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Richard Davis: There He Bows
by Andrey Henkin
When initially contacting legendary bassist Richard Davis for this profile, the response was a simple “Call at six am your time any day." Since Davis has been based in Wisconsin since the '70s, this meant for him a talk at five in the morning. A far cry from the stereotypical jazz musician who didn't know there ...
Gerry Hemingway: Following His Muse
by Kurt Gottschalk
Without naming names, it seems safe to say that its the rare drummer who can step up as a bandleader or composer, who can move out of the realm of percussion and work with a variety of instrumental voices. Looked at from another angle, it could be worthwhile to name names of drummers who go beyond ...
Tony Monaco: Jazz Organ Crusader
by William Grim
If you happen to be in Columbus, Ohio on most Wednesdays, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you head up on High Street just north of the student slums of Ohio State University to an unpretentious joint known as the Ravari Room. It's your typical campus dive bar, complete with cheap drinks, an incongruously placed ...
Remembering Saxophonist Massimo Urbani
by C. Michael Bailey
Massimo Urbani was born in Primavalle, Rome on May 8, 1957. He was the eldest of five sons from a lower middle class family. Urbani's interest in music emerged when he was six, when he attended concerts presented by local bands appearing in his neighborhood. The young Urbani was also amply exposed to a variety of ...
Nathan Davis
by Russ Musto
Nathan Davis remembers it like it was yesterday. Sitting in his office at the University of Pittsburgh in the '70s reading a Downbeat magazine. “It said, 'Dexter Gordon returned back, Woody Shaw returned back to great ovations. What ever happened to Nathan Davis?' And boy, a big tear came to my eye, he recalls laughing. “Because ...
Joe Fonda: Forever Real
by Robert Iannapollo
Talk to bassist Joe Fonda for even a short time and you get caught in the whirlwind. Conversation flows easily from one topic to another: from Anthony Braxton to Duke Ellington to Marvin Gaye or from Paul Wolfowitz to the best wine that goes with salmon. Fonda's one of those incessantly curious people who seems to ...
The Allman Brothers Band: Beacon Theatre Preview 2005
by Doug Collette
Whither The Brothers in 2005? A question worth pondering after the breakthrough year of 2003, those prodigious gains consolidated throughout 2004 and the apparently ever-widening future of ABB to be shaped beginning, as it does every March, at The Beacon Theatre in New York City 2005 is shaping up to be a ...
The Incredible Jimmy Smith
by Ed Hamilton
February is recognized as Black History Month and inventors of African American Heritage are honored. Louis Latimer did not invent the light bulb but invented the light inside as James Oscar Smith did not invent the Hammond B-3 organ, but invented the Jazz sound played never before until he laid his fingers on the 2-story set ...
Henry Threadgill Makes A Move
by Kurt Gottschalk
Henry Threadgill isn't hesitant to state his place in music. He has, he said quite plainly, “changed music both horizontally and vertically." His work isn't “strident," he said. “It doesn't strike you. You might think you know what's going on, but try to analyze it." And he states it, perhaps, ...
Edgar Bateman Jr.
by Andrew Rowan
Drummer Edgar Bateman Jr. has been around music his entire life. An aunt played piano, her husband played trumpet in jazz bands, and, ironically, his sister introduced him to the drums. Because of a childhood illness (rheumatic fever and an enlarged heart), he was not allowed strenuous activity. But his sister was in the drum corps, ...
