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Roy Campbell 101: From Where He Came
by Jason Byrne - Red Cat Publicity
We're just about midway through 2005 and NYC-based trumpeter Roy Campbell has already toured Europe with The Nu Band; performed at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival with his Pyramid Trio, featuring his musical brother, bassist William Parker; and toured Europe yet again with guitarist Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Band. Plus, he's played a host of gigs ...
Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer
by Andrey Henkin
At over 70 years of age, with a career that began in 1959 and included celebrated stints with Art Blakey and Miles Davis, 12 albums for Blue Note during that label's most creative period, the founding of one of the more influential fusion groups and work with major jazz and pop musicians throughout the '80s, it ...
Ted Curson: Atypical Ted
by Clifford Allen
“Journeyman is often applied to those in the jazz business, but “stevedore might be more apt. After all, both individuality and slow recognition are the result of impossibly hard work, and Curson is the rule rather than the exception. Born June 3rd, 1935 in Philadelphia, Ted Curson came to music early on, playing saxophone from age ...
Misha Mengelberg: More than Instant Composition
by Clifford Allen
If one takes a swath of the most influential and valuable jazz composers and bandleaders of the last 50 years, one gets one (or both) of two things: a handful of pianists and more questions and inconsistencies than clear lineage. However, just as Steve Lacy found in both Monk's music and free jazz “a door to ...
Bobby Few is Coming Through
by Clifford Allen
The course of an expatriate artist can go in several different directions; there are those for whom the experience of living and working in another country provides a deeper understanding of 'home' and 'place,' and for whom a return is necessary, and there are those who find that these things can be found in self and ...
Meet Drummer Allison Miller
by Elliott Simon
A child of the '80s, drummer Allison Miller came of age outside Washington, DC listening to jazz, funk, rock and pop. Studying with Walter Salb and later Michael Carvin, she has developed a personal technique that uses an exceptional command of phrasing to allow for what can best be described as a “melodic" approach to drumming. ...
Harold Mabern and Eric Alexander: The Art of Duo
by AAJ Staff
When 68-year-old pianist Harold Mabern performs with 36-year-old tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander as a duo, their age difference might lead those in the audience to assume a mentor-apprentice relationship exists between the two musicians. And that assumption is correct... up to a point. It's true that Alexander was a student of Mabern's at William Patterson College ...
David "Fathead" Newman: Remembering Brother Ray
by Ed Hamilton
And the envelope please. The Oscar goes to the other most frequently spoken character name in the film Ray-- “Fathead." The name was eminently prominent with the character portrayed in the academy award nominated film Ray, and was an extraordinary, integral part. The character “Fathead" was a prime figure throughout the film playing baritone sax and ...
Nate Morgan's Time Capsule
by Rex Butters
This month, history taps LA's pianistic prince on his shoulder for a blast from the past. Nate Morgan's first recording as leader, Journey to Nigrita, and an '80s date with lifelong friend and Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra luminary Jesse Sharps, find themselves reactivated on CD for the first time by Nimbus West records, both sessions' original ...
John Scofield: Up Close & Personal
by David Miller
No different from your prototypical professor, John Scofield is eager to chat (be it to audiences or to interviewers) and eager to hear from fresh young minds. Hence his trio's current tour of college campuses on a co-bill with the Brad Mehldau Trio. But John Scofield is not your prototypical professor. A master jazz improviser, he ...
