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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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Paul Jackson, Jr.
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Some guys are so consistently good that you forget how bad they are. Guitarist Paul Jackson Jr. is one of those guys.
As a studio musician, Jackson has been called upon by some of the biggest names in music including Madonna, Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion and Steely Dan. Chances are if there’s any variety at all in...
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Artist Interview by Jeff Winbush
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Cookie Coleman
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At what point in your life did you know that you wanted to become a musician?
I was in 7th grade and I asked the person in charge of the community Christmas pageant at the Town Hall if I could sing a solo. I wasn’t content to sing in the chorus. He asked me to sing something right...
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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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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Barbara Caroll
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Each year at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Mary Lou Williams Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to one of the most extraordinary female jazz performers in the world. This year the prestigious honor will be awarded to the elegant jazz pianist, composer and vocalist Barbara Carroll.
I recently had the opportunity to speak to Ms. Carroll...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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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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Gerald Veasley
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Money can’t buy the riches bass guitarist Gerald Veasley has obtained in his life. He’s traveled the world, heard the wisdom of the elder statesman of jazz, and continues to live his dreams. Now that’s rich! Rich is also the word Veasley uses to describe his latest recording on the Heads Up Label, Velvet.
Velvet is the fabric of royalty...
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Artist Interview by Monica India Johnson
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Hiromi Uehara
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I’ve always believed that appreciating jazz is like appreciating wine. You have to acquire a taste for it and it only develops over time. And good jazz like good wine is wasted on the young. A generation that is led to believe that Jennifer Lopez can sing, Adam Sandler can act and Fear Factor is quality...
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Artist Interview by Jeff Winbush
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Maria Muldaur
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The first ten years of Maria Muldaur's forty-year exploration of American
popular music forms saw her rise from the girl fiddler in a Washington
Square bluegrass band to a chart topping pop chanteuse with "Midnight At The
Oasis." In the thirty years since, her chart profile has been somewhat
lower, but her music has never been better, as evidenced by a series...
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Artist Interview by Shaun Dale
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Joe Zawinul
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On Sunday, March 23rd 2003, the audience of the ‘Botanique’ in Brussels was surprised by a drastic change in the line up of Joe Zawinul’s Syndicate, but as soon as the music started, it became clear that bassist Linley Marthe from Mauritius and drummer Marc Gilmore would by far exceed the wildest expectations of those who are familiar...
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Artist Interview by Jempi Samyn
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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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David Haney
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Avant pianist David Haney creates a style of music that is appealing, a style that draws listeners into another world. Improvising on acoustic instruments, Haney bases his music on dialogue, rhythmic rather than harmonic development.
When asked why he prefers acoustic to electric or digital instruments, David responds, “I use as much of the piano as possible…the...
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Artist Interview by Jeanne Harman
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Mindi Abair
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Saxophonist Mindi Abair has been associated with music since she toured with her father's band until she was five years old. She said, "It looked weird to have a little kid in the club, but it seemed to be cool and normal to me." After being on the road, they settled in St. Petersburg, Florida where Mindi's dad...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Jeff Lorber
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Keyboardist Jeff Lorber returns to his Philadelphia roots with his debut release for Narada Jazz called Philly Style. For Lorber, it was getting back to the basics of how he got into the music field. He says that the roots grew stronger after he worked with producer and songwriter Steve Dubin on his last release Kickin' It. Lorber says,...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Karen Lane
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Where were you born?
Perth, Western Australia. One of the most beautiful landscapes with
miles of white sandy beach coast line, but also one of the most isolated
cities in the world. So fairly restricted in terms of variety of music
exposure.
Were your parents musical? did you come from a musical background?
You could tell my mum was very musical and she certainly...
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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Anatholi Bulkin
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JazzReview.com: Where were you born?
Anatholi Bulkin: I was born in Kalmar in the southeastern part of Sweden just outside of Nybro where we lived at the time. We moved around quite a bit after that though, and I was raised in a small town about 1 hour drive to the west from Stockholm called Surahammar. The first Swedish car...
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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David Liebman
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Only ten days after Joachim Kühn had performed solo in the Castle Vilain XIIII, situated just outside the idyllic village of Leut (Limburg-Belgium), the intimate concert hall of the castle with its Louis XV furnishing from ages ago, provided the scenery for Dutch contemporary jazz ensemble Nimbus with special guest David Liebman.
Nimbus is a full acoustic ensemble, except for...
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Artist Interview by Jempi Samyn
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Steve Turre
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Steve Turre should be the poster child for Old School of Jazz.
“I’ve always sought out the elders,” says the 53-year
old trombonist, “and always knew you learn how to play
by playing with people you admire.” Starting with an
early Bay Area apprenticeship with Rahsaan Roland Kirk
and studies in the groups of Art Blakey, Dizzy
Gillespie, Woody Shaw and McCoy Tyner, Turre...
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Artist Interview by Bill Smith
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Kenny Garrett
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So long as there are musicians like Kenny Garrett around, jazz has nothing to worry about. Garrett’s one off those players who gets into the music, penning compelling compositions, then exploring them deeply and thoroughly with a band of hand-picked, like-minded musicians.
The saxophonist has a new CD out, Standard of Language, and, as on his 10 earlier discs, it...
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Artist Interview by Richard C. Anderson
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