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Karrin Allyson
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June 2004 - One of the most adventurous singers around, Karrin Allyson once again does the unexpected.
On her latest CD, the Grammy-nominated performer revisits the music that she listened to while growing up in Omaha. “Wild For You” (Concord Records) features songs by Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Elton John, Jimmy Webb and Melissa Manchester. But, don’t expect straightforward covers. Allyson and...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Karrin Allyson
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- In recent years, singer Karrin Allyson has won a hard-earned reputation as one of the most innovative singers in jazz as well as one who takes risks with her music. The Nebraska native, and current New York resident, followed up her Grammy nominated Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane with the recently released In Blue, a bold album featuring recastings of...
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Artist Interview by Charles Sudo
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Gabriela Anders
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December 2004 - Argentinean jazz singer, Gabriela Anders, paid close attention to the music that surrounded her while growing up.
Her father, saxophonist Jorge Anders, played jazz, but also listened to tango, Cuban and other music around the house.
All of these different influences converge on Anders’ “Last Tango in Rio,” an album that is uniquely nostalgic and contemporary. Anders covers classics associated...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Lori Andrews
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- When most people think about a harp, they think of music that's heavenly and classical. Lori Andrews has shattered that notion as she has become one of the best jazz harpists around. She says, there's not that many jazz harpists around. Deborah Hensen Conant, who is just extraordinary. There's actually two in Los Angeles, Carol Robbins and Corky Hale,...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Marc Antoine
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- Guitarist Marc Antoine has established himself as a musician who brings out a distinctive sound mixing classical, Latin jazz and flamenco styles. This style has helped him gain momentum in the smooth jazz genre to release CDs that consistently top the charts. However, his latest CD "Modern Times" brings about a different sound to Antoine's repertoire. He says, "Although...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Marc Antoine
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October 2003 - Having just released his new CD, “Mediterraneo,” on September 23, 2003, Marc Antoine commands your attention with a world beat in a sea of jazzy currents. The songs on the album are distinctly spicy. You can almost taste the flavors of a quaint café in Madrid or imagine yourself on a distant shore.
“This record was a new thing...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Jeff Antoniuk
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- At the end of February, I had a chance to visit and dine with Washington DC saxophonist Jeff Antoniuk who was returning to his native Canada for the week,to act as an adjudicator for a province wide high school jazz competition. Most of our conversation focused on his new CD Here Today, his debut solo effort in which he...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Tatsu Aoki
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- If one were to ask a jazz musician or serious jazz listener in Chicago about Tatsu Aoki, chances are that they're aware of the Tokyo-born bassist, who moved to Chicago in 1978 from a brief stay in New York. “It was either (Chicago) or New Orleans,” Aoki said. “In New York, I couldn’t get a good read on...
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Artist Interview by Charles Sudo
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Susie Arioli
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February 2006 - On the new album, “Learn to Smile Again,” from the Susie Arioli band, there is a sound--a sound that you do not usually hear on recordings. It's faint, but there. What is it you ask? Perhaps it's something that should have been taken off the final product. The sound is breathing--Susie Arioli's breathing to be exact, and it's there...
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Artist Interview by Jim McElroy
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Lynne Arriale
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October 2006 - Lynne Arriale’s music has been crossing demographic boundaries by thrilling both non-jazz and jazz fans alike ever since her CD Live at Montreux catapulted her to the forefront of the jazz community. Her lyrical style and her dedication in selecting material that allows interactive conversations from all styles of music (Beatles to Monk), has placed Arriale on the list of leaders. She...
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Artist Interview by H. Allen Williams
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Lynne Arriale
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- Pianist Lynne Arriale believes “singing to oneself is very important to have a vocal quality to the music, but more than a vocal quality, a heart connection.” It is this heart connection she is delivering to her audiences in live performances, and in her trio’s new release Inspiration on TCB records. Critics dubbed her “the new queen”...
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Artist Interview by Dan Clemons
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Brian Auger
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- According to the All Music Guide, Brian Auger was raised in London,
where he took up the keyboards as a child and began to hear jazz by way of the
American Armed Forces Network and an older brother's record collection. By his
teens, he was playing piano in clubs, and by 1962 he had formed the Brian Auger
Trio...
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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Gregg August
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- Ann Braithwaite of Braithwaite and Katz Communications sent me an email asking if I would like to receive a copy of Gregg August's first album as leader entitled Late August. I replied, "Yes send it to me." It arrived and I put it into the CD player and then had to stop everything I was doing and just listen. Late August...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Bob Baldwin
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May 2008 - I’ll admit it from the top, I love jazz pianist Bob Baldwin. Not only is he a great composer but he is what some may brand as a “musician’s musician”. Bob Baldwin ain’t no fool musically speaking. He has cleverly found the art of mixing jazz with urban music and the result is a funky little thing folded neatly...
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Artist Interview by Asha Brodie
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Bob Baldwin
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- Keyboardist/composer/arranger Bob Baldwin has a wealth of experiences to draw from beginning in 1987 when he was a young lion in the jazz-pop world. Fast forward to 2007 and 10 solo albums later and Baldwin has released a DVD entitled Memoirs From The Hudson featuring his live show at the Croton Point Park Music Festival in 2005. The grassroots...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Patricia Barber
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- If we strip musicians' life stories to their bare
essentials, there aren't that many basic narratives in the history of jazz.
Most include elements of tragedy. "Brilliance recognized early, but life cut
short." "Originality sacrificed for popularity." "Toiled in obscurity,
appreciated only when gone."
Patricia Barber's story, in contrast, is
one from which artists of all kinds can...
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Artist Interview by Janet Seiz
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Gato Barbieri
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- Gato Barbieri has recorded over 50 albums, composed the score for one of the most controversial movies of the 20th century, Last Tango in Paris, recorded a smooth jazz classic, Europa and has performed with many of jazz's elite during his five decade career. Even though he has gone through so much in his personal life, saxophonist Gato...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Gilad Barkan
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May 2007 - Musicians who immigrate to the United States come with not only their instruments, but also a firm hold on their distinct heritage. Some of these émigré immix swatches of their native music with jazz and weave a multi-textured body of work. Pianist Gilad Barkan, who’s lived in this country since he was fifteen and presently resides in Boston, MA, was...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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Daniel Barnes
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- Daniel Barnes is one of Toronto’s top drummers, by some estimates he is in the top fifteen. Barnes can be heard on numerous recordings; his discography numbers thirty-eight albums, including the 1996 Juno award winning Africville Suite by pianist Joe Sealy. Barnes works regularly at live and studio gigs, he also works on composing and arranging music. Barnes is...
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Artist Interview by Paul J. Youngman
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Jeff Barone
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May 2008 - Jazz guitarist/composer Jeff Barone hits his stride on his second release Open Up, the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut album Crazy Talk. Barone found his voice early on, not as a turquoise gem in a strand of white pearls, but as a link that unifies the strand and aids and abets in making the piece into a...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Kenny Barron
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- Kenny Barron seems to have built his career
incrementally--through hard work, recording a vast number of albums as a leader
and sideman, by extensive touring, unending dedication to the creative
potential of jazz piano, years of work as a jazz educator, and through decades
of experience with some of jazz' leading legends.
The result is Barron
has deservedly...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Bruce Barth
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- Bruce Barth is a versatile, busy musician. Whether leading his own
trio in performances in New York City's finest clubs, teaming with
accomplished vocalists like Carla Cook or Luciana Sosa, sharing his
music with Spanish or Japanese audiences, or playing in Steve
Wilson's acclaimed quartet, his intentions are clear. He always works
to follow his inner voice and stay true to the music.
Jazz Review:...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Bruce Barth
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- Bruce Barth’s original music is a reflection of the life he has led: cherished memories of childhood, significant encounters with teachers and musical colleagues, and collaboration with musical friends. Bruce’s music paints pictures for the listener’s mind of all of these things. The listener can imagine a hero in the Old West while listening to “The Dude” or see...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Joshua Bayer
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August 2006 - "I am a simple carpenter of tunes" is how Joshua Bayer introduces
himself. Like many gifted musicians, his modest description is a grand
understatement, but one look at his resume and another version comes to life.
Musician, composer, performer, educator, husband, father and son, Joshua Bayer
is a very unique individual with a very unique sound. The master of the...
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Artist Interview by Jim McElroy
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Joshua Bayer
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- Washington DC bassist/composer Joshua Bayer’s music is reflective of his personality: articulate, aware of his roots, but continuously in search of new ideas, savvy, and most of all true to his heart. His latest CD on Jazzheads records, Lines and Grooves, is not just what its title depicts, but a collection of compositions that holds depth and clarity. A...
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Artist Interview by Fred Gerantab
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