Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe The feeling of making music is sort of a constant out of body experience because there is no time. Jenny Scheinman Play your violin for us like that wild, joyful hippie girl. You who look as if you might have come […]
A Fireside Chat With Lou Donaldson article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » A Fireside Chat With Lou Donaldson We didn’t have big contracts back then. They were put together quick, so there wasn’t a whole lot of rehearsing and practicing… We would go over and figure out what we were going to play and make the record. They were around […]
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing State article @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title=”” title=””>Georgie Fame, Michael Franks, Rickie Lee Jones, Mose Allison piano and vocals1927 – 2016 ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Mose Allison), an author, podcaster, radio and television host and a historian. He was part of the early Steve Miller Band with Boz Scaggs and has recorded 35 albums in 50 of the 81 years he has […]
Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz One of the things that is important for me and my role at JazzArts is to make sure that the audience is getting access and exposure to a wide variety of high quality jazz music. In the ’90s, fierce jazz curator, […]
Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art When I sing jazz, it is not about specific lines, scales or arpeggios that sound jazzy. But more so just fitting in where the spirit of the stage is in at the time, and the groove. As I do this, it becomes […]
20 Years of Abstract Logix article @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title title>Jimmy Herring, Col. Bruce Hampton, Wayne Krantz guitar, electric ” data-original-title title>Wayne Krantz, ” data-original-title title>Gary Husband, ” data-original-title title>Scott Kinsey, ” data-original-title title>Gary Willis, ” data-original-title title>Oz Noy and on and on. It’s also quite possible you may have even encountered him as well. Along the way to adding Grammy-winning producer to […]
A Conversation with Charlie Hunter article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » A Conversation with Charlie Hunter Charlie Christian is the first guitar player I heard that, to me, was a bridge between the blues and that kind of stuff I was playing and the jazz that I would later play. This article was first published at All About Jazz […]
Guitar Master article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Russell Malone: Guitar Master There’s something about singers. For me, they know how to get the most out of a song and out of a lyric, regardless of genre. Russell Malone This article was first published on All About Jazz on February 29, 2016. “People make too big […]
My Conversation with John Fedchock article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » My Conversation with John Fedchock I can go to any country and barely say hello to somebody, but go up on the stage and play with them and communicate, and it’s unbelievable. And a lot of people don’t get that part of it, but that’s the great thing […]
My Conversation with Anthony Braxton article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » My Conversation with Anthony Braxton I believe the third millennium will be a trans-ethnocentric thought unit… It won’t be only Africa. It won’t be only Europe. It won’t be only Asia. In the system that I have been working on, it is a system that celebrates a mediation […]