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Trevor Watts: A Life of Musical Integrity
by AAJ Staff
By Trevor Watts It's always been important for me to follow my muse, whatever that is. It seems to manifest itself in a subconcious need to do something, change something, explore something. Entwined with a feeling of staving off habit, boredom and self satisfaction. The need to explore new avenues for oneself. These new ...
Warren Smith: My Musical Life In New York City
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Warren Smith After two or three brief visits, I came to New York City to stay in the fall of 1957. I had been born into a fabulous era on Chicago's South Side about five years after the great Depression. Things were not yet back to normal. We shared ...
Min Xiao-Fen: Prove, Improve, Improvise
by AAJ Staff
By Min Xiao-Fen I still remember when I was ten years old, my father, Min Ji-Qian - a professor, educator and pipa* master at Nanjing Normal University in China - was teaching one of my classmates. He lent one of his pipas to her, and I immediately got so jealous. Ever since then, ...
Charles Lloyd: A Reporter of Life's Experience
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Charles Lloyd At 65, approaching my 66th year, I am playing with one of the greatest bands I have had. Geri Allen, Robert Hurst, Eric Harland and on special occasions we make it a quintet with John Abercrombie. Each time we play together the waters get ...
Gunter Hampel: Bringing Music to the People
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Gunter Hampel. As a composer, arranger, bandleader and now the owner of BIRTH Records, I have been undergoing changes in publishing my music on LPs, CDs, cassettes and video. As a new carrier, the DVD has arrived and seems to be the new way of bringing music to the ...
Dave Liebman: If I had $10 Million in the Bank!
by David Liebman
There's no question that I am going to get pinned to the mat, condemned for being close minded, negative, purist, sour grapes and definitely politically incorrect for what I am writing. It is very specific, concerned with jazz musicians being hired to play in pop situations. It is not about musically “crossing over" which is another ...
Cecil Bridgewater: Where to Create Music
by AAJ Staff
By Cecil Bridgewater Creating music requires a place and an environment within which to create. I see a number of young, talented people coming into the various schools where I teach having had no practical experience in this music outside of a classroom. They have developed tremendous facility on their instruments and knowledge ...
Bill Cole: The Path I have Taken and the Instruments I Play
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Bill Cole. On October 11, 2002 I turned 65. To celebrate I took my ensemble the Untempered Ensemble into the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. At the beginning of the second half all the members of the Ensemble played double reed horns that come from Asia. After the ...
Art Davis: All That Jazz Ain't All That Jazz
by AAJ Staff
By Art Davis Many of us know the history and derivations of this topic. There can be numerous dissertations that I could present but I shall focus on education. All too often, while teaching a jazz history class, I encounter students who think that “Bird" is a famous basketball player. There ...
Ron McClure: Making Music
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Ron McClure Remembering one's self, or having an internal awareness file, with constant access capability, is a wonderful and necessary thing in the process of making music, since we all forget ourselves. The term making music means different things to different people. In 1964, bassist Chuck Israels ...
