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Take Five With Dom Minasi

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Dom Minasi: I have been playing guitar for over 50 years When I was 18 years old I began teaching and working as a full-time musician.In 1974, I was signed to Blue Note Records. After two albums I left the recording business with a sour taste in my mouth and did not record ...

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Take Five With Christiana Drapkin

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Christiana Drapkin: Christiana came to the US as a Fulbright exchange student in theater. At Tulane in New Orleans she immediately found her strength in her singing. After moving to New York, she's never looked back and found her true artistic home here. She's immersed herself in the standard repertoire of the American Songbook, as ...

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Take Five With Phil Kelly

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Phil Kelly: In addition to more than 40 years as a composer / arranger for film, TV, and other media applications, Phil has written for bands like Bill Watrous' NY Wildlife Refuge, the old Tonight Show band, Doc Severinsen and Si Zentner, as well as functioning as arranger / conductor / drummer for vocalists Buddy ...

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Take Five With Shirantha Beddage

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Shirantha Beddage: Baritone saxophonist Shirantha Beddage is the Director of Jazz Studies at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA, and a Doctoral candidate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Shirantha's new release, Roots and Branches (Jazz Excursion Records, 2007), features a collection of his original works for quartet featuring piano, bass and ...

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Take Five With Joan Crowe

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Joan Crowe: A slightly twisted and superbly talented chanteuse--Tom Staudter, New York Times.Joan Crowe gets to the heart of a songs story. And shes funny. And she is beautiful. She gets the hat trick, is how Michael Bourne of WBGO describes Joan. A long time supporter of her work, he wrote the liner ...

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Take Five With Scott Anderson

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Instrument(s): trumpet and piano.I knew I wanted to be a musician when... I knew basically from the beginning that I wanted to do something in music. Once I started playing the trumpet I was convinced that I was going to be a legit player, do all the orchestra things and so forth. Fortunately I ...

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Take Five With Graham Clark

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Graham Clark: Graham Clark has been playing jazz on violin professionally since 1982. While living in Bristol and London in the 1980s, he played with Keith Tippett and Andy Sheppard. From 1988-1992 he was a member of cult psychedelic jazz-rock band Gong, touring extensively in Italy, France and the UK, and recording several albums.

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Take Five With Chie Imaizumi

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Chie Imaizumi: Capri Recording Artist/Composer/Arranger/Conductor/Pianist Chie Imaizumi started her musical career at the age of four. Continuing with the instrument all through her early years, Chie went on to win the Yamaha Electone Competition for outstanding performance on the electric organ at the regional and national levels several years in a row.At 18, ...

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Take Five With Kat Parra

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Kat: Kat Parra easily crosses over from classic jazz to steamy Latin jazz without missing a beat. The essence of Kat's musical journey is her ability to combine a mixture of different international styles to create a unique sound that is all her own.Kat's focus, along with classic jazz standards, is the creation ...

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Take Five With Skip Heller

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2007

Meet Skip: Born and bred in Philly, played bar mitzvahs, weddings, top 40, country and whatever else. Came up in the wake of giants like Uri Caine, Bootsie Barnes, Shirley Scott, and others. Very traditional on some levels, but a full-on cultural expeditionary on any number of levels.Instrument: electric guitar.Teachers and/or influences? ...