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C'mon In, The Water's Great!
by AAJ Staff
By Erica vonKleist Playing Ellington's music, especially at a young age, is a lot like learning how to swim by jumping into the deep end of a pool. One is thrust into a situation that requires a vast wealth of musical skill and understanding and has proven to be a challenge for musicians at ...
Uncertainty Principles
by AAJ Staff
By Vijay Iyer For me, this month brings an unusual confluence of several disparate projects and encounters. On March 6th, I celebrate the release of a new album, Still Life with Commentator, created in collaboration with poet/hiphop artist Mike Ladd and a stellar electroacoustic ensemble, which we will bring to UCLA on the ...
Portrait in Seven Shades
by AAJ Staff
By Ted Nash“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it. - Pablo Picasso About two years ago, Wynton Marsalis, artistic director ...
Alexis Cuadrado: A Jazz Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by AAJ Staff
By Alexis CuadradoIt had been too many conversations; after gigs, on the subway, in airplanes, at the park. Always about similar subjects: Our struggles as bandleaders; how we set up a tour and it drained all of our energies; how we would have loved to have advance warning about that lousy club owner in ...
Laszlo Gardony: You Can't Take Your Ax On The Road
by Laszlo Gardony
I love my piano. It stands in the middle of my living room. Every time I play it, it feels like I am connecting to an external part of me. There is a bond that is special and fragile. Last December when I spent a lot of time writing music on my piano, an acquaintance came ...
Connie Crothers: Ideas for a Jazz Renaissance
by AAJ Staff
By Connie CrothersThere is a strong potential right now for a jazz renaissance. There are many signs of it. When there is no commercial pressure on the outcome of a performance or recording, there is evidence among musicians of greater looseness, openness and willingness to take chances. Although some small venues don't pay (and ...
Get Involved!
by Vinson Valega
'Tis the season... the election season, of course. That's right... it's almost that time again where we enter the polling booth to either affirm what a swell job our elected officials have been doing, or we pull the lever to “kick-the-bums-out!" In either case, our choice employs our representatives for the next term, where they get ...
The Cape Town Jazz Scene
by AAJ Staff
By Sathima Bea Benjamin Its jazz is both similar and different from American jazz. First of all, at the time--the late '40s-50s--we wouldn't even call it jazz if we didn't identify so completely with Black Americans, both in social and political ways. In South Africa and Cape Town especially, you've got the White people and African ...
Focus on Sanity
by AAJ Staff
By Frank Kimbrough There's been much discussion recently about musicians voicing their political views. I'm of the opinion that it's not only our right, but our responsibility to do so. Since 9/11, the Bush administration has characterized disagreement with decisions made by our government as unpatriotic or un-American, but I couldn't disagree more--not ...
Coming Of Age: Life, on the Road to Parnassus
by AAJ Staff
By Pete Malinverni One day you turn around and realize that, by now, in your 40s, you have lived--and are living--the life of a musician. For me, this was not accidental--years of practice, study, gigs, listening, all of that--but I enjoy looking back at decisions taken that led me to the exact point at which I ...
