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AAJ's Top 15 Interviews of 2009
by AAJ Staff
With nearly 150 interviews published in 2009, AAJ continues to provide the most extensive jazz coverage on the web. We also expanded our interview coverage to include, for those surrounding new CD releases: associated Daily Download tracks; accompanying CD reviews; contest giveaways; and more. As always, AAJ provided coverage of well-known artists ...
Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane
By Steve Kuhn
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Welcome; Song of Praise; Crescent; I Want to Talk About You; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes;
Living Space; Central Park West; Like Sonny; With Gratitude; Configuration; Jimmy's Mode;
Spiritual; Trance.
Life's Backward Glances - Solo and Quartet
By Steve Kuhn
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1 (Ecstasy): Silver; Prelude in G; Ulla; Thoughts of a Gentleman/The
Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers; Life's Backward Glance. CD2 (Motility): The
Rain Forest; Oceans in the Sky; Catherine; Bittersweet Passages; Deep Tango;
Motility/The Child is Gone; A Danse for One; Places I've Never Been. CD3
(Playground): Tomorrow's Son; Gentle Thoughts; Poem for No. 15; The
Zoo; Deep Tango; Life's Backward Glance.
Mostly Coltrane
By Steve Kuhn
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Welcome; Song of Praise; Crescent; I Want To Talk About You; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Living Space; Central Park West; Like Sonny; With Gratitude; Configuration; Jimmy's Mode; Spiritual; Trance.
Joey Baron: Just Say Yes
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Combining technical acuity with a deep sense of groove, Joey Baron drums with playful exuberance. Throughout his more than 35-year career, he's propelled experimentalists like guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist John Zorn, as well as mainstreamers like vocalist Carmen McRae and saxophonist David Sanborn. He's even played with pop stars David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull. But ...
George Garzone: Among Friends
by Jakob Baekgaard
George Garzone is one of the unsung heroes of the saxophone, who is known for playing fast and hard. Anyone who has heard his legendary group, The Fringe, whether live or on record, can testify to his ability to blow any competition off the stand, but there is also a softer side to his playing and ...
The State of ECM Records 2009: Steve Kuhn, Jan Garbarek and Thomas Zehetmair
by C. Michael Bailey
Its 40th anniversary year, 2009, has been a good one for Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music Company. ECM was selected the Best Classical Label by Gramophone magazine. If that wasn't enough, ECM was selected Jazz Label of the Year and Manfred Eicher, Producer of the Year by Downbeat magazine. No record label since the Blue ...
Dan Tepfer: Oxygen & Duets with Lee
by Martin Longley
Dan TepferOxygenDIZ Productions2009 Dan TepferDuets with LeeSunnyside2009 The full arrival of pianist Dan Tepfer has been signaled by his recent sideman work with the august alto saxophonist Lee Konitz. These ...
Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High
by Edward Bride
A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. To be fair, Smulyan has his own voice, but he cites Charlie Parker ...
The Jazz Session #76: Steve Kuhn
Listen Steve Kuhn's new album, Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2009), pays tribute to John Coltrane, with whom Kuhn worked for several weeks in the early 60s. In this interview, Kuhn talks about Coltrane, the Lenox School of Jazz, his composing methods, and the support he received early on from Bill Evans. He also discusses the sacrifices he ...
