A Solitary Visionary in Jazz article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Catching Up With » Collin Sherman: A Solitary Visionary in Jazz I’ll start with a foundation—maybe electronic percussion or harmonic layers—and add horns last. I rarely do more than one take. First take, best take. The first reaction is always the most honest. —Collin Sherman ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Collin […]

Nils Winther article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Chats with Cats » The Label Head: Nils Winther There are not that many independent companies left. Most of the ones doing good business are digging out old recordings instead of making new ones. —Nils Winther Talk to anyone from around the jazz business and they’ll […]

Naomi Moon Siegel Opens Up and Evolves article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Catching Up With » Naomi Moon Siegel Opens Up and Evolves I don’t need to hold things so preciously, I don’t need to put things on a pedestal…those tendencies were preventing me from being more in the world and experiencing my surroundings —Naomi Moon Siegel ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Naomi Moon […]

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 […]

Sara Serpa at The Stone article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Live Review » Radical Community: Sara Serpa at The Stone Courtesy Adam Beaudoin I like to think that more than political, my work is humanist. What does it mean to be human, to live, to witness this world? How do we bring attention to what matters to us? How can […]

Take Five with Vocalist Teodora Brody article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Take Five With… » Take Five with Vocalist Teodora Brody Meet Teodora Brody Born in Romania, and now based in Switzerland, Teodora Brody initially trained in classical jazz and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s singing with legendary jazz pianist ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Johnny Raducanu . Acclaimed […]

Introducing Saxophonist Veronica Leahy article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Rising Stars » Introducing Saxophonist Veronica Leahy She turned everyone’s heads in the band, including Wynton Marsalis’. —Ted Nash ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Veronica Leahy began playing classical piano at an early age. Then, when she was in the fourth grade, she heard a recording by tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman saxophoneb.1969 ” […]

Smatter article @ All About Jazz

Home » Jazz Articles » Play This! » Kenny Wheeler: Smatter ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Kenny Wheeler, offers the chance to hear several grandmasters of jazz concoct high-energy music together. For Wheeler’s debut on ECM Records, Gnu High (ECM, 1976), he gathered the creative forces of ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette drumsb.1942 ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Jack DeJohnette […]

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, […]

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