Zach Phillips Believes Harmony Does Not End With Writing article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Fievel Is Glauque: Zach Phillips Believes Harmony Does N… Courtesy BanjoZebra People, myself included, are mostly going to use music to try to understand themselves, and will often fight tooth and nail to defend whatever construction serves that interest. Zach Phillips ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Fievel Is Glauque is […]
Introducing Pianist Holly Bean article @ All About Jazz
This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. For Holly Bean, in her last semester at Juilliard, it was the summit of a long journey that began when, as a three-year-old, she started playing on the piano in her Oak Ridge, TN, home. “I would hop on top of the bench and try to copy […]
Rethinking Duke Ellington article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Jack Chambers: Rethinking Duke Ellington Courtesy Bettmann Archive People who know Ellington’s music today are likely to think of him as a songwriter. He deserves to be lauded as a composer, and especially as a composer who invented and promulgated concert music that is distinctively New […]
Animated Indeed article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Multiple Reviews » Vince Guaraldi: Animated Indeed ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Vince Guaraldi had already made a name for himself before he became progenitor of soundtracks for the animated television programs based on Charles M. Schulz’ ‘Peanuts’ characters. Accordingly, it is arguable that, even as Guaraldi enthusiastically embraced his new opportunity, he […]
Two Enhanced Solo Piano Sets article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Multiple Reviews » Piano Plus: Two Enhanced Solo Piano Sets The addition of electronics opens up a flavor of timelessness, as if Sgobbio is making music of eternity. Is the piano enough? ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Keith Jarrett, notably, made a big name for himself with his improvised solo piano outings. […]
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 […]
Voices article @ All About Jazz
Ian is dedicated to the promotion of jazz and all creative music all over the world, and to catching just a little piece of it for himself. EditorSince 2006Belfast, United Kingdom Preferred album format:CD/Vinyl MY ARTICLES | ALBUM REVIEWS | PROFILE PAGE Total published articles:1,217 Contact Me Follow Me Musical Preferences African JazzBluesElectronicaFree Improv / […]
The Not-So-Simple Art Of Book Reviewing article @ All About Jazz
Jazz books occupy a tiny sector of the publishing industry, within which any book selling between 500-1000 copies counts as a success. Biographies of major figures might command mid-four figure sales but even then come nowhere near troubling the best-seller tables in the New York Times or Guardian. On All About Jazz, between 900 book […]
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 […]