Meet Andy Bey article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Meet Andy Bey If you can’t handle the things around you, if you don’t know how to adjust to your surroundings and understanding what happiness is not… when you understand what happiness is not, then you arrive at what happiness is. From the 1995-2003 archive: This article […]
Making Things article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Sam Sadigursky: Making Things Courtesy Amanda Berche With this instrumentation we can play anywhere. We just need two armless chairs. I really love that about it. Some of the most meaningful concerts have been in artist salons and people’s homes. We played a concert a few […]
Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Savina Yannatou: Letting the Voice Go Where It Goes Courtesy Spiros Perdiou So all this imagination of the water as the element of life, how important it is, how it is connected with birth and with our sexual life, all this was important to me to start to […]
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 […]