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Take Five with Francisco Quintero

by AAJ Staff
May 19, 2018

About Francisco Quintero Francisco Quintero is a guitarist, composer, arranger and producer born and raised in Venezuela. He attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in 2009, where he obtained a degree in instrumental performance, and also holds a master's degree in Jazz Studies from Northern Illinois University. He has studied with artists such ...

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Take Five with Mark Haskins

by AAJ Staff
April 17, 2018

About Mark Haskins Music in the Haskins' household was as much a second language as English or Spanish is to another. Mark Haskins' late father was a violinist and his sister a music teacher. So there was always a tune coming from some part of the house. Mark's room though was flooded with the sounds of ...

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Take Five with Tarek Yamani

by AAJ Staff
April 12, 2018

About Tarek Yamani Born and raised in Beirut, Tarek is an American-Lebanese New York based self-taught jazz pianist who has been dedicated to exploring relationships between African-American Jazz and Arabic rhythms/maqams which are most evident in his second album Lisan Al Tarab: Jazz Conceptions in Classical Arabic, and in his newly released Peninsular which ...

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Take Five With the Anansi Trio

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2018

About Anansi Trio We are a group of like-minded musicians drawing from a wide range of musical influences. Using the language of jazz as our starting point, we use elements of Afro-Cuban and Indian music as well as other global traditions. With a diverse rhythmic approach and a focus on improvisation, we hope to ...

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Take Five with Myriam Phiro

by AAJ Staff
March 2, 2018

About Myriam Phiro Myriam Phiro is an internationally-recognized French-Canadian actress, jazz singer, dancer and cabaret chanteuse who has performed on stages and in theaters worldwide. Her recent performances include sold-out concerts at world-famous the Rainbow Room, 54 Below, the Iridium Jazz club & Metropolitan Room in NYC as well as at Montreal's International Jazz ...

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Take Five with Tat Yoshinaga

by AAJ Staff
February 28, 2018

About Tatsuya Yoshinaga Tatsuya “Tat" Yoshinaga is an award-winning, multi-instrumentalist currently residing in the U.S. Tat, who is originally from Japan, came to Boston to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music. After much success as a performer and teacher, he now calls Boston his home. He plays and teaches piano, keys, guitar, ukulele, ...

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Dave Douglas: From Revolution to Revelation

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 19, 2018

A bird's eye view of the artistic path carved over the years by Dave Douglas reveals both the density and the breadth of his interests. Like tributaries flowing through a complex maze into a sprawling lake, each one of his countless projects explores a different sonic aspect of contemporary music. Yet, they all move towards a ...

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Take Five with Chris Abelen

by AAJ Staff
February 13, 2018

About Chris Abelen Chris Abelen started, as many trombonists, with the trumpet (at the age of 11). At the age of 18 he switched to the trombone. He studied classical trombone with Charles Toet and Henri Aarts, and after four years moved to Amsterdam to study jazz and improvised music with Willem van Manen, ...

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Take Five with Andrew Kushnir

by AAJ Staff
February 11, 2018

About Andrew Kushnir Montreal born drummer,Andrew Kushnir first came onto the Canadian Music scene when he joined the acclaimed Franco Proietti Morph-Tet at the age of 17 as a DJ/Turntablist. With the Morph-tet , Andrew went on to record three albums (Morphology, Like The Shore is to The Ocean, and Live at St. Ambroise) ...

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Take Five with Naama Gheber

by AAJ Staff
February 7, 2018

About Naama Gheber Naama Gheber is a New York-based jazz vocalist inspired by the emotionally direct compositions of Rodgers and Hart, Fields and Hugh, Cole Porter and other great composers and lyricist of the 1930's and '40's. Possessed with an urbane and elegant voice, Gheber's sensitive interpretation and crisp phrasing have become recognizable elements ...