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Russ Gershon
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December 2003 - Russ Gershon and his Boston-based Either/Orchestra have been playing
musical tricks for 18 years, recombining elements from throughout the
history of jazz in fun, funny and often surprising ways. The E/O has
undergone many personnel changes over those years, and while the music may have changed accordingly in some subtle ways - recent releases sound a bit more controlled...
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Artist Interview by Richard C. Anderson
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Yaron Gershovsky
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- If you are a film producer and are looking for someone to write the score for your next blockbuster movie—Hello! The one thing Yaron Gershovsky hasn’t done and would still like to do is write the score for a major motion picture. Gershovsky’s impressive resume includes the Manhattan Transfer, working on several major Broadway productions including Swing and City...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
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October 2006 - Some of the
finest brass players in the world blow a spirited welcome on the opening and
title track to Dizzy’s Business.
Eighteen musicians including guest Roy Hargrove appear on this wonderful CD.
Slide Hampton directs and Roberta Gambarini blesses our ears with her wonderful
vocals. It is impossible to list all of the great musicians who comprise the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Frode Gjerstad
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- The fact that Frode Gjerstad’s photo doesn’t automatically come to mind for those familiar with the free jazz family tree doesn’t daunt the affable Norwegian. Even in his own small country where the melodic work of international star Jan Garbarek is the norm, the fire breathing alto saxophonist was ignored for years. “Jan was the role model,” says Gjerstad...
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Artist Interview by Lee Prosser
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Frode Gjerstad
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- Frode Gjerstad hails from Norway and has created a body
of work that is solidly free improvised music but which also shows influences
from such different genres as rock, rap, and classical. Ultima, his most recent
release on Cadence Jazz Records, features Gjerstad in the company of bassist
William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. He has also recently completed...
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Artist Interview by Micah Holmquist
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David Gogo
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- He still hasn’t reached his fortieth birthday, but blues guitarist, singer/songwriter David Gogo has twice been named Maple Blues Guitarist of the Year in his native Canada. This spring his current album Acoustic: Official Bootleg Series- Volume 2 was nominated for a Juno Award, the nation’s equivalent of a Grammy. In 2004, the blues man was named as the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Benny Golson
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April 2006 - A while ago I started interviewing and writing about George Russell and I fell
in love with his latest album New
York N.Y., which was originally
released on Decca. The line up of musicians on the album is absolutely
incredible so I decided that I would try to speak with as many of the musicians
who had played on...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Jeff Golub
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- Communication is important to guitarist Jeff Golub. He says, sometimes the communication is just a glance or an unspoken acknowledgement on a subway train, while in line at a newsstand or as you brush past someone at a corner grocery. Before he got married, he says, my old life was great. I loved being a bachelor. I loved meeting...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Gordon Goodwin
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July 2006 - Inspired by creative genius, fueled by love for their art, driven by high energy, and delivering with impeccable performance, the Big Phat Band infuses their complex musical arrangements with plenty of humor and fun.
There’s never a dull moment nor lack of variety with Gordon Goodwin and his latest CD-DVD release, The Phat Pack, consisting of Goodwin’s Big Band...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band
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November 2003 - What thrills West Coast composer/conductor, saxophonist and pianist, Gordon Goodwin the most? Is it “XXL?” His three Emmy Awards? Being nominated for a Grammy twice? Does his personal musical work in movies and television (scoring, composing, and arranging) give him the biggest sense of accomplishment? Well, those things add happiness and financial...
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Artist Interview by Carla Rupp
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Wycliffe Gordon
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September 2006 - If you are a fan of jazz music and you haven't heard of Wycliffe Gordon, you have to get dialed in now! You have probably heard people make statements about other artists such as, "It is almost like he/she makes that instrument talk." Well Gordon does indeed give a human voice to his Edwards 500 bore trombone and he...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Jeff Gordon & Denise Montana
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- JAZZREVIEW.COM: Denise Montana, Jeff
Gordon, it is a pleasure to interview you! Your new eleven selection CD release
JUST THINK OF IT is an exciting and wonderful creation! But first, before we
get to that point, let's go back to the beginnings and share things with the
readers and listeners leading up to this point! Let's start by asking,...
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Artist Interview by Lee Prosser
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Danny Gottleib
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- If you don't know
drummer Danny Gottleib or you know him from only the earliest incarnations of
the Pat Metheny Group, there's a lot you don't know about this talented,
multi-faceted musician. Not complacent to rest on past laurels of any kind,
Gottleib currently juggles percussion duties with more groups and ensembles
than many work with in a lifetime,...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Markus Gottschlich
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June 2008 - The piano is a extension of Markus Gottschlich’s personality as truly as the
trumpet was a conduit for Dizzy Gillespie’s voice, and the guitar is another
appendage that Eric Clapton was born with so natural in his hands.
Nobody could imagine either Gillespie or Clapton without their instruments,
which is something that both men have in common with Gottschlich. ...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Jerry Granelli
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- Drummer Jerry Granelli was an active member of the psychedelic music that was being fostered in the San Francisco Bay area during the ‘60s. He considers himself a "pre-hippie," coming into fashion before the members of The Grateful Dead and The Mamas and The Papas. And though it seems like a world away from his current album The Sonic Temple with his present...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Darrell Grant
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- Conventional wisdom says that if you want to play jazz, New York City is where you have to be. Yet after a decade of NYC life, pianist, composer, producer and all around jazz renaissance man Darrell Grant made a strong move west ending up in Portland, Oregon. A teaching stint at Portland State University got him there, but the...
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Artist Interview by Bill Smith
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Frank Gratkowski
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- Free jazz saxophonist Frank Gratkowski portrays himself as an improvisational musician whose best material comes out when he is most vulnerable, performing live and being on the spot searching inside himself and feeling his way around the chords on his saxophone.
“Actually most of my recordings are live recordings,” he remarks, “and I think I'm more open in a...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Jay Graydon
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- Jay Graydon is a much-celebrated artist wearing many hats, producing a staggering body of work that encompasses a full spectrum of disciplines in the music industry. This body of work transcends rock, pop and jazz with equal vigor and success. Mr. Graydon has been awarded two Grammy wins and ten more nominations for songwriting, performance, arranging, engineering...
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Artist Interview by Ron Miller
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Benny Green and Russell Malone
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- Dr. Billy Taylor says that Benny Green and Russell Malone are “….the future of jazz.” Taylor was among the members of a packed audience during the first of two spectacular performances by Green and Malone at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center Jazz Club. During the performance, members of the audience frequently voiced their approval and support for the performers’...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Erik Greenberg Anjou
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- Who are The Klezmatics? Filmmaker Erik Greenberg Anjou takes audiences into the microcosm of this group in his new documentary film, The Klezmatics: On Sacred Ground, set for a 2009 release. The Klezmatics, whose name is derived from the term “klezmer,” which is a traditional style of dance music practiced by a sect of Eastern European Jews that date...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Chris Greene
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August 2008 - Chris Greene describes his quartet and their music with a few phrases that
takes audiences into the heart of the band, “We’re a small band of
only four members. We don’t require a large light show, pre-recorded tracks
or a super fancy PA system to give a good show. Each one of the members of the
band is proficient in...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Lloyd Gregory
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- "Music is comprised of traditions, even when mixed with innovations," Gregory says, “so of course, every musician is building upon sounds that came before. I admire and respect those jazz guitarists and I learned a lot from them. But my influences also include early soul innovators like Curtis Mayfield, many of the guitarists in the various Motown artists’...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Brian Groder
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- January 2007 - It is uncomforting to hear that there are ensemble directors today who question the validity of using improvisation as a criterion for adjudicating young jazz students in competition. This démodé mindset hampers the progression and expression of players – and the music - and what for? If players aren’t emboldened to unleash their inner creative spirit,...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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Russell Gunn
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February 2005 - Soft spoken, innovative—even a little ahead of his time, trumpeter Russell Gunn is making headlines across the country with his fourth album in the series: Ethnomusicology
Nominated twice for the Grammy, this series winds up with Volume Four, a live collection blending jazz, hip-hop, R&B and slipping in an Ira & George Gershwin tune, Summertime. If that...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Kate Hammett-Vaughan
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- It is a shame that Vancouver, BC singer Kate
Hammett-Vaughan has been performing for 30 years, starting as a child in church
choirs in her native Nova Scotia, and this is her first CD as leader of her own
group. But the deprivation will be more easily borne now that she has released
"How My Heart Sings", a collection...
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Artist Interview by Josephine Ochej
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