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Take Five With Luca Luciano

by AAJ Staff
March 13, 2007

Meet Luca Luciano: Clarinetist and composer Luca Luciano is a “classically trained Italian virtuoso resident in London" (Jazz UK) who is also visiting lecturer of both jazz and classical clarinet at the Leeds College of Music and very much appreciated in the UK and overseas for his unique style (Jazz Journal International wrote about avant-garde) and ...

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Take Five With Victor Acker

by AAJ Staff
March 11, 2007

Meet Victor Acker: Victor Acker is one half of the Boston-based Acker Bros., both of whom are Berklee College alums with three funny and funky albums to their credit, which borrow liberally from enough musical categories to defy hard categorization themselves. They want you to love them.Instrument(s): guitar.Teachers and/or influences? I had ...

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Take Five With Colette Wickenhagen

by AAJ Staff
March 10, 2007

Meet Colette Wickenhagen: Colette Wickenhagen, born in a Dutch family that loved music, especially jazz music. Winner of the Polaroid Award and the Breukelen Jazz Award. Studied successively at the Dance Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands, the Arts Educational School in London, and the Nel Roos and the Cabaret Academy in Amsterdam. Played throughout the years ...

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Take Five With Darrell J. Walker

by AAJ Staff
March 10, 2007

Meet Darrell J. Walker: I am an awesome trombone player in the real New Orleans tradition. Been called the “baddest" trombone player in New Orleans. Learned from the best - my daddy plays the trombone as well as I studied in college. I have played professionally for approximately thirty years. I'm forty-nine years old. I've played ...

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Take Five With Sax-of-Praise

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2007

Meet Sax-of-Praise (Otha T. Carpenter, Esq.): Legacy of Peace (Sax-of-Praise) Quiet Presence (Quiet Presence)Instrument(s): soprano saxophone.Teachers and/or influences? I have both traditional and contemporary influences varying from John Coltrane to Kenny G. However, being born in Memphis, I favor artists such as Kirk Whalum.I knew I wanted to be a ...

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Take Five With Thom Keith

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2007

Meet Thom Keith: Thom Keith was born in Rochester, New Hampshire during the first Nixon administration. He grew up in a home filled with the sounds of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Coltrane, Walt Dickerson, Air, and David Murray, courtesy of a very musical family. At the age of eleven, he took up the alto saxophone, later ...

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Take Five With Farnell Newton

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2007

Meet Farnell Newton: Farnell Newton composer/trumpeter was born on March 21, 1977 in Miami, Florida where he was exposed to many forms of music from jazz, salsa, funk and hip-hop.Instrument(s): trumpet.Teachers and/or influences? My trumpet professors at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Marcus Belgrave, Kenny Davis and Bill Lucas. Dennis Reynolds from the ...

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Take Five With Neil Cowley

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2007

Meet Neil Cowley: As a ten-year-old child prodigy he performed a Shostakovich piano concerto to a full house at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Having answered an ad in Melody Maker at seventeen, he entered the world of pop, and by 21 had performed to over five thousand at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2002, Q Magazine ...

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Take Five With Paul Carlon

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 2007

Meet Paul Carlon: Saxophonist and composer Paul Carlon has been active on the New York City jazz and Latin jazz scenes for fifteen years, having performed with and/or composed for James Hurt, Phil Bowler and Pocket Jungle, the Jason Lindner Big Band, Juan Pablo Torres, Harvie S, Grupo los Santos, Rumbatap Dance Company, the Ileana SantamarÃƒa ...

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Take Five With Karen Stachel

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 2007

Instrument(s): flute, piccolo. Your dream band: My dream band is my current band. I love Spike Wilner's piano. He loves to go for it on every song he does. Juini Booth on bass is solid and open at the same time. He brings his beautiful personality and great spirit to the band stand and ...