Tuesday, February 9, 2016

DownBeat Magazine

Stanley Clarke
Acoustic Renaissance
By Phillip Lutz
Four decades after redefining the role of the electric bass with the seminal fusion group Return to Forever, Clarke has embraced the role of musical man for all seasons—scoring films, mentoring young musicians and digging ever deeper into his first love, the acoustic bass.


Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Communing with the Spirits
By Ted Panken
DownBeat catches up with the gifted Cuban-born pianist during the Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival in Barcelona, where he performed with his quartet Volcán.


Ralph Moore
‘Shoot for the End of the Phrase’
By Claire Daly
The 59-year-old saxophonist, once a member of Kevin Eubanks’ Tonight Show band, finds himself in a transitional period of his career. He sits down with baritone saxophonist Claire Daly, a colleague and onetime Berklee classmate, to discuss his musical development and his plans for the future.

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