Tag Archives: piano
A Jazziz Article on McCoy Tyner from 2003 {Plus Interviews}
To mark the 73rd birthday of piano maestro McCoy Tyner, I’m posting a feature article about that I had the opportunity to write for Jazziz in 2003. I’ve attached below the verbatim transcripts of the two interviews that I conducted … Continue reading
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Two Interviews with Mal Waldron on The 86th Anniversary of His Birth
For the 86th birthday anniversary of the pianist-composer Mal Waldron, I’m offering a pair of interviews conducted during the last 16 months of his life. Our first encounter occurred in late August of 2001, when Waldron was performing at the … Continue reading
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An Interview with Dave Brubeck, July 23, 2007
A recent press release from the Detroit Jazz Festival stated that 90-year-old Dave Brubeck, advised by his doctors that it would be a bad idea for him to travel, had cancelled his scheduled concert, A vivid force in American music … Continue reading
It’s Ahmad Jamal’s 81st Birthday
A few weeks ago, the unfortunate news went semi-viral that the U.S. government had blocked Ahmad Jamal, who turns 81 today, from receiving a $10,000 fee for a forthcoming performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, citing the bank transfer as … Continue reading
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Andrew Hill’s 80th Birthday Anniversary
“When I was a child, I was able to write music without hearing it,” Andrew Hill told me in the spring of 2000, during one of several conversations for a DownBeat article that ran later that year. “I’d write it … Continue reading
The Pile (#6): Orrin Evans, Freedom
Over the past few weeks, via Facebook, I’ve been communicating with a cohort of people, all but a few of whom are complete strangers, who share with me the singular experience of spending our childhoods and teen years in Greenwich … Continue reading
Interview with Dave McKenna (May 30, 1930-October 18, 2008)
Via Larry Appelbaum’s birthday notifications on Facebook comes word that today is the mutual birthday of Benny Goodman and the singular pianist Dave McKenna. One of the great originals, McKenna, a basically self-taught pianist out of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, went … Continue reading
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