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Take Five With Sarah Montes

by AAJ Staff
November 20, 2011

Meet Sarah Montes: Sarah grew up with very diverse musical influences. Her mother, a professional ballet dancer, had the family record player continually spinning with Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and various Broadway musicals. And when the records stopped, her father played flamenco guitar; singing in syncopated rhythms that inspired Sarah's musical soul. And it was ...

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Take Five With Diego Perugini

by AAJ Staff
November 19, 2011

Meet Diego Perugini: Diego was born in Sarteano, Siena, Italy. A sideman to many important Italian artists, now he has decided to make his own music and... here we are.Instrument(s): Guitar.Teachers and/or influences? I teach in 3 schools in tuscany. The most important artists that changed ...

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Take Five With T. Howard Curtis III

by AAJ Staff
November 14, 2011

Meet Howard Curtis: T. Howard Curtis III, born in Williamburg, VA, but now living and working in Graz, Austria has been enjoying a multifaceted career as jazz drummer, percussionist and educator for over 30 years. He has performed in jazz and other music festivals all over the world, including Paris, Germany, ...

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Take Five With Graham Ling

by AAJ Staff
October 30, 2011

Meet Graham Ling: Classically trained from an early age, I wondered through the '80s not knowing what to listen to or play. Grunge happened to me in a big way, and I rocked throughout my twenties, but come my thirties I was looking for something as challenging as classical but with the raw emotion ...

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Take Five With Lenny Marcus

by AAJ Staff
October 26, 2011

Meet Lenny Marcus: Lenny Marcus hails from Washington, DC, but studied, performed and recorded for many years in New Orleans, LA, before relocating to Roanoke, VA. He is leader on 18 albums, and has studied and recorded with many jazz legends, including David Fathead" Newman, Brian Lynch, Sonny Fortune, Frank Foster, Charlie Byrd, Herb ...

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Take Five With Tommy Vig

by AAJ Staff
October 24, 2011

Meet Tommy Vig: Born to a musical family in Budapest, Tommy Vig was internationally recognized as a child prodigy by the age of six, playing drums with his father, clarinetist Gyorgy Vig. His sense of improvisation, rhythm and energy at that young age made him unique, and he performed live concerts on radio, at ...

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Take Five With Andreas Ulvo

by AAJ Staff
October 21, 2011

Meet Andreas Ulvo: Despite his young age, Andreas Ulvo (b.1983), from Eidskog in Hedmark, has already made a mark for himself on the Norwegian and European jazz scenes. His main projects are his own solo piano project and Eple Trio. Together with the two other members of Eple Trio, he has a Masters degree ...

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Take Five With Rahe

by AAJ Staff
October 18, 2011

Meet Rahe: Composer/guitarist/multilingual vocalist (she speaks fluent Portuguese and Castilian Spanish), Rahe (pronounced “Ray") spent most of her childhood in Japan and Spain (the land of her heritage), before settling in Colorado at 13. Her first profound musical experiences occurred in Andalucia at age five, where she was invited into the Flamenco circles of ...

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Take Five With Paris Toon

by AAJ Staff
October 16, 2011

Meet Paris Toon: The man behind the music is Paris Toon: producer, lyricist, composer and driving force of all that he engages in. Paris ritualistically defaults to his “gut" when the time comes to gather musicians and give birth to new songs. This is the method to his rarely observed madness. Since Mothers Favorite ...

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Take Five With Philip Baumgarten

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2011

Meet Philip Baumgarten: I started out as a bass guitarist, and played salsa in the seventies. My band, Bapao, was successful in The Netherlands, and I played in every important venue. Later on, I switched to double-bass and jazz became my main thing. I've been playing jazz now for many years with many musicians, ...