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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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Sathima Bea Benjamin
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Sathima Bea Benjamin's amazing life reads like the plot of a movie. She takes
time out of her busy schedule to recollect her life's journey, from her
childhood in pre-apartheid South Africa, singing during movie house
intermissions to self-imposed exile to Europe where she and pianist/composer
husband, Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), are discovered by Duke Ellington.
Despite witnessing and...
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Artist Interview by Maxwell Chandler
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Walter Beasley
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Sax man and vocalist Walter Beasley has two great loves that he has a passion for. One of those is his role as an educator. Teaching at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he says, "I like the give and take and I like being able to share what I learned over the last 30 years in the...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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David Becker
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For over 20 years, guitarist/composer David Becker has continued to define himself as one of the best and most unique voices in contemporary jazz guitar. Combining diverse influences and a passion for the new and different, Becker's latest CD "Where's Henning?" reflects his gifts as a player and composer, and his ability to play for the present while always...
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Artist Interview by Fred Gerantab
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David Becker
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Fusion guitarist, David Becker, stays one step ahead
with his new, Tribune, "Germerica" on Silverline Records, a DVD six-channel
surround sound audio, slated for release August 2001. This exciting new
technology produced and marketed by the 5.1 Entertainment Group and DVD
International offers the ultimate sound and visual experience, so David's new
Tribune collection will surely enrich the language...
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Marcus Belgrave In The Tradition
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For those who may not be aware, Marcus Belgrave is an award winning trumpeter who has played with a who's who of iconic jazz musicians. This summer he and his associates will be performing at the Huntsville Jazz Festival. Joined here for this interview by his long time friend and associate Charlie Gabriel who was born in New Orleans...
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Artist Interview by Paul J. Youngman
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Lisa Bell
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Inspiration, a incident on which ideas are chiseled. Diversity enters when maturity mixes with confidence, however, innovation only evolves when all the other variables of the talented source are allowed to nurture into a spirit. Creativity is not bought, sold, or birthed with the vocalizing of a note. It just comes from within, requiring no explanation for its existence....
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Walter Bell
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Recently when typing away on my computer, I slipped in flutist Walter Bell and the LJU’s (Latin Jazz Unit) “In Three Places at Once,” CD and heard something wonderful. Yes, “Something Wonderful,” the Rodgers and Hammerstein composition whimsically and beautifully sung by Ruth Naomi Floyd. More to the point, the something wonderful I heard was a mesmerizing and...
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Artist Interview by Monica India Johnson
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David Benoit
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David Benoit is a very busy guy these days. He recently released his first all-orchestral CD, produced a tribute to the first Charlie Brown TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas and is getting ready for a Christmas tour with saxophonist Dave Koz. With everything the composer/conductor/instrumentalist has done, he is most proud of his classical-based CD called Orchestral Stories....
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Cheryl Bentyne
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The Book of Love opens with Cheryl Bentyne’s creamy smooth vocals cooing:
“You don’t know the one that dreams of you at night,
and longs to kiss your lips, longs to hold you tight.
To you I’m just a friend.
That’s all I’ve ever been,
But you don’t know me.”
During the month of November, Bentyne and her label Telarc Records are releasing the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Cheryl Bentyne
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Cheryl Bentyne has been the soprano voice of the world-renown vocal group The Manhattan Transfer since 1979. She has won Grammys (and countless other awards), toured the world and performed with such musical legends as Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1992, she released her first solo album, the ethereal “Something Cool,” and MT fans...
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Artist Interview by Lawrence Williams
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Cheryl Bentyne
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Cheryl Bentyne is a high-energy musician. Anyone who has ever watched her perform as a member of the legendary vocal group, The Manhattan Transfer, can feel the electric current that emanates from her very presence on a stage. Music and performing is what Cheryl is about, whether it is as a soloist or part of an ensemble. From her...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Cheryl Bentyne
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Though the calendar says we’re in the fall, and winter is right around the corner, for those longing for a last blast of heat, The Manhattan Transfer has come to your rescue with the release of their new live CD, Couldn’t Be Hotter (Telarc). Cheryl Bentyne joined Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel and Alan Paul in 1979 and has...
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Artist Interview by Jeff Winbush
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Bob Berg
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The probability that you've heard Bob Berg's distinctive, soulful, intelligent soloing is very high if you've heard the more contemporary work of Miles, Mike Stern, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Gary Burton, Randy Brecker, Jaco, and now a new version of the super group, Steps Ahead, with Mike Maineri, Marc Johnson, Peter Erskine, Elaine Elias. A new...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Ignacio Berroa
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On a warm summer evening in Havana, Cuba, a young man stands outside a concert hall talking with some friends. He is ecstatic and he is telling this friends that his life can end now and he will go peacefully because he has seen the great Dizzy Gillespie perform. Performances such as this are a rare thing in Havana and this...
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Artist Interview by Jim McElroy
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Keter Betts
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Keter Betts is not only a great bass player; he is a pretty fine philosopher. Of course, when you have six decades of influential jazz performances under your belt, you learn a thing or two along the way. “There are six billion people in the world and ironically there are no two fingerprints alike,” said Keter. “You are one...
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Tony Bianco
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Since Tony Bianco’s father put a set of drumsticks in his hands, he has adored them with the enamor a boy has for his Tonka toys, or a girl for her Barbie dolls. Banging on the drums was a way for tike-sized Tony to form a bond with his Dad and feel just as tall and strong. “My father,...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Matt Bianco
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Two decades have passed and three lives have traveled very different paths, sometimes touching upon the past, whether by song or a brief recall of a faint memory. However, fans do not forget. They just anticipate the resurrection of a new beginning in hopes of past musical magic becoming restored. Hope is not a strategy, just a forgone wish...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Eric Bibb
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A camera is following blues artist Eric Bibb as he moves among the shops on Paris, France’s Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau and that is how the CD Diamond Days begins. Acting upon a last minute suggestion from a cinematographer friend, Bibb is filmed with a camcorder while he visits what he refers to as one of his "favorite haunts,"...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Sonny Bird-Hutcherson
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The great blind tenor man Sonny Bird-Hutcherson sits languidly in his hotel
room armchair smoking a cigarette. His weather beaten face and ruffled grey
hair are marks of experience in a business where only the strong seem to
survive. He has...
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Artist Interview by Pablo Pasconelli (Guest Writer)
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo has released a joyous and habit-forming album of South African scapula singing called the LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, which is part of the “Heads Up Africa Series” on the Heads Up International Label. Heads Up International is a division of Telarc International Corp.
When LONG WALK TO FREEDOM arrived I first read through the beautiful sixteen-page booklet...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Ron Blake
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By way of sandy beaches, tropical breezes and a place where one takes time to listen, learn, love and appreciate the sound of music. Ron Blake is a jazz musician who plays in many different genres. He is a tenor of choice amongst many types of music. His new disc “Sonic Tonic” proves that jazz can, but does not...
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Artist Interview by LeRoy Downs
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Michael Blake
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On the eve of a West Coast tour with Slow Poke,
the coming release of their album, "Redemption" (Intuition) and his forthcoming
second solo release, "Drift", New York saxophonist Michael Blake talks about
the roots of his life in music and the way the branches have sprouted along the
way. Amongst his many activities, the Canadian-born Blake is leader...
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Artist Interview by Josephine Ochej
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Terence Blanchard
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Jazz musicians are some of the coolest cats on the planet. Creative, down to earth, and soulful are just a few short descriptions for these individuals who take life and transform it into beautiful, intense and crazy expressions. Their language is based on reality and keeping it real is what straight ahead music is all about. Straight ahead, forward...
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Artist Interview by LeRoy Downs
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Karen Blixt
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Has it been awhile since you’ve heard anything new, anything fresh, in vocal
jazz today? I think I can recommend the cure for what ails you,
friend. Take a listen to the jazz vocal stylings of Karen Blixt, who has
just released her debut album titled, Spin This on her very own HiFi
Records label (co-founded with friend and...
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Artist Interview by Mary Jo Conniff
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