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Janiva Magness
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“I am very vulnerable, very fragile and sometimes just very human. Overall, we are talking about the human condition and I think about things like that. Why are we here in the first place? It isn’t to be separate. Music is a way of connecting with people and a way of connecting with me. I can’t sing about great...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Bob Reynolds
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Tenor saxophonist Bob Reynolds will be touring with John Mayer early in 2007. The two Berklee alumni have kept in touch over the years and although Reynolds has played the Monterey Jazz Festival, toured Japan and performed at the Kennedy Center, the upcoming gig with one of the music industry’s hottest young stars have to rate at the top...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Various Artists
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Jazz Review wants to thank Ann Hampton Callaway, Cyrus Chestnut, Brenda Earle and Sherrie Maricle for taking time to share with us their Christmas memories and plans.
Where did you spend Christmas growing up and what special memories do you have of that time?
Ann Hampton Callaway:
No one does Christmas like Chicago, with great white lights everywhere and snow...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Chris Washburne
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The first time Chris Washburne picked up a trombone, it was a rather auspicious occasion. The superbly talented jazz musician, bandleader and composer seemed to have fun in relating the experience to me. "I didn’t pick the trombone, the trombone picked me. When I was ten years old I wanted to play the trumpet because it was shiny and...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Rory Rory Partin Band
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Rory Partin is a renaissance man in the world of big band swing music. Although he wasn’t born when many of the standards that appear on his new CD The Very Thought of You were first written, he sings them with the same charm that made Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin and Nat King Cole household names.
One of the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Adi Braun
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Whether she
is singing in front of an audience, on a CD or talking to you, Adi Braun has a
sensuality that drips from every note and leaves you hanging on every word. “I
think we all sing about love,” she says. However, Braun is much more than lusty
vocals, she is a very good jazz singer who is...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Stanton Moore
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Take a space age sounding name like Galactic, mix in musical influences from Mardi Gras Indians and Professor Longhair, add some great honest sounding organic jazz tunes and you gain some insight into the music of drummer Stanton Moore and the influences that infuse his tunes.
Moore combines a career as the drummer for Galactic with a burgeoning solo career...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Cibelle
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“I like to be able to walk inside sound and touch this or that element,” says Brazilian singer Cibelle from her home in London, England. “I have this song, then this world starts growing inside of my head and I start painting that song out. I embrace that poem with sounds that, let’s say, helps this poem reach where...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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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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Kellylee Evans
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Try to put singer/songwriter Kellylee Evans into any one musical category, and marvel as she effortlessly soars over, glides under, dances around, or bursts through it. Her electric, eclectic, vibe is a heady brew of jazz, soul, blues, carribean, and more. Evans gained worldwide recognition as runner-up in the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, and her recently...
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Artist Interview by Kevin Cox
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Diva Jazz Orchestra / Five Play
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"We are
living with an attitude of gratitude and we perform that way,” says Sherrie
Maricle the bandleader for The Diva Jazz Orchestra and drummer with her quintet
Five Play based out of New York City. Maricle is one of the most delightful and
talented people that I have spoken to. She is engaging and genuinely grateful
for the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Charlie Fishman
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Watching Charlie Fishman at work is an exercise in perpetual motion. He is everywhere at once, making sure that details are taken care of for the latest Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. The festival is his personal campaign to awaken and enlighten jazz enthusiasts to the unlimited possibilities that Washington, D.C. offers. There is always music playing, whether it is...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Delfeayo Marsalis
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The Marsalis name has always been synonymous with Jazz music and some good ole’ Nawlings sound. Those Marsalis boys -- Wynton, Branford, Jason and Delfeayo have followed in the footsteps of patriarch Ellis for a sound that is uniquely theirs.
Delfeayo plays the trombone. It's an instrument he admits he has had a love affair with for years.
“It suits my...
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Artist Interview by Asha Small
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Kazu Matsui Project
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New Age and Smooth Jazz artist Kazu Matsui was born in Tokyo on June 5, 1954. He studied ethnic arts at UCLA after traveling through Europe and India in the mid 1970’s. He went back to Tokyo to teach Educational Theories at Toyoeiwa Woman's University. At the same time, Matsui began his music career with studio sessions that included...
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Artist Interview by Mary Jo Conniff
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Steve Cole
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Steve Cole: Chicago's Sound In smooth jazz, there has always been primarily two types of smooth jazz, West Coast style and East Coast style. However, there has been a growing voice out of Chicago that is giving smooth jazz listeners a third style that has a flavor all its own. Starting with pianist Ramsey Lewis, many artists who have...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Yaron Gershovsky
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If you are a film producer and are looking for someone to write the score for your next blockbuster movie—Hello! The one thing Yaron Gershovsky hasn’t done and would still like to do is write the score for a major motion picture. Gershovsky’s impressive resume includes the Manhattan Transfer, working on several major Broadway productions including Swing and City...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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ellen johnson
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“I don’t paint, so I guess in my music I try to paint (using) words and sounds. People have made mention that with this CD (These Days) they hear all these subtleties and nuances. I do that on purpose because I am not just trying to sing a song, I am trying to add colors to it with my...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Stacey Kent
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Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson have been making music together for 15 years. Their latest collaboration has the celebrated jazz singer making a special guest appearance on husband and saxophonist Tomlinson’s The Lyric. The effort has resulted in no less than album of the year honors at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards.
“This album was pure joy,” said Kent,...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Lynne Arriale
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Lynne Arriale’s music has been crossing demographic boundaries by thrilling both non-jazz and jazz fans alike ever since her CD Live at Montreux catapulted her to the forefront of the jazz community. Her lyrical style and her dedication in selecting material that allows interactive conversations from all styles of music (Beatles to Monk), has placed Arriale on the list of leaders. She...
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Artist Interview by H. Allen Williams
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Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
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Some of the
finest brass players in the world blow a spirited welcome on the opening and
title track to Dizzy’s Business.
Eighteen musicians including guest Roy Hargrove appear on this wonderful CD.
Slide Hampton directs and Roberta Gambarini blesses our ears with her wonderful
vocals. It is impossible to list all of the great musicians who comprise the...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Gladys Knight
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Gladys Knight is one busy lady. In addition to her concert performances, she is planning a concert tour to publicize her new CD, Before Me. She directs a Grammy award-winning church choir that will also have a new CD for the upcoming holiday season. When she’s not on the road performing, she’s in her new farmhouse redecorating, or traveling...
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Artist Interview by Ann Stahmer
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Vinny Valentino
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Although
Vinny Valentino is a guitar virtuoso, his talent with six strings often
overshadows his insight and genius as a composer. "I think that it is very
difficult in our world to wear many different hats and for people to be
accepting of those different hats. If you are a guitar player, you are not
really thought of as...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Ann Hampton Callaway
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It was Cyndi Lauper who rode the pop tune "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" in the early eighties, but Chicago born songstress, Ann Hampton Callaway, is one of New York City's bright lights in 2006, and she is the one having all the fun. The lady with the effervescent personality and fabulous vocals often refers to herself as...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Reuben Rogers
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"There is something about when you are so close and people can almost touch you. It is another feeling and that is the way I like it,” Reuben Rogers says in replying to my question about the type of venue that best suits him as an artist. The highly acclaimed bassist who earlier this year debuted his self-titled solo...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Wycliffe Gordon
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If you are a fan of jazz music and you haven't heard of Wycliffe Gordon, you have to get dialed in now! You have probably heard people make statements about other artists such as, "It is almost like he/she makes that instrument talk." Well Gordon does indeed give a human voice to his Edwards 500 bore trombone and he...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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