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Lee Townsend: Originality and Feelings
by Nenad Georgievski
The role of the producer varies and changes from project to project. The producer is a person responsible for the overall sound of your project. This includes obtaining the proper musicians for the recording, coaching and guiding the musicians, supervising the recording, material development, and various stages of recording and mixing and mastering. Through the years ...
Karin Krog
by Suzanne Lorge
For the past two years Karin Krog has led 24 or so jazz buffs from her homeland of Norway on a walking/listening tour through New York City. The group visits some key historical sites and attends shows at Blue Note and Village Vanguard, but what has been missing from the tour, perhaps, is a performance by ...
Orrin Keepnews' Collection
by Marc Medwin
"Listen," Orrin Keepnews' no-nonsense delivery tempered by a smile. “I'm 84 years old. I'll take my legacies where I can get them," referring to the Keepnews Collection, a series launched this year by Concord Records. An astonishing study in longevity and ingenuity, the multiple facets and accomplishments of Keepnews' career as label maverick, writer ...
Micha
by Celeste Sunderland
Paris has always been a haven for musicians. In the late 1980s a stream of jazz greats passed through the bar at Alan Silva's music school where saxophonist Michaël Attias manned the tap. “I remember pouring [saxophonist] Frank Wright a beer two weeks before he died, he recalled. “Sunny Murray, Jerome Cooper, Abbey Lincoln rehearsing...I remember ...
Carlos Ward: A Tough and Lyrical Journey
by Clifford Allen
Alto saxophonist and flutist Carlos Ward has worked steadily with some of improvised music's most diverse and captivating figures--musicians like John Coltrane, Don Cherry and Abdullah Ibrahim--but despite being a well-regarded presence in their ensembles, Ward has not received quite the recognition that even a host of other sidemen have. Ward's alto tone is gritty and ...
Charles Lloyd: His Mystical Journey
by Matt Leskovic
The life of Charles Lloyd has truly been the proverbial “long, strange trip." The master reedman experienced an unmatched level of popularity for a jazz musician in the late 1960s. Lloyd (b. 1938) and his quartet, which featured a young Keith Jarrett on piano and Jack DeJohnette on drums, packed clubs and ...
John McLaughlin: His Goals Beyond
by Andrey Henkin
Fusion these days is a dirty word and fans of the genre are treated with the same smirking disdain as Trekkies or role-playing gamers. Some might posit that fusion's initial burst of energy--sometime between 1967 and 1969 depending on who you talk to--was soon co-opted by hyper-masculine “virtuosos and then, even worse, by commercial interests in ...
Paul Rutherford: An Homage
by Torsten Muller
It was 1975. I was a teenager at my parent's house on the lonely moors of Northern Germany, feverishly opening a package from FMP Records in Berlin, my lifeline to the world of free jazz and improvised music that I had recently discovered. The package contained one LP, Paul Rutherford's Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie. I ...
Dave Brubeck: His Own Sweet Way
by Andrew Velez
It would take a lot of pages to just list his accomplishments and awards in both jazz and classical music in a body of work uniquely his own. Let's just say for starters that this gravel-voiced, 6'1 brown-eyed, Library of Congress Living Legend, NEA Jazz Master composer and pianist, David Warren Brubeck, better-known to the world ...
Dave Brubeck: All in Good Time
by Adam Green
In July, veteran jazz pianist Dave Brubeck performed by television broadcast from New York while the BBC Orchestra played along in London. This unconventional performance celebrated the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on Brubeck by the BBC. “I did something similar with Count Basie and Ellington in the 60's, with telephone wire," he explains to me in ...
