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Take Five With David Martin

by AAJ Staff
October 5, 2011

Meet David Martin: David Martin was born in Toledo, OH and grew up in Charleston, WV. He graduated from Capital University's Conservatory of Music in Columbus, OH. He is a composer, arranger, teacher, and performer. He played in the Columbus area for several years then moved to Minneapolis, MN and lived there 13 years. ...

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Take Five With Patricia Velasquez

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2011

Meet Patricia Velasquez: Patricia Velasquez began classical piano lessons at the age of four. In Junior High, she began to study jazz. She attended Berklee College of Music in 1987. She has performed at Stepping Out with the South Central Mass Choir; at Ryles for a blues reunion with Shirley Lewis and guests; at ...

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Take Five With Craig Akin

by AAJ Staff
September 29, 2011

Meet Craig Akin: Craig Akin is an in-demand upright and electric bassist living in New York City. Between 1997 and 2007, he averaged 270 gigs a year in his musical hometown of Kansas City. There he developed his rhythm and tone while playing or recording with nearly everyone on the jazz and blues scene. ...

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Take Five With Frank Giasullo

by AAJ Staff
September 24, 2011

Meet Frank Giasullo: The Frank Giasullo Quartet has created a distinctive sound, enhanced by its strong repertoire of original compositions by Frank Giasullo. Giasullo is a classically trained jazz player but his piano playing and the music he writes comes as much out of his feeling for gospel, folk, and blues ...

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Take Five With Lauren Henderson

by AAJ Staff
September 24, 2011

Meet Lauren Henderson:Lauren Henderson is a Massachusetts-born singer and songwriter. With eclectic vocal influences and a style that spreads across genres, she produces a distinct yet versatile sound. Her diverse musical background is rooted in jazz and expands to rhythm and blues, Latin, soul, gospel, classical, fusion, neo-soul, pop, Nuevo-flamenco and many other forms. ...

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Take Five With Jake Hertzog

by AAJ Staff
September 22, 2011

Meet Jake Hertzog: Jake Hertzog's accomplishments as a jazz musician mesh with his love for the rock idiom, creating almost an entirely new musical language. His new album, Evolution, co- produced by the great jazz bassist Harvie S, the original compositions (except for Jake's version of Bruce Springsteen's “Streets of Philadelphia") have been mastered ...

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Take Five With Laura Ainsworth

by AAJ Staff
September 19, 2011

Meet Laura Ainsworth: I was born in Los Angeles but came to Dallas as a tot when my dad, jazz sax/clarinetist Billy Ainsworth, relocated to become a part of the growing commercial recording industry. Came up in the music biz (details to follow!). Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Radio-TV-Film. ...

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Take Five With Josh Nelson

by AAJ Staff
September 16, 2011

Meet Josh Nelson: Josh Nelson, born and raised in Southern California, maintains an active and creative schedule as a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and recording artist. At 33 years old, he has already performed with some of the most respected names in jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, Robert Hurst, Jeff Hamilton, Ralph Moore, ...

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Take Five With Torben Waldorff

by AAJ Staff
August 18, 2011

Meet Torben Waldorff: Born and raised in Denmark. Went to Berklee for four years. Have two CDs out on Swedish label LJ-Records. Signed with ArtistShare in New York 2006, with three CDs out--Brilliance, Afterburn and American Rock Beauty, all with saxophonist Donny McCaslin, a friend from the Berklee days, plus drummer Jon Wikan and ...

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Take Five With Simone Gubbiotti

by AAJ Staff
August 14, 2011

Meet Simone Gubbiotti: Played and recorded with Joe LaBarbera, Darek Oles, Marco Panascia, Sid Jacobs, Tim Welvaars. Coming up next album with Peter Erskine on drums and Oles on bass. Instrument(s): Guitar. Teachers and/or influences? Joe Diorio, Sid Jacobs, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter... and ...