Revisiting Weather Report article @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title=”” title=””>Alex Acuña in Weather Report band / ensemble / orchestra ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Weather Report. In the spring of 2025, acclaimed vocalist ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Kurt Elling embarks on a new project celebrating the music of Weather Report. As the tour nears its end, Erskine will join for a select few performances, including a stop […]
Berlin and Beyond article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Kinan Azmeh: Berlin and Beyond Courtesy Peter Adamik It’s little known that for the first maybe two years of the uprising, the people used to sing songs in support of the other cities that were bombed or shot at. So at some point in 2011 or 2012, this […]
On Togetherness, The 3 Cohens and The Art of Interaction article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Anat Cohen and Oded Lev-Ari: On Togetherness, The 3 Cohe… Courtesy Shervin Lainez As clarinetist ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Anat Cohen and arranger ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Oded Lev-Ari sit down to chat on a frigid February morning, they’re completely cognizant of a pair of major milestones on the horizon in early […]
Leaving It All Out There article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Stephen Davis: Leaving It All Out There It’s almost like technique goes out the window … you rise above technique, and all these approaches you learn, and find something personal about yourself and really leave it out there. Stephen Davis ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Anthony Braxton asked Northern Irish […]
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 […]