Portuguese guitarist Ricardo Pinheiro is all about melody and tone and meanwhile making up musical stories with a who’s who ...
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Parisian bass player Cédric Caillaud has very original and specific ideas about how to expand on the tradition. “There are ...
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Lyrical alto saxophonist and canny jazz entrepreneur Tom van der Zaal thought big and cooked up an album with strings ...
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Here’s part 2 for you and yours, Alvin Queen talking about his stint with Horace Silver, the European continent of ...
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Survivor. Last of the Mohicans. Royalty. Alvin Queen signed, sealed and delivered his statements in classic jazz. In part 1 ...
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More and more jazz lovers find the road to the conceptual jazz city of Dutch pianist Harald Walkate, whose band ...
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Nowadays Pierre Boussaguet writes arrangements for classical ballets and is finishing a record of songs and lyrics besides being a ...
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On audience with Jarmo Hoogendijk, trumpeter that reminisces on the impact of befriending Woody Shaw and sophisticated teacher that found ...
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Trumpeter Ellister van der Molen finally fulfilled her dream of visiting the prominent cradle of jazz, New Orleans. “Being in ...
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Mike LeDonne's love affair with the organ goes back to his childhood. "I love to make people dance. Well, at ...
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Carlo de Wijs is crazy. Not as a bat but as the fanatic organist that is dying to take the ...
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Eric Alexander picks some of his favorite recordings. "Do you want to go on a two-month vacation to discuss?! lexander, artist-in-residence ...
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Gregory Lewis is Organ Monk, a passionate champion of the dazzling catalogue of Thelonious Monk. “I hummed his melodies by ...
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Charming, talkative Peter Guidi guides us through his adventuresome career as flutist, saxophonist, bandleader and educator. “I teach my students ...
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A meeting with baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan isn’t complete without a mention of Encounter!, the masterpiece of his all-time bari ...
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Ruud Breuls, sideman par excellence and trumpeter in the renowned German WDR Big Band, lives and breathes straightforward modern jazz, ...
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Saxophonist Gideon Tazelaar, 19 years old, is one of Holland’s major jazz talents. Leaving his options open for the next ...
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In 1966, the 19-year old, jazz-addicted drummer Eric Ineke sat watching Elvin Jones at the legendary Five Spot Cafe in ...
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Manager Maja Lemmen (70) has been taking care of business at the Dutch jazz club and cultural theatre Porgy & ...
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At the distinguished age of 73, pianist Rein de Graaff preserves a childlike enthousiasm for his trade, which he typifies ...
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Dominique Jennings Brandon fondly remembers her father, the artist Richard Slater Jennings, a.k.a. “Prophet”, known among jazz fans for the ...
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“I’m not planning to be a bandleader just yet. I guess I’m still hanging in between the non-conformism that is ...
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Bruut! Noun; brute; bully; (slang) master, dope, heavy, da bomb – ‘brute sneakers, man’ or ‘listen to Wayne Shorter in ...
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In 1976 Dutch-Indonesian pianist Rob Agerbeek was recommended to tour Europe with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Agerbeek had strong doubts ...
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Our ears have been attuned to alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman’s suave and spirited jazz hodgepodge for more than two decades ...
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It takes some power of adjustment when coming upon that grittiest of instruments, the Hammond organ, in a clean-cut suburb ...
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Put Hans Mantel, bassist, jazz historian and radio host in a chair, ask him one question about hard bop, and ...
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