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Charlie Fishman
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Watching Charlie Fishman at work is an exercise in perpetual motion. He is everywhere at once, making sure that details are taken care of for the latest Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. The festival is his personal campaign to awaken and enlighten jazz enthusiasts to the unlimited possibilities that Washington, D.C. offers. There is always music playing, whether it is...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Bela Fleck
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“I was driving around Nashville when I stopped to get a Coke. I was only going to be a minute so I left my banjo in the car, but when I got back someone had broken in and left another banjo!” Ok, we’ve probably all heard that one a time or two and I’m sure Bela Fleck’s heard it...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Elli Fordyce
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There is an old cliché that goes something like this, ‘If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck.’ That cliché may apply to some people and most certainly is applicable to ducks, but it relates in no way to the life of jazz singer Elli Fordyce or the attitude with which...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Mitch Forman
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Think of all the
performers you know who've performed or recorded with Wayne Shorter, Pat
Metheny, Gary Burton, Mike Stern, John Scofield and John McGlaughlin. Ok, what
about adding Andy Summers, Enrique Iglasias and Stan Getz plus one who runs his
own label for which he does his own solo piano and group recordings as well as
records other...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Mike Formanek
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"Without some discomfort there is no growth."
Witness an album like "Wide Open Spaces" and you'll know what this means. There's certainly no discomfort in listening to it. It’s an anthem to the restlessness that drives improvisational music…to those unquantifiable, unexpected qualities that make it unique and alive, often surprising even its purveyors as they create...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Fourplay
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Salivating fans, awaiting the newest arrival, can now take a breath as Fourplay releases their latest album, Energy, on their debut with Heads Up label.
Captivating hearts for more than a decade, Fourplay brings together four of the hottest talents today—each member a musical genius, mega-star in his own right. Blending R&B, pop and jazz, Fourplay creates a distinct...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Mimi Fox
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Although her album is called “She’s The Woman,” it’s more likely you’ll walk away going, “She’s just plain amazing!” Mimi Fox’s name has been circulating rapidly throughout the jazz guitar community for years as a new force in jazz guitar. However, for those who know her better, it goes beyond the chops; Mimi is a diverse, accomplished...
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Artist Interview by Fred Gerantab
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Dave Frank
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Avant-garde jazz pianist Dave Franks’ humor can sometimes be as surreal as the paintings of Salvador Dali, whose paintings served as the inspiration behind the song “Salvador Dali in a State of Grace.” Frank will joke about where Dali might be now or about playing a private concert for Picasso. He talks about his own music using descriptive metaphors.
“Salvador Dali...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Dave Frank
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Dave Frank, the slightly zany, incurably creative
pianist, composer, author, and educator, lives in Medford, MA. When you ask
Frank about his current plans, be prepared for the barrage. You feel guilty
you're taking up his time by asking the question! As we speak Dave has several
concert/clinic tours upcoming in the US and around the world.
Dave
Frank...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Nnenna Freelon
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Nnenna Freelon’s profile has been on the rise among jazz listeners, as well as among the general listening public. Part of the reason may lie in the integrity that she projects through her music and her choice of songs. Another part of her growing popularity may lie in her interest in the universal themes all people share, such as...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Rob Fried
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To say that jazz bassist/composer Rob Fried thinks outside the box, and that his music is complex, would be enormous understatements. To say that his songs on the current album Wind Song leave you feeling relaxed and immersed in their many moods would be a truer statement. Unlike so many sophisticated writers whose music is wonderful but sometimes leave...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Erik Friedlander
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There are but a handful of well-known improvisers who call the cello their main instrument: Hank Roberts, Vincent Courtois, David Darling, Fred Katz…and Erik Friedlander. Erik Friedlander has been steadily building an impressive body of work over the past ten years that has seen him emerge as the cellist on call for the New York downtown scene. ...
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Artist Interview by David Binder
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Joe Fuentes
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JazzReview.com:
It has been a year and a half since we sat in Cafe de la Press in San
Francisco and talked about your upcoming CD, "A Good Cup of Joe." I'm sure our
readers would like to hear the inside story on how you were picked up by
Instinct Jazz?
Joe Fuentes: "There are a lot of...
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Joe Fuentes
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Where would you find Joe
Fuentes hangin' out when he's not performing in and around San Francisco?--a
coffee house naturally! In fact, some of his best compositions are inspired in
just such a place, like the selection, Slow Brew, from his soon to be released
CD, "A Good Cup of Joe." Over Cappuccino and Latté at Cafe de la...
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Sakoto Fujii
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JazzReview: What Japanese musicians influenced your style of playing early on in your career?
Satoko Fujii: My idol early on was Fumio Itabashi, a Japanese jazz pianist who was in Ray Anderson's band and Elvin Jones's band. I went to jazz clubs in Tokyo to listen to his playing very often. Finally I asked him for lessons....
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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Satoko Fujii
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Piano player Satoko Fujii has defied conventions throughout her career as she has sought to find her own voice among the wide variety of musical influences she has received--and sought out. Having studied classical piano throughout her childhood, Fujii finally reached the point in her development where she found it most important to become introspective and discover, first, her...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Taeko Fukao
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Taeko Fukao, a name widely known now, but in the very near future, artiste
Taeko the talent, will be synonymous with harmonic ingenuity and inventive
musicality. Taeko has unearthed emotional jazz both in performance and concept.
Talents are hidden beneath this Japanese born musical philosopher with a range
that is refreshingly crisp. Taeko also has a gift of putting fear...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Derrick Gardner
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Derrick Gardner, jazz trumpeter, composer, educator and arranger has shared his love of music since arriving in New York in 1991, where he worked with some of the top musicians of the world. After five years in the Count Basie Orchestra, plus work with Frank Foster’s Loud Minority Band, Harry Connick Jr.’s Big Band, and The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Tim Garland
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Since the early 1990s, woodwind multi-instrumentalist Tim Garland has been one of England’s best-kept secrets. Emerging on the international scene three years ago as a member of Chick Corea’s band Origin, Garland’s career has since kicked into high gear and is a secret no longer. With projects that reflect his diversity and far-reaching instrumental and compositional capabilities,...
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Artist Interview by John Kelman
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Kenny Garrett
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So long as there are musicians like Kenny Garrett around, jazz has nothing to worry about. Garrett’s one off those players who gets into the music, penning compelling compositions, then exploring them deeply and thoroughly with a band of hand-picked, like-minded musicians.
The saxophonist has a new CD out, Standard of Language, and, as on his 10 earlier discs, it...
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Artist Interview by Richard C. Anderson
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Luis Gasca
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“I’m gonna tell you one thing; life is beautiful, and we’re hanging out listening to Miles Davis. Hey! how about the Sugar Time Lounge, mama?” I peer to my left out the car window and see a windowless bar on a curved street. It's the middle of the day, East side. I look at him,...
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Artist Interview by Nisa Onofre (Guest Writer)
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Sara Gazarek
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Richard Dreyfuss received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Glenn Holland, a musician/composer turned high school music teacher, in the wonderful film Mr. Holland’s Opus. Holland is forced into retirement when the school board cuts funding for his department. Near the end of the movie, there is a warm scene that always prompts tears from yours truly, as his...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Grant Geissman
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Guitarist Grant Geissman, who played a classic solo on Chuck Mangione's Feel So Good, is standing up against smooth jazz radio programmers. He says they are just like people who want to colorize old movies. However, he says, "It's worse than that because it's saying 'we like this part of your movie, but we don't like this part, so...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Grant Geissman
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Through the years jazz has come to mean different things to different people, branching and rejoining itself in a myriad of styles. Here is one jazz performer defining and redefining what jazz means today.
A San Jose native, who later moved to the Los Angeles area, Geissman grew up on the sounds of the Beatles, Eric Clapton, surf guitar...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Chris Geith
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Chris Geith (pronounced “guy-t”) is one of the lucky few who actually knew what he wanted to do with the rest of his life from the moment he was able to climb up on a piano stool and sit beside his father. He would watch his father move his nimble fingers across the black and white keys of the...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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