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Take Five With Four80East

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 2007

Meet Four80East: Four80East is the smooth jazz alter-ego of producers Rob DeBoer and Tony Grace. Since breaking on to the scene in 1998 with the undeniably groovy single “Eastside, the group has been winning fans around the world with their amalgamation of bass-heavy grooves, trancy arrangements and tasty jazz solos.Your sound and approach to ...

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Take Five With Mika Pohjola

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 2007

Meet Mika Pohjola: Mika was born in Finland in 1971. He was an eager young pianist in learning Debussy, Gershwin and Grieg, but didn't want to practice his Beethoven. In 1987, his contract with Beethoven was released by jazz at an undisclosed sum. He moved to Sweden to study with the great Alvaro Is Rojas. While ...

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Take Five With Jerome Sabbagh

by AAJ Staff
February 10, 2007

Meet Jerome Sabbagh: Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris in 1973 and has been living in New York for eleven years. After stints as a co-leader with the collective Flipside (with whom he worked for five years and recorded an album for Naxos Jazz), and sideman work with Laurent Coq and Guillermo Klein, ...

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Take Five With Quinn Lemley

by AAJ Staff
February 10, 2007

Meet Quinn Lemley: Sultry Lounge Diva Quinn Lemley brings film star glamour, enchanting audiences with standards inspired by the sirens of the '40s, '50s and '60s.Quinn Lemley has appeared at major theatres and clubs around the US and Europe, most recently she returned to packed houses at B.B. King's Blues Club in NYC, Times ...

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Take Five With Kyle Bronsdon

by AAJ Staff
February 10, 2007

Instrument(s): drums, voice, piano.I knew I wanted to be a musician when... I began studying at 13 years old with Tom Tedrahn in Chicago. I'd never met an adult like him, and my entire life has been richer because of my time with him.“If you think you can or if you think ...

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Take Five With Alexis Cuadrado

by AAJ Staff
February 9, 2007

Meet Alexis Cuadrado: Born in 1971 in Barcelona, Spain, and currently based in New York, Alexis is an active member of the New York jazz scene.Since 1993 he has performed in Spain, Europe and the US with some of today's most outstanding groups and soloists such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bruce Barth, Ben Monder, Perico ...

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Take Five With Anne Mette Iverse

by AAJ Staff
February 8, 2007

Meet Anne Mette Iversen: A former student in classical piano at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Iversen went on to study bass for four years at the Rhythmic Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark, and graduated in 2001 from The New School University with a BFA degree in Jazz Performance.Iversen has resided in ...

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Take Five With Hugh Marsh

by AAJ Staff
February 8, 2007

Meet Hugh Marsh: Hugh Marsh is widely recognized as Canada's leading improvising violinist. He has toured, recorded or performed with Don Byron, Jon Hassell, Bruce Cockburn, Loreena McKennitt, Harry Gregson Williams, Hans Zimmer, Daniel Lanois, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Mercan Dede, Roberto Occhipinti, Goksel Baktagir, Nexus, Robert Palmer and Peter Murphy, among many others.Instrument: electric ...

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Take Five With Miles Okazaki

by AAJ Staff
February 8, 2007

Meet Miles Okazaki:Miles Okazaki lives in Brooklyn, where he plays guitar, writes music, and draws pictures.Instrument:GuitarTeachers and/or influences?Teachers: Rodney Jones, Ganesh Kumar, Michael Townsend, Steve Coleman, my fellow musicians and friends.Influences: It's a hard question...right now I will say, Melody: J.S. Bach, Wayne Shorter, ...

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Take Five With John A. Williamson

by AAJ Staff
February 8, 2007

Meet John A. Williamson: Here to “Move you and Groove You," do the jump, jive, swing and scrunch with them - dance with them till the whole floor is sore! Close your eyes and let them take you to a most dangerous and mysterious musical place.Among today's great roots, jump blues, blues and rhythm ...