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Take Five With Crystal Waters

by AAJ Staff
Meet Crystal Waters:When you hear the name Crystal Waters, you immediately think of a woman whose talent and brand has sustained her 20-year career, yet the breadth of her work continues to engage new fans and please her enormous base.She is best known for her string of domestic and international number one ...
Take Five With Dan Lehner

by AAJ Staff
Meet Daniel Lehner:Dan Lehner is a freelance trombonist, composer and educator in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Born in Hamilton, New Jersey, Lehner briefly attended University of the Arts in Philadelphia before finishing his undergraduate degree in Jazz Studies at William Paterson University, studying under New York trombonists John Mosca and Tim Newman, ...
Take Five With Andrea Dutra

by AAJ Staff
Meet Andréa Dutra:Andréa Dutra is a Brazilian singer from Rio de Janeiro. Her most important influences are MPB (popular Brazilian music), samba and jazz. She has worked with many important Brazilian musicians like Tim Maia, Seu Jorge, Sandra de Sa, Danilo Caymmi and others, all over Brazil. Andrea was nominated for the most important ...
Take Five With Judy Dyble

by AAJ Staff
Meet Judy Dyble:1949: I was born;1964ish: Joined first band, Judy & the Folkmen. Didn't make record;1968ish: Joined second band, Fairport Convention. Made record, Fairport Convention;1969ish: Joined third band, Giles Giles &Fripp, McDonald & Dyble. Made record, The Brondesbury Tapes;1970ish: Joined fourth band, Trader Horne. Made record ...
Take Five With Joy Divine

by AAJ Staff
Meet Joy Divine:The power of music is my inspiration. The simple truth is, I love to sing. Anyone who knows me would say, I'm a passionate advocate for keeping music alive, no matter what. Anyone who knows me would also say I am a passionate advocate for keeping music alive in your life, no ...
Take Five With Andrei Covaciu-Pogorilowski

by AAJ Staff
Meet Andrei Covaciu-Pogorilowski:Andrei Pogorilowski was born in Bucharest, Romania, in February 1968. Starting with 1982, he studied music independently, helped by several private professors.In 1989 Andrei started to hear a strange yet beautiful music in his head that he was unable to notate. Short excerpts were presented on the piano to his ...
Take Five With Jeffrey Gimble

by AAJ Staff
Meet Jeffrey Gimble: Born and raised in Houston, TX, Gimble grew up going to the gigs of his saxophone-playing father Maynard, who had a popular big band in the '60s and '70s. Despite his natural curiosity for jazz, he was drawn instead to become an actor and musical theater performer and graduated from Houston's ...
Take Five with Aruan Ortiz

by AAJ Staff
Meet Aruan Ortiz: Named the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States" by BET Jazz, this classically trained violist and pianist from Santiago de Cuba, considers himself a curious person who loves music," and portrays his music as an architectural structure of sounds, incorporating contemporary classical music, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and improvisation as primary material ...
Take Five with Ted Sirota

by AAJ Staff
Meet Ted Sirota: Veteran Chicago drummer, Ted Sirota, has been playing the drums since 1980. Ted has lead his own band, Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, since 1996. Rebel Souls have recorded five CD's for the Naim & Delmark labels. Ted has also played every Saturday night from 12:30-5:00am at Chicago's top jazz club, The Green Mill, ...
Take Five With Jens Persson

by AAJ Staff
Meet Jens Persson: Started playing the alto saxophone when I was about 14. The music was mostly swing and bebop in the beginning but has developed over the years.I play in all kinds of bands: swing, reggae, free improv, big bands and more.I have my own group, Perssons Sexa (Perssons Six), which ...