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Ana-Isabel Ordonez
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The film documentary A Touch of Noir put together by Dr. Ana-Isabel Ordonez and François Olivieri pays homage to film noir, which is based on the dramatic look portrayed in German Expressionism and cinematography. Ordonez and Olivieri add a new dimensional to its presentation with live improvised music played by avant-garde musicians during the showing of these films in...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Ana-Isabel Ordonez
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Film noir is a unique class of cinematography developed during World War II, whereby filmmakers made human emotions palpable on screen by manipulating the lighting and camera angles of the actors and actresses on film. The genre of film noir is based on German Expressionism and became popular in Hollywood during the 1940's and 1950's. Dr. Ana-Isabel Ordonez, co-founder...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Mattern Otten and Maria Harp
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What elements of your classical training do you find helps you out, when you're playing the guitar?
Matt: As you said I started out with classical training and in fact that was the only kind of guitar training I could get where I was living, when I was starting out playing guitar, when I was about 10 or 11 years...
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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Ned Otter
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Ned Otter is a powerful, relatively young tenor saxophonist that heads his own record label, Two and Four Recording Company. The label has just released “So Little Time,” which marks Ned’s album as a bandleader after years of playing behind such legends as George Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie, Red Rodney and Clark Terry. And it is quite an impressive band...
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Artist Interview by Edward Kane
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Kem Owens
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Adekemi Owens, known professionally and affectionately to music fans as “Kem,” has come a long way from Nashville, Tennessee to his current hometown of Detroit, Michigan. So, one figures that is why this musical genius has written and performed songs that could be considered as Jazz, R&B, Soul or Adult Contemporary. This Detroit native with Nigerian roots has overcome...
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Artist Interview by Alice Meikle
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Julian Owens
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The music called jazz has undergone many changes in its relatively brief, but surprisingly rich history. Yet all of it, from old New Orleans to new Free Jazz, belongs to one musical family.
Some people forge special links with the past, recasting aspects of it in new and personal molds. Others reach forward for new modes of expression, new combinations...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Ozomatli
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The social and political climate has changed considerably in the time between Ozomatli’s 2001 long-player Embrace the Chaos and this year’s Street Signs, but to listen to guitarist/vocalist Raul “El Bully” Pacheco explain the band’s approach to music remains the same.
“This group’s existence is about freedom”, Pacheco explained in a recent phone interview. “Musically and lyrically we have...
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Artist Interview by Charles Sudo
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LM Pagano
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There’s an intimacy about vocalist LM Pagano that makes people, whether they’re late-night radio listeners or big-time record producers, sit up and take notice.
Los Angeles disc jockey Bo Leibowitz can tell you. When he played a song from the singer’s CD on his show, he got four calls from listeners before the number ended. Soon, the recording made...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Eddie Palmieri
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It isn’t easy being a standard bearer. That adage is especially true when your peers seem to pass on suddenly. Such is the case with the legendary bandleader Eddie Palmieri. In the past few years the world of Latin Jazz and salsa have lost Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, and most recently Cuban diva Celia Cruz. ...
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Artist Interview by Charles Sudo
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Gretchen Parlato
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Donning a blue wig and performing a whacky improvisation of a very
senior citizen awaiting her boyfriend’s arrival, the absolutely comedic woman on
the youtube video is obviously blessed with talent. Miss MacKenzie’s performance
was repeated, in part, last Valentine’s Day as she delighted the patrons of New
York City’s Cornelius Street Café. This time, she had an accomplice in...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Gretchen Parlato
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I was browsing at the web site for Steamers Café, looking for a good show for Friday night. I saw that Gretchen Parlato, the winner of the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition, would be singing there, so I quickly ordered up two seats. Up to that point in time, I had never heard of Gretchen Parlato, but knowing that the...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Kat Parra
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Sephardic jazz is the voice of the Spanish Jews, whom singer-songwriter Kat Parra has a special bond with as a descendent of this spirited community. This is the music that moves her and inspires her to reach into her soul and find her voice, which resounds stunningly on her latest release Azucar de Amor. The melodies have an ethnic...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Gene Paul
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As one of the behind-the-scenes professionals in the recording industry, Gene Paul has spent almost 40 years working with some of the best-known names in music—names as divergent as The Rolling Stones and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. In the past decade, Paul has spent countless hours restoring the recordings of forgotten live performances, thereby expanding the discography of some jazz...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Charlie Peacock
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"The thing I like about jazz is risk. I love how it can go so much in your favor when you find a place in music that hasn't occurred before. It doesn't matter if you are eighty years old or twenty for a moment in time you can experience that wonderful feeling again, (the reason) why you first learned...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Roberto Perera
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One thing that makes smooth jazz different from all other kinds of music is its diversity. Diversity in fans, performers and instruments makes smooth jazz stand out as a kind of music that embraces every aspect of life. Roberto Perera has been recording with the Paraguayan harp since the early 90's and has been a master at...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Danilo Perez
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JAZZREVIEW: What’s happening, man?
DANILO PEREZ: Beautiful, man! I’m here with my daughter. You know, we just had another baby on Saturday…another girl, Carlina Esmiralda Perez. I’m really happy and I’m excited about living life and everything.
JAZZREVIEW: Congratulations on another new Danilo creation, my friend. Is that Carlina?
DANILO PEREZ: That’s Daniella--15 months, man.
JAZZREVIEW: You present this...
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Artist Interview by LeRoy Downs
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Jason Peri
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PLEASE PASS THE JAZZ
and enjoy the jazz sounds of Jason Peri. A composer with talent and innovation,
Jason Peri creates some wonderfully jazz inventive music. PLEASE PASS THE JAZZ
showcases Peri at his finest, and reveals the creativity of the man. An
interesting person, he had the following to say in a recent interview from
California.
JazzReview.com: Jason, you...
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Artist Interview by Lee Prosser
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Lori Perry
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Lori
Perry grew up in Bakersfield, California, listening to Spanish, Gospel and
Country music. Yet today, Lori Perry is best known as the soulful passionate
lady of Jazz and R&B who has recorded with the likes of Brian Culbertson,
Cher, Elton John and George Michael. Along with her three sisters Carol, Darlene
and Sharon, Lori Perry comprised Perri one of...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Michel Petrucciani
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"My philosophy," said Michel
Petrucciani, "is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me
from doing what I want to do." Nothing unusual about that, one might think. But
since Petrucciani was an adult standing only three feet high and weighing 65
pounds, one might expect his ambitions to have been, so to speak,...
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Artist Interview by Steve Voce
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Mike Phillips
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Saxophone players are not unusual to the world of music but when you find one whose influences have stemmed from his love of Hip Hop plus traditional jazz music, you got something pretty special on your hands. To be exact, you have an ''Uncommon Denominator'' that is indivisible by anything that doesn't equate to the love of music.
I...
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Artist Interview by Sheila Chadwick
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Pieces Of A Dream
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Cool is as cool sounds…and that is still true over three decades of the contemporary phenomena known as Pieces of A Dream, a jack hammer of hits with sweet sounds filtering through every jazz venue here and abroad. With that said, it was my pleasure to sit and discover the heart of this machine--this personality and creative elixir, Pillow...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Pieces Of A Dream
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With a career that spans nearly 30 years, Pieces of a Dream has and still remains one of the most creative and dynamic groups of its time. The group has covered some of the classics to the quiet and up-tempo grooves.
Their latest effort, No Assembly Required, merges the seasoned skills of charter and foundling members James Lloyd and Curtis...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Enrico Pieranunzi
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Classical jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi has played on 61 albums. His recording history includes solo albums, as well as collaborations with other recording artists like André Ceccarelli, Paul Motian, and Chet Baker. His reaction to this historic achievement is sheer astonishment. “It’s simply wonderful,” he elates, “sort of a dream for me. When I was a child or in my...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Leslie Pintchik
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Pianist/composer Leslie Pintchik’s new CD, Quartets, follows
the success of her delectable 2004 debut, So Glad To Be Here.
Quartets actually features two different quartets, the core of
each being Pintchik’s working trio – Pintchik on Piano, Scott Hardy on Bass, and
Mark Hodge on drums. Percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and saxophonist Steve Wilson
round out the two quartets. We...
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Artist Interview by Kevin Cox
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Leslie Pintchik
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Sensually laced keyboards. Emotionally driven arrangements. Intellectually intense compositions, but still not tender justice to Brooklyn native pianist Leslie Pintchik.
In the fall of 2004, Ambient Records ignited the fire of jazz enthusiasts with Ms. Pintchik’s So Glad To Be Here, an imaginative endeavor that allows the listener to feel the gentleness and compassion of the artist’s unique talent....
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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