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Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock: WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT
by Enrico Bettinello
Si aprano le porte dell'inferno! L'ottima Trost Records convince Peter Brotzmann a ripescare nei propri archivi questo bruciante set del 1987 in duo con la chitarra di Sonny Sharrock; unico precedente della detonante coppia, il vinile Fragments per la Okkadisk, che però è registrato un paio di anni più tardi e uscito nel 2003. ...
Peter Brotzmann/Sonny Sharrock: WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT
by Sammy Stein
This album is a release of archived material, recorded live in Luxembourg in 1987. Peter Brotzmann has been delving into his archives a lot lately and this release is one of the gems he found. Now on the Venetian label TROST, this collaboration between Brotzmann and guitarist Sonny Sharrock is widely available. Sharrock died in 1994 ...
Gent Jazz Festival 2014 - Part Two: Jazz Peripherals
by Martin Longley
Gent Jazz Festival De Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 17-19, 2014 The second weekend of this festival is traditionally devoted to musics that lurk outside of the jazz sphere, but resonating in sympathy with the core. Of course, there were a few stray acts from the mainline, just ...
Peter Brotzmann/Sonny Sharrock: WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT
by Mark Corroto
Gone, now more than twenty years ago, guitarist Sonny Sharrock passing in 1994 seems like just yesterday. Maybe it is because his inexhaustible larger-than-life sound still permeates the music of today's free jazz community. This recording, from 1987 is a hidden gem and treasured fragment, perhaps another Rosetta Stone that allows listeners to appreciate how the ...
Vossa Jazz 2014
by Bruce Lindsay
Vossa Jazz Voss, Norway April 11-14, 2014 Vossa Jazz: a jazz festival that's about more than just jazz, an event that takes place at the same point in the calendar every year but not on the same days, a place to celebrate hundreds of years of musical tradition and to ...
Pete Mills: The Anatomy Of A Jazz Release
by Mark Corroto
I'm here to tell you that everything you thought about the making of a modern jazz records is wrong. The notion that there are talent agents selling concepts to record companies—wrong. That bands work on tunes, perfecting them for months before entering the studio—wrong. That jazz musicians make money from records—again, wrong. I had ...
Take Five With Willie Oteri
by AAJ Staff
Meet Willie Oteri: An anomaly in the music world having survived tragedy and financial hardship that forced him to quit music as a profession during the early part of his career, Willie Oteri has come back to music. With a small budget he released two well-received blues/rock albums in the late '90s before moving to ...
Stories of Friendship and Family Ties: The Gonzalez Clan Rides Out
by Eyal Hareuveni
The family unit of trumpeter Dennis González and his sons bassist Aaron González and drummer Stefan González, known as Yells At Eels, has been operating since 2000. Dennis González played and recorded with countless innovative musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, and in recent years solidified his musical bonds with Polish and Portuguese musicians. His ...
Marvin Sewell: Stepping Up to the Plate
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]Marvin Sewell might be the greatest guitarist you've never heard of. I first met Sewell at a recording session in 1995. (Sewell, saxophonist Gary Thomas, and I improvised over hip-hop tracks for two days; these sessions were edited into what become Thomas' ...
Take Five With Vic Dillahay
by AAJ Staff
Meet Vic Dillahay:Vic Dillahay is a Colorado-based guitarist, fretless guitarist, and mandolinist. He currently plays swing-era jazz with vibraphonist Pete Ehrmann in The Pete & Vic Duo, modern jazz with saxophonist Doug Carmichael (3ology), and acoustic hip-hop with One Member Shy of a Good band.Instrument(s):Guitar and fretless guitar.Teachers ...
