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Sheila Cooper
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June 2006 - When you talk to alto saxophone player and evocative Jazz vocalist Sheila Cooper, amazing is a word that populates her conversation as she enthuses about a person, project or piece of music. Cooper who makes her home in New York City comes across as a warm energetic woman. She will completely immerse herself in answering a journalist's question and...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Chick Corea
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March 2006 - His musical genius never in doubt, his opinions never dull and with his creativity seemingly getting ever sharper Jazz composer/pianist Chick Corea took a few minutes out from an ambitious tour schedule to talk to me about his newest creation The Ultimate Adventure CD and a program that he has created for Vienna Austria's celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday....
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Chick Corea
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- Chick Corea easily rates as one of the greatest and most prolific artists in jazz history, whether the measuring stick is applied to the number and quality of his recordings or to the number of styles with which he has experimented and mastered during his long career. In his fifth decade at the pinnacle of jazz, Chick Corea’s recent...
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Artist Interview by Edward Kane
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Jamie Craig
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June 2008 - Music often echoes the soul and significance of a man's expedition. Through the notes, they mirror tears that fall from pains of the past, melodies give birth to one’s chronicles, and the arrangement is the evolution of one’s existence. This sole performance, by means of the vision of Jamie Craig, is just that--a retrospect of his life. Titanic eruptions...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Randy Crawford
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- I have always thought that Randy Crawford was the most undiscovered smooth jazz vocalist in the U.S. Most smooth jazz radio stations do not play her releases and I can't understand why they don't. She has always been the most consistent vocalist in the genre today, yet has a stronger following outside the United States. She...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Malcolm Creese
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February 2004 - Bassist Malcolm Creese may not be a household name, but he’s well known in British circles, covering many genres. Creese has played on sessions for artists including Depeche Mode; toured and recorded with Cleo Laine/John Dankworth and Stan Tracey; been part of large symphony orchestras, including those that performed the scores for the recent films The Lord Of...
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Artist Interview by John Kelman
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Brian Culbertson
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- Keyboardist Brian Culbertson is making this Christmas the best ever. He has always celebrated the holidays with his family in central Illinois in a big way. He says, "I love getting together with the whole family and I really love making fires in the fireplace, just chilling out in the living room and listening to pretty Christmas music, and...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Brian Culbertson
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July 2005 - Multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson is one of the premier performers in smooth jazz. His shows are primarily upbeat in nature and the audience senses the energy that Culbertson brings to his performance. He says, That's kind of what I like to do. The albums are one thing and you go out and see a live performance and it's a whole...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Tim Cunningham
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- Tim Cunningham’s current album Manchester Road, on TAWC Records, makes peace with grieving wounds and nurtures those relationships with family, friends, and God. His smooth jazz compositions and liquid saxophone lines were inspired by his feelings toward his family. Songs like “Sadie,” an ode to his young daughter Sadie, and “Wintress,” a tribute to his niece Wintress, are prime...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Stew Cutler
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- This morning I was listening to a sportscaster on the radio describe a team that had been on a tear recently and he said, "They are not hot, they are very good." The same words can be used to describe guitarist Stew Cutler who is a very good, and we might even say, exceptional guitarist from New York City.
In...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Claire Daly
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- Claire Daly may be a “new” name in jazz, but she’s hardly new to the music scene – she’s been at it for nearly 30 years now. Daly’s accumulated a stunning array of compliments from the press. Like most professional musicians, she’s had to play her share of “pay the rent” gigs, but she’s never lost her...
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Artist Interview by Brian S. Lunde
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Eddie Daniels
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- I had the opportunity to speak with the “Spokesman for the Clarinet,” Eddie Daniels, about making his new CD with Hank Jones, the language of jazz and playing the saxophone and clarinet. The conversation was an education and Eddie Daniels is a remarkable teacher. After you read this, I hope you have the opportunity to hear Say What You...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Jeremy Davenport
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January 2004 - New Orleans is keeping a secret from jazz fans. If you head down to the Ritz-Carlton’s French Quarter Bar during Thursday through Saturday nights, you’ll get a chance to hear the smooth sounds of trumpeter/vocalist Jeremy Davenport. Named by People Magazine as one of the hottest young bachelor’s, Davenport combines old-school charm with a wealth of...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Debbie Davies
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March 2008 - One wonders if Jimi Hendrix had the blues students of today in mind when he said, “Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” However, when the self-invented wild child of blues, Debbie Davies, hits the stage, it all makes sense!
From my first “plug-n-play” of Davies in my studio at a small stick in New England, Davies' manipulation...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Miles Davis
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February 2007 - Legendary Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis' pensive look on his album and CD jackets were always interpreted by the media as dark, mysterious and any other adjectives like the aforementioned that you can think about.
But talking to his nephew Vincent Wilburn, Jr. recently, he paints a different picture. "Uncle Miles was very humorous and was not the "prince of...
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Artist Interview by Asha Brodie
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Steve Davis
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- Steve Davis is one of a handful of young musicians who intimately
understands the trajectory traced by the modern jazz trombone.
By turns
hard-edged, harmonically daring, and hauntingly tender, the 'conceptions' and
stylings of this thirty-four year old Binghamton, New York native hark back
nostalgically to the in-the-pocket be-bop excursions of the 1950s.
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conversation about jazz and his chosen...
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Artist Interview by John Stevenson
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De'Nate
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- Luck, some people have it and others will do anything to acquire it. People
in the eastern hemisphere of this planet believe that you are either born with
it or not, whereas western hemisphere cultures believe that you can make it. The
new NuGroove Records discovery, De’Nate, formed by multi-instrumentalist Nate
Harasim and sultry vocalist Deborah Connors, are a...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Debbie Deane
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a new face just seems to come out of the blue. A talent that wasn't there one
moment and just then was the next. For Debbie Deane...it was the usual 10+ year
'overnight' success that just appeared to be instantaneous. Judging from those
she chose to accompany her on her maiden voyage, she did it right though.
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Bob DeAngelis & His Champagne Symphony
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- To Dream – Carnegie Hall 1938
Coronation of a king, a tribute to Benny Goodman, starring Bob DeAngelis, John MacLeod, and the Champagne Symphony Orchestra featuring some of Canada’s top musicians. “I think the band I had at Carnegie Hall . . . was the best . . . I ever had.” A Benny Goodman statement, that he made...
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Artist Interview by Paul J. Youngman
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Joey DeFrancesco
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- Known as the B-3 Bomber for his incredible skill on the Hammond B-3 organ, playing the B-3 comes naturally for Joey DeFrancesco who as a child, played along with his father, Philly organ legend Papa John DeFrancesco. By age 16, DeFrancesco was the first recipient of the Philadelphia Jazz Society’s McCoy Tyner Scholarship and a finalist in the...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Lea DeLaria
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September 2008 - Lea DeLaria is one of the hippest jazz singers around.
Her innate skills and deep love of standards shine through on The Live Smoke Sessions. Unlike her first two CDs, which offered innovative twists of Broadway tunes and rock songs, the latest effort has DeLaria taking on classic jazz numbers. In creating an album that recalls the great live...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Lea DeLaria
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April 2005 - Lea DeLaria is an unstoppable force. In the early 1980s, way before Ellen DeGeneres said to the world, “Yep, I’m Gay,” DeLaria was making her mark as an in-your-face stand-up comic who immediately let you know she was gay …and damn proud of it too. Her comedy albums, “Bulldyke In a China Shop” and “Box Lunch” became cult favorites....
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Artist Interview by Lawrence Williams
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Lourdes Delgado
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March 2005 - David Bailey once articulated, "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography, everything is so ordinary, it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
Jazz today has many facets with which to experience the genre,...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Rick DellaRatta
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- DellaRatta is a crafter, not solely of music in the
general sense, but of a specific ambiance. A jazz artist with a distinctive
style augmented by equally distinctive accompanying musicians. DellaRatta
doubles as the vocalist and pianist in a swinging quartet. He is equally in
depth in both roles.
JazzReview.com: Tell me about the earliest experience with
music...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Dena DeRose
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- Pianist, singer, composer, and arranger, Dena DeRose is a natural when it comes to bringing out jazz music’s warm resonance and emotive punctuations, garnishing classic and modern standards that she plays. She never seems to run out of ideas to put into words and music, and reflects, “Inspiration for writing music comes in many, many forms for me. Whether...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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