Gary Burton was among the first modern jazz musicians to come out of the fertile American Midwestern musical ground from which Pat Metheny and others later grew. Born in Anderson, Indiana, Burton began his professional career while still ...
The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come To Me
by Roger Farbey
Drummer Asaf Sirkis co-leads this international group along with Polish singer Sywia Bialas (who actually resides in Germany) and two British musicians, Frank Harrison and Patrick Bettison. Sirkis has been making waves on the jazz scene over the past few years, playing with the likes of Larry Coryell and Tim Garland. Five of the ...
Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975 (Livelove Series Vol 1)
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist Larry Coryell is unquestionably one of the pioneers of jazz/rock fusion, incorporating rock elements as early as the mid-1960s with the group The Free Spirits, and later with vibraphonist Gary Burton. He never attained the recognition of many who followed, but the Eleventh House was an attempt to attract the same audience as groups like ...
Nobuki Takamen: Solo Guitar
by Mark Sullivan
Jazz guitarist Nobuki Takamen plays like someone with nothing to prove as he takes on that most difficult challenge: a truly solo jazz recording, with no overdubbing or electronics. His playing throughout is confident and mature, with no extraneous display. Which is not to say that his technique is lacking: the opener “Someday" effortlessly goes from ...
Larry Coryell: Special jazz moments, all night long
Guitarist Larry Coryell is a musical force unto himself, but when he gets to converse with other musicians, the results can border on magical. Such was the case Saturday, January 17 when the jazz-rock veteran, now more comfortably digging into standard fare, performed in the South County Jazz Club series at Sarasota's Glenridge Performing Arts Center. ...
The Beatles: A Jazz Tribute - Celebrating 50 Years
Label: HighNote Records, Inc.
Released: 2014
Track listing: Things We Said Today; Taxman; The Art Of Dying; Norwegian Wood; Eleanor Rigby; Little Song / Blackbird; Here Comes The Sun; Something; In My Life; Yesterday;
January 1975
Label: Promising Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Bird Fingers; Diedra; Gratitude "A So Low"; Low Lee Tah; Funky Waltz; Suite (Entrance/Repose/Exit); Julie La Belle; The Other Side; Tamari; Untitled Thoughts; Adam Smasher; The Eleventh House Blues;
Michael Mantler: The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update
by Karl Ackermann
Trumpeter Michael Mantler has been a fixture on the US music scene for so long that it's easy to forget the global nature of his career. Born in Vienna, Austria, he came to the US in the early 1960s working with Cecil Taylor and co-founding the Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association (JCOA). The resulting JCOA self-titled album ...
Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography
by AAJ Staff
This article appears courtesy of David Meeker and the Library of Congress. Learn more about Jazz on Screen. Overview of Jazz on the Screen By David Meeker The cultural, sociological and technical histories of jazz and motion pictures have run in parallel, sometimes intersecting, lines ever since both forms emerged ...
Take Five With Mark Egan
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mark Egan:Over the past 30 years, Mark Egan's ability to groove, perfectly complement the music in any situation and solo expressively has made him one of the most in-demand bass players on the international music scene. While racking up credits with the likes of the Pat Metheny Group, saxophonists Steve Grossman, Dave Liebman, Stan ...
