A Conversation in 1977 article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Chet Baker: A Conversation in 1977 Baker doesn’t agree with many critics that East Coast music is really more emotional than West Coast, unless you can get emotional about volume, or how many choruses somebody can play without getting tired, or how fast you can play. This interview […]
150 Albums, Grammys And An Unrelenting Pursuit of Music article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Vicente Archer: 150 Albums, Grammys And An Unrelenting P… I offer myself, my heart, and my love for my instrument as well the love for myself, to the people I perform with. Vicente Archer An instrument created in the 1500s, the acoustic bass has become […]
No Safety Net, No Overdubs, Just Pure and Original article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Russell Gunn: No Safety Net, No Overdubs, Just Pure and Original Courtesy Shahar Azron For me, if a song doesn’t have, not just a clearly recognizable melody but a clearly interesting melody, then I don’t really have any use for it as a song. Russell Gunn One […]
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 […]