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Harvie S
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July 2006 - Harvie S is one of the most adventurous musicians working on the scene today. On his latest CD, “Funky Cha,” the bassist continues to push into new territory, exploring the meeting of jazz and Afro-Cuban music.
The album features reworkings of a few familiar tunes by Thelonious Monk and Cole Porter, but it’s mostly made of up six original tunes...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Harvie S
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February 2004 - With the increasing popularity of the Latin Jazz movement over the last several years, it stands to reason that listeners will be overwhelmed with choices; with the spectrum ranging from the ‘dabblers’ (those both new and established who are riding the wagon) and the authentics, those who have forged the deepest commitment to (and in turn, earned the greatest...
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Artist Interview by Fred Gerantab
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Harvie S.
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- Bassist, Harvie S, formerly known as “Harvie Swartz,” doesn’t need to begin convincing anyone of his multi-talented musicianship. As a leader, composer, and sideman for a stellar list of legendary Jazz artists over the years, Harvie is presently creating something new and exciting.
“New Beginning” the second album of Harvie’s latest project, “Eye Contact,” displays the versatility and...
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Artist Interview by Unknown User
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Les Sabler
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- The old saying, “Three times –a charm,” may be true for some things. But, for Les Sabler, his fourth album is a masterpiece. Braving deep waters with classic hits like Aretha Franklin’s “Daydreaming” and Peabo Bryson’s “Can You Stop The Rain,’ then adding a marvelous collection of originals, offering plenty of textures and moods, Sabler definitely will be on...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Sakesho
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May 2005 - A group that has been around for just around two years is making a mark on the music scene to bring the best of the French Caribbean to listeners around the world. Sakesho, pronounced sah KAY show, is presenting to audiences the style of beguine music, which is intensely syncopated and polyrhythmic. This style of music has fascinated steelpan...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Joe Sample
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February 2007 - Joe Sample has had a very busy week--recording with Queen Latifah, a visit to the Sierra Nevada mountains, publicity work for his new duet album with Randy Crawford, and oh yeah, awaiting the birth of his first grandchild. That was just this week. Makes you tired just reading about it, let alone trying to live it, but that does not...
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Artist Interview by Jim McElroy
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Dave Samuels
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March 2005 - Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project recently released two CD set, “Here and Now – Live in Concert.” This snapshot of the group features a retrospective look at many of the favorite songs of Caribbean Jazz Project fans. Although most of the tunes are re-recordings, the arrangements are fresh and full of the fiery intensity that...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Bobby Sanabria
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- Bobby Sanabria is a bandleader, a composer, an incredible drummer and most of all an individual who believes in giving back to the community and the jazz art form that he truly feels grateful to be a part of. He was inspired as a young man growing up in the Bronx of New York City when he watched the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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David Sanborn
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- Legendary sax man David Sanborn has had a steady influence in music for a long time. He has worked with some of the biggest names in rock and pop music, including Eric Clapton, the Eagles, the Rolling Stones, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder. He has also worked with jazz greats Miles Davis and the Brecker...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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David Sanborn
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March 2005 - Raised in St. Louis, Dave Sanborn originally honed his cutting, soulful, and sensual alto work in the blues bands of Paul Butterfield and Albert Collins. Eventually he worked a who’s who including: Miles, Gil Evans, Jaco, Brecker Brothers, Eagles, Bowie, Clapton, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Springsteen, Carly Simon, Lenny Kravitz, Steely Dan, Stones, James Brown, Rickie Lee Jones, Todd...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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David Sanborn
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- Saxophonist David Sanborn has had a career that seems to be as legendary as he is personally. Born in Tampa, Florida, Sanborn was raised in St. Louis where "it always had a strong kind of soul jazz kind of blues-based music. I think of Ray Charles and some of the organ groups that were influential, people like Jimmy Smith...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Poncho Sanchez
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November 2003 - Poncho Sanchez’s latest Concord Picante release Out of Sight is
one of the year's most fun CDs to listen to. Poncho is almost
certainly the hardest working man in Latin Jazz, so it is only
appropriate that the new album finds him paying tribute to James Brown,
The Hardest Working Man in Show Business--and to classic R&B more
generally. Helping him on...
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Artist Interview by Edward Kane
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Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra
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March 2006 - Maria Schneider is not yet a household name. Many musicians have become fixtures of modern or other bygone eras: The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Beethoven - these are household names and there are many others. But under the umbrella of jazz, there are not so many: John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and maybe a few others.
Percentage-wise, jazz...
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Artist Interview by John Dworkin
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Craig Schoedler
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- Every jazz enthusiast likes reading interviews of well-known jazz
musicians, but JazzReview loves turning our readers onto musicians and CDs
deserving recognition. Therefore, let me introduce Craig Schoedler, electric
bassist, who recently recorded a fine contemporary jazz CD entitled "By the
Water," featuring Mike Stern on guitar, Vince Collela-guitar/acoustic guitar,
Ralph Bowen-tenor sax/flute, Steve Jordan-drums, and Tom Petroski-keyboards.
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Tom Schuman
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- As the pianist/keyboardist for Spyro Gyra for 27 years, Tom Schuman is following his personal inspiration in producing his latest solo effort, “Into Your Heart,” a revealing insight into the man and artist who with faith, talent, and the support of a loving family, has come to the realization that beautiful music is the expression of a happy soul.
Schuman’s...
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Artist Interview by Unknown User
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Kate Schutt
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September 2008 - Singer-songwriter Kate Schutt has invited outsiders into her secret world of songwriting.
Telephone Game, which gets its name from an age-old children’s game, is a unique project that began with Schutt inviting listeners to submit song ideas. She then took those ideas and made them her own, crafting and nurturing them into songs. Along the way, Schutt shared the creative...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Diane Schuur
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February 2008 - Jazz vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur delivers one of her most personal albums to date with the release of Some Other Time.
The CD is a loving tribute to the music that filled her home when she was a young girl. Made to coincide with the 40th anniversary of her mother’s death, the album is a strong return to...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Diane Schuur
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- Diane Schuur stands as one of jazz music’s top vocalists, her competition being no less than divas Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. Since being discovered by Stan Getz at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1979, Schuur has built an impressive and inspiring career, including winning two Grammy Awards. Blinded at birth in a hospital accident,...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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John Scofield
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- Scofield's latest recorded outing, "Uberjam,” literally means "overall jam," but it translates to “groove above all,” on this true band effort. You'll likely see this title described as anything from groove, techno, ambient, world, trance, to acid and back again, but like MMW, it's unique in that, it's danceable "but holds up as jazz," as Sco puts it....
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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John Scofield
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- John Scofield has been the "ever-changing weather front" of the
jazz genre; moving like a forceful wind (and seamlessly) in and out of the
intricate facets of jazz and funk, Scofield continues to redefine modern jazz
and funk every step of the way while never losing the integrity of the moment.
Dubbed everything from the "father of jazz-funk"...
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Artist Interview by Fred 'Starr' Gerantab
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Marilyn Scott
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September 2008 - There is a headlining, sway appeal when the name Marilyn Scott is brought into
conversation. Marilyn is the temperate tone of the modern day cabaret. Her
eloquence comes in multi-faceted forms on stage, and off. It is one reason this
iconic beauty defines the jazz vocalization of the past 30 years. Marilyn Scott
is, in fact, a double bill...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Christian Scott
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May 2006 - I spoke with trumpeter Christian Scott from his place in New York City on May 2006. He was preparing for gigs in Boston and St. Louis. He just got the news that he’d been booked at this year’s JVC Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, August 11-13. His new release on Concord Records is entitled Rewind That.
JazzReview: What...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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Dave Scott
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- I first ran into trumpeter Dave Scott at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Every Friday night, LACMA provides a year round showcase of some of the finest jazz on the West Coast, and it's free. I was familiar with Scott because he was an instructor for the jazz department at my alma mater, the University of...
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Artist Interview by Fred Jung
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Janis Seigel
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- All music derives from song, the voice, being the first instrument of all, and jazz is no exception. Jazz Musicians seek their own sound, a distinctive quality, a recognizable character, a voice, with much the same meaning as that given to it by poets.
So, its not surprising that Janis Siegel one of the most distinctly compelling jazz singers on...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Walter and Mary Ann Sereth
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- This is a true story of two people who came together due to the love of Dixieland music. Walter Sereth is a person who enjoys Dixieland music. He says, I lived next door to Alan Crowne and his brothers when I was 12 and some years later, got into play Dixieland. I never, except in the Army, played professionally....
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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