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Ragan Whiteside
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April 2008 - In my exploration for a new artist-entrepreneur, my friend Kari (who is a pundit of independent performer’s) set my course to a unique and vibrant siren that swings with a pioneering eloquence. Adorning a smile that would light up the Broadway skyline and a revolutionary instinct that is tenacious by nature, flutist Ragan Whiteside entered unplugged, into my compilation...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Carol Duboc
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April 2008 - "The concept began when I started looking for a special Valentine’s song. I
realized there weren’t many out there so I wrote my own.” Wow, what an easy way
for a conversation to begin, straight forward and right to the point.
Carol Duboc is a seasoned and experienced
songwriter/arranger/pianist/vocalist and all around music professional.
Talking about her fourth CD...
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Artist Interview by Bruce Pulver
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Raya Yarbrough
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April 2008 - “To me jazz is like a sponge of culture, you squeeze it out and you get new
jazz,” singer/songwriter Raya Yarbrough tells me during our recent conversation,
“I disagree with people when they say that jazz needs to be preserved and frozen
in (time). I think that dead things need to be preserved, and jazz is not dead,
it...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Jack Sheldon
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April 2008 - Jack Sheldon, a beacon for some 60 years on the West Coast jazz scene, is having
a very good year. At 76, the celebrated trumpet player, vocalist, bandleader and
TV personality, is the subject of a new documentary film, while his jazz career
continues to accelerate.
He was there when the so-called West Coast Jazz, a cooled-down version of...
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Artist Interview by Larry Taylor
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dee brown
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April 2008 - On the surface, the electric guitar and God aim to inspire two polarized
behaviors from people. The electric guitar is typically idolized for being loud
and wild, unlike the soft billowing resonance of the violins which people
associate with angels, God’s choir made in the image of himself. But smooth jazz
guitarist/arranger/composer Dee Brown shows us that the guitar...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Bradley Leighton
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April 2008 - The sub-contra bass flute, otherwise known as the Big Flute in orchestras, has the low registers of a bass guitar and a glossy squirming comparable to the oboe and woodwinds of its ilk. It is the type of instrument that you would expect a savvy flutist like Bradley Leighton to be attracted to, and sure enough, he owns one....
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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John Ellis
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April 2008 - Creating an eclectic cocktail with the swamp tradition of New Orleans and the suave sophistication of New York, John Ellis has created a cocktail of pure attitude on his new release, Dance Like There's No Tomorrow.
Though geographically hundreds of miles separate the cities, an undefeatable spirit joins them. Both cities have faced recent catastrophes but both are coming...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Victor Wooten
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April 2008 - Victor Wooten is a powerhouse jazz bassist out of Nashville Tennessee, who
graciously discusses his music, latest recordings, new book and his philosophy
and life as a musician.
JazzReview: I’ve listen to several of your music recordings and
this recording is different…
Victor Wooten: Yes.
JazzReview: Very spiritual, almost mysterious, although I’ve heard the
diversity in your music, the funk, jazz, blues, pop,...
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Artist Interview by Beatrice Richardson
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Sathima Bea Benjamin
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April 2008 - 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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Ellen Honert
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March 2008 - Echoing the element of traditional with diverse vocalization, Amsterdam’s Ellen Honert has hit the vocal jazz scene heavy with promise!
When I first spun the diabolically seductive tones of “Blue” from Ms. Honert’s debut release from Mill Station Records, Breath of the Soul, thoughts of a majestic romance came to mind. Ms. Honert seems to possess assured ingenuity along...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Virginia Mayhew
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April 2008 - With a lung capacity as mighty as the woolly-mammoth, saxophonist Virginia Mayhew shows that life is unpredictable, but always worth the challenges. Her battle with breast cancer put a halt to her recordings in 2005, although she released Sandan Shuffle in 2006 with her quartet. She tells, "I actually recorded Sandan Shuffle right before I discovered I had breast cancer. I...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Kem Owens
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- Adekemi Owens, known professionally and affectionately to music fans as “Kem,” has come a long way from Nashville, Tennessee to his current hometown of Detroit, Michigan. So, one figures that is why this musical genius has written and performed songs that could be considered as Jazz, R&B, Soul or Adult Contemporary. This Detroit native with Nigerian roots has overcome...
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Artist Interview by Alice Meikle
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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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Kat Parra
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- Sephardic jazz is the voice of the Spanish Jews, whom singer-songwriter Kat Parra has a special bond with as a descendent of this spirited community. This is the music that moves her and inspires her to reach into her soul and find her voice, which resounds stunningly on her latest release Azucar de Amor. The melodies have an ethnic...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Ana-Isabel Ordonez
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- The film documentary A Touch of Noir put together by Dr. Ana-Isabel Ordonez and François Olivieri pays homage to film noir, which is based on the dramatic look portrayed in German Expressionism and cinematography. Ordonez and Olivieri add a new dimensional to its presentation with live improvised music played by avant-garde musicians during the showing of these films in...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Ana-Isabel Ordonez
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- Film noir is a unique class of cinematography developed during World War II, whereby filmmakers made human emotions palpable on screen by manipulating the lighting and camera angles of the actors and actresses on film. The genre of film noir is based on German Expressionism and became popular in Hollywood during the 1940's and 1950's. Dr. Ana-Isabel Ordonez, co-founder...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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East East Bay Soul
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- “I think that we can pull from all of our lives’ experiences and our music. That’s where this is going to come from. It is going to be seasoned. It is going to be like a fine bottle of wine. We are going to uncork it and let it breathe,” says one of the world’s premier smooth jazz trumpeters...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Sonny Rollins
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March 2008 - Jazz great Sonny Rollins is gearing up for an ambitious touring season which will take him from the West Coast (April 3 at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall and April 5 at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Southern California)then East for appearances at Kennedy Center, April 18, and Morristown, N.J., April 26.
In May he will play in...
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Artist Interview by Larry Taylor
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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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Gerald Veasley
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- Bassist Gerald Veasely has been making strategic moves throughout his career. His newest CD is called Your Move, referring to the game of chess. He says, jazz is known for the fact that it has a lot of improvisation and a lot of thinking on your feet in the moment. There's a multiplicity of moves you can make within...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Pamela Hines
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March 2008 - As one journey’s down the ivory keys of a piano one stroke at a time, each note is an attitude, however, when harmonies are in union with others they become a relationship… soon to develop a story, the author is the musician and the beneficiary is the fan. Simple concept, but not so simple to orchestrate… So let me...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Taeko Fukao
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March 2008 - Taeko Fukao, a name widely known now, but in the very near future, artiste
Taeko the talent, will be synonymous with harmonic ingenuity and inventive
musicality. Taeko has unearthed emotional jazz both in performance and concept.
Talents are hidden beneath this Japanese born musical philosopher with a range
that is refreshingly crisp. Taeko also has a gift of putting fear...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Leslie Pintchik
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March 2008 - Pianist/composer Leslie Pintchik’s new CD, Quartets, follows
the success of her delectable 2004 debut, So Glad To Be Here.
Quartets actually features two different quartets, the core of
each being Pintchik’s working trio – Pintchik on Piano, Scott Hardy on Bass, and
Mark Hodge on drums. Percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and saxophonist Steve Wilson
round out the two quartets. We...
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Artist Interview by Kevin Cox
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Aaron Diehl
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March, 2007 - Sometimes it's possible to catch a rising musician at the very start of his career before he becomes better known to the general listening public. Such is the case with jazz pianist Aaron Diehl. Diehl is already making a name for himself in New York in joint concerts with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Eric Reed, Marcus Roberts, Wess Anderson...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Paul Carlon
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March 2008 - Cha-cha, bossa nova, mambo, conga, mariachi, salsa, rumba, and flamenco, may all be familiar to you as descriptions of Latin rhythms, but saxophonist Paul Carlon has taken his music much deeper into the inner circles of the Latin world. Whether he is composing music as a backup musician for another recording artist or with his Octet, a jazz quartet,...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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