Results for "Marc Copeland"

Marc Copeland

Jochen Rueckert: Fringe Guy

by Leo Sidran
August 10, 2020

In this wide ranging podcast interview, drummer Jochen Rueckert meditates on his early years in Germany, his time playing with Marc Copeland and later with Will Vinson, why playing with great bass players is like eating great pasta (especially true with Matt Penman), refusing to share hotel rooms, why he is a reluctant teacher, what Lage ...

Jazz in the Time of Pandemic

by Karl Ackermann
April 9, 2020

The first week of April 2020: images crystalized the daily news reports; a dystopian Times Square; Piazza Navona in Rome, emptied of tourists, Barcelona's Basílica de la Sagrada Família standing like an abstract ruin, makeshift morgues in hospital parking lots. The jazz world is small but still a microcosm of society with interdependencies that run deep. ...

Bill Kirchner: Finding Music's Intimacy

by R.J. DeLuke
November 15, 2015

The extremely accomplished Bill Kirchner--composer, arranger, saxophonist, writer, editor, teacher--enjoys a career anyone would be proud of. He's played with important musicians, led outstanding groups and had his arrangements played by top-shelf musicians and bands. In 1996, he won a Grammy for Best Album Notes for the revered Columbia/Mosaic re-issue Miles Davis and Gil Evans: The ...

Jazztopad Festival 2010: A Month of Outstanding Jazz Concerts

November 1, 2010

Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, opens its doors this Friday, November 5th and will present a series of outstanding jazz concerts each weekend throughout the month. Now in its seventh year, Jazztopad has quickly established a name for itself as one of the leading jazz festivals in Poland. Its reputation as a progressive, creative festival, however, ...