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Jessica Molaskey
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Jessica Molaskey has performed with the " First Family of Cool" — John, Bucky and Martin Pizzarelli, at venues around the world from Feinstein’s at the Regency in New York City to the Montreal Jazz Festival. Jessica has also been featured at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series, Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, Rainbow & Stars and with orchestras, and in...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Kurt Rosenwinkel
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Who is Kurt Rosenwinkel? If you don’t know by now your ears are probably collecting dust in an old record collection. His Verve debut The Enemies of Energy in 2000, followed by The Next Step in 2002 put the 32-year old guitarist/composer on the map as one of the most unique voices in contemporary jazz; But don’t sit down...
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Artist Interview by Fred Gerantab
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Lloyd Gregory
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"Music is comprised of traditions, even when mixed with innovations," Gregory says, “so of course, every musician is building upon sounds that came before. I admire and respect those jazz guitarists and I learned a lot from them. But my influences also include early soul innovators like Curtis Mayfield, many of the guitarists in the various Motown artists’...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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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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Monty Alexander
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It was in New York City in the early sixties. I was hanging out
with my friend Jackie Stevens. He was playing alto with Woody Herman's band, appearing at the Metropole in Times Square. During a break, a group of us walked a few blocks to Jilly’s; a club owned by Frank Sinatra's best friend, to catch a pianist the...
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Artist Interview by Bill Tannebring
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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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Kirk Whalum
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Saxophonist Kirk Whalum has performed with such notables as Whitney Houston, Babyface, Luther Vandross, Nancy Wilson, George Benson, Bebe and Cece Winans, Barbara Streisand, Vince Gill, Michael McDonald and Quincy Jones. This year, Whalum toured the country as part of the smooth jazz super group BWB with trumpeter Rick Braun and Grammy winning guitarist Norman Brown. Whalum’s newest Warner...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Patti Wicks
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Although Patti Wicks has performed in New York over the years with various jazz notables, it wasn’t until landing in Florida that things really began to happen. With the release of her first CD in 1998, suddenly everybody was buzzing about Wicks’ superb piano textures and smoky emotional vocals. This gained her recognition in various jazz circles...
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Artist Interview by Unknown User
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Dan Kuromoto
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A group named after the city that was bombed by a nuclear warhead in World War II is helping to bridge the world by music. Hiroshima has been performing since 1974 to help bring alive a philosophy that was first mentioned by Duke Ellington when he recorded The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse back in 1971. At that time, Ellington felt that...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Kenny Burrell
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Kenny Burrell has been an inescapable force in the world of jazz and
popular music for the last half-century, having released close to a
hundred albums under his own name and played on countless sessions with
everyone from Ray Brown to James Brown.
Mr. Burrell has also distinguished himself in the realm of academia. For the past
twenty-five years he has...
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Artist Interview by Edward Kane
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Russell Ferrante
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When you think about long lived, constantly adapting and evolving jazz bands, how often does The Yellowjackets come to mind? I must confess that I had largely forgotten The Yellowjackets when the Jazz Fusion movement ebbed. Well, that was my mistake because Russell Ferrante (piano and electronic keyboards), Jimmy Haslip (electric bass), Bob Mintzer (tenor...
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Artist Interview by Jeff Winbush
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Wayne Shorter
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Though it’s all story-telling to the six-time Grammy winner who turns seventy on August 25, among the many other dimensions experienced in the music of Wayne Shorter are essentially its mystery, expansion of spirit, angular beauty, abstract truth, ponderous thoughtfulness and an uncannily synchronistic nature.
Since joining the modern music world's elite core of improvisers and composers in 1959...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Dave Ellis
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I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Dave Ellis to discuss his new album State of Mind and his philosophy on creating jazz music. The product of two academic sociologists, it is no surprise that Ellis is keenly aware of the diverse and significant forces that shape his music. Parents, teachers, musicians, and now the...
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Artist Interview by Bill White
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Janis Siegel
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One of the best known, and best loved voices in American popular music, through her thirty year tenure in the Manhattan Transfer, Janis Siegel's roots stretch back to the girl group era, and her resume includes a solo recording career that produced seven albums since 1982.
Her latest, Friday Night Special, provides ten songs with a classic organ-tenor group, anchored...
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Artist Interview by Shaun Dale
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John Pizzarelli
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John Pizzarelli is not only one of the finest musicians on the contemporary jazz scene,
following in his father Bucky's footsteps on the seven string guitar, he's one of the finest jazz entertainers. In some ways it's his skill as an entertainer, over and above his
skill as a vocalist and guitarist, that makes his contribution to jazz...
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Artist Interview by Shaun Dale
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Acoustic Alchemy
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After the duo of Acoustic Alchemy released AArt, a studio album that received high accolades, including a third Grammy nomination, guitarists Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale decided to get back into the studio and get back to basics. Their newest release, Radio Contact helps to get back the synergy that Carmichael and Gilderdale are known for on stage....
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Bobby Previte
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Counterclockwise, Bobby Previte and his working unit Bump's latest release on Palmetto Jazz, is said to be a "follow-up" to his 2001 Just Add Water. But in addition to a key personnel change, the new disc has a very different feel. Recorded more or less live at an unlikely studio on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, its energy...
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Artist Interview by Richard C. Anderson
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McCoy Tyner
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Sitting down for an interview with a musical icon can be a daunting task. But when that icon is McCoy Tyner, all nervousness melts once he answers the phone and introduces himself. Mr. Tyner’s graciousness and accommodation is even more impressive considering that when this writer phoned him, he had just completed inquiring about some lost luggage...
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Artist Interview by Charles Sudo
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Steve Cole
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Throughout his career, saxophonist Steve Cole broke the mold with each new endeavor. First trained to play classical music at Northwestern University, Cole decided to perform his true love, jazz and R&B music.
He performed with many bands in the Chicago area and wrote music for pianist Bob Mamet and keyboardist Brian Culbertson. From 1995 through 1997, he...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Roy Hargrove
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Trumpeter Roy Hargrove is quick to talk at length about his new Verve CD, Hard Groove, and RH Factor and the posse of funk, R&B and soul artists who join him on the venture. Perhaps he feels an explanation is in order, as Hard Groove is such a departure from his earlier straight-ahead jazz work (such as...
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Artist Interview by Richard C. Anderson
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Rachel Z
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On her new album, Moon at the Window (Tone Center), pianist Rachel Z (aka Nicolazzo) plays homage to the music of Joni Mitchell, including such songs as "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Free Man In Paris." Rounding out the trio is drummer Bobbie Rae and bassist Patricia Des Lauriers (replaced on tour by Nikki Parrott).
Rachel raps on how exposure to...
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Artist Interview by Jeff Winbush
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Doc Powell
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Gifted guitarist, producer and arranger, Doc Powell, pays tribute to an era in the melting pot of New York where music was hot, and both veteran and upcoming musicians were on the same stage.
I had an opportunity to talk to Doc Powell as he pays homage to heroes from an earlier generation.
JazzReview: Congratulations as the bandleader on the sell-out...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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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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Sakoto Fujii
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JazzReview: What Japanese musicians influenced your style of playing early on in your career?
Satoko Fujii: My idol early on was Fumio Itabashi, a Japanese jazz pianist who was in Ray Anderson's band and Elvin Jones's band. I went to jazz clubs in Tokyo to listen to his playing very often. Finally I asked him for lessons....
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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Freddy Cole
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Freddy Cole has been called the Prince of Song. He has an exhilarating voice with a richness that truly opens the mystery of love.
In The Name of Love, Cole’s exciting new album of contemporary music on the Telarc label, is filled with just such mystery. Cole gets romantic with the unique interpretations of eleven celebrated love songs,...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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