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Kenny Werner: Freeing the Inner Urge
by AAJ Staff
It’s a very good bet that pianist Kenny Werner would NOT be high on the invitation list for speakers on the topic of the importance of jazz tradition. For Werner, jazz tradition is something that – at least for him – gets in the way of the creative process. “Very early in my musical ...
Jeremy Steig
by Celeste Sunderland
Artist/flutist Jeremy Steig colored some drawings in a cozy corner of his apartment one night last month, when he spilled a jar of ink. Not a pleasant mess, especially with Frac, Steig's gigantic cat pawing around. So the artist “banished" himself back to his drawing table covered with bamboo pens and Steig Ink (Uncle Arthur invented ...
Hamiet Bluiett
by Clifford Allen
When one thinks of great baritone saxophonists, the list is relatively short: Harry Carney, Serge Chaloff, John Surman and Hamiet Bluiett are the names that come most quickly to mind. Compared to the vast number of tenor and alto players, or even the throngs of soprano-doublers, the baritone is a criminally underrepresented horn. Part of this ...
Brian Lynch
by AAJ Staff
For any aspiring young jazz player determined to make the move to the musical Mecca of New York City and make a living as a professional musician in the Big Apple, trumpeter Brian Lynch has some sage advice. “I think the thing about moving to place like New York, if you can make connections ...
Sam Rivers: High Octane Octogenarian
by Russ Musto
Sam Rivers is the jazz world’s high octane octogenarian. The energetic 81-year-old multi-instrumentalist may have left New York for Florida, but he’s far from settled and nowhere near retirement. His visionary conception of complex composition and spontaneous creation, unmistakably manifest in the imaginative music of his trio and orchestra, remains revolutionary and yet, unfortunately, largely underestimated ...
Tom King & The Royal Chicagoans
by Leona Weiss Toppel
A Tribute to Jazz “Savor the Sound” Classical Jazz music is a sense of well being. It is born of a musical language Created by hearts of positive and spirited individuals representing their joys collectively and triumphantly. The reward comes from the sound
In the Spirit: Alice Coltrane
by Kurt Gottschalk
Alice Coltrane walked out onstage, joining an ensemble led by her son Ravi on a recent and historic night at Joe's Pub. The bassist Darryl Hall played an immediately recognizable four-note line and the group (also featuring drummer E.J. Strickland) launched into the only reasonable song they could have chosen for the evening, if one that ...
Bassist John Ore
by Riel Lazarus
In days long passed, when the New York jazz scene resembled the open range, musicians played long and hard for next to nothing - a pittance. Young artists would patiently take their lumps at jam sessions, in an attempt to hone their blooming skills and maybe, just maybe, be plucked by a reputable bandleader.
Marty Ehrlich: Knows No Bounds
by Clifford Allen
My first experience of Marty Ehrlich was as the lanky, bespectacled fellow standing near my uncle on the back cover of the Creative Improvisers’ Orchestra LP The Sky Cries the Blues. A relatively obscure Leo Smith-directed album cut during the trumpeter’s sojourn in the New Haven scene of the early ‘80s, it is but a blip ...
Taylor Eigsti: Prodigy Taking Jazz World by Storm
by Katie Alvarez
Listening to the opening moments of Resonance, the Bop City debut of piano whirlwind Taylor Eigsti, is scary enough--those incendiary octaves that ignite “Got a Match" into a post-bop firestorm. Imagine, though, what it was like to experience this intensity first-hand when this surreally gifted player, all of ten or eleven years old, blew ...
