17 April 2018
Jamie Baum / Karriem Riggins
Mike Holloway talks to the flutist Jamie Baum about her two ensembles, a septet and the band Short Stories, about the influence of Thelonious Monk and Wayne Shorter, about her musical background and her interest in Eastern music, as well as about her choice of the flute and enjoying teaching at flute clubs and clinics all over the country ( Wisconsin Gazette). --- William Ketchum III talks to the drummer Karriem Riggins about his second career as a hip-hop producer and how the two intersect, about the start of his career playing with the singer Betty Carter at the age of 17, about his first hip-hop experiences and his collaborations with pianist Robert Glasper, about the trio August Greene with Glasper and the hip-hop star Common, as well as about the film "13th" about the relationship between race and mass incarceration in the US to which August Greene provided the song "A Letter to the Free" which ended up winning an Emmy ( Detroit Free Press).
18 April 2018
... what else ...
The critic Howard Reich selects some unforgettable performances he witnessed during his long career as a jazz journalist ( Chicago Tribune). --- James Karst finds a newspaper clipping about King Oliver's band in New Orleans from the year 1918 ( New Orleans Times-Picayune). — Daniel Kreps talks to Q-Tip who will teach a course on jazz’s influence on hip-hop ( Rolling Stone). --- Seth Colter Walls hears the American Composers Orchestra fusing jazz and classical at Zankel Hall ( New York Times). --- Bill Turque ( Kansas City Star), Laura Spencer ( KCUR) and Jenée Osterheldt ( Kansas City Star) report about organizational problems of the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. --- Wolfgang Sandner talks to the German drummer Jean-Paul Hochstätter ( FAZ). --- The German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach turns 80, and Roland Spiegel sends his regards ( BR-Klassik). --- Jakob Baekgaard talks to the drummer Chad Taylor (All About Jazz). --- Ludwig Reitz talks to the saxophonist Don Menza ( Oberpfalz-Netz). --- The Russian saxophonist Igor Butman complains that the JazzAhead trade fair in Bremen turned down his band for a showcase concert in favor of, as he argues, "much weaker" European acts ( TASS). --- Christoph Irrgeher talks to the British composer (and former bassist) Gavin Bryars ( Wiener Zeitung). --- The city of Neuss has produced a video introducing the Hungarian-German clarinetist Lajos Dudas both in music and conversation ( Vimeo). — Oliver Hochkeppel asks why there is just one full-scale jazzclub in Munich, Germany ( Süddeutsche Zeitung), but also sees a lively traditional amateur scene in that city ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ). — The rapper Kendrick Lamar will receive a Pulitzer Prize for music for his album “Damn” ( New York Times). — The German saxophonist Sebastian Gille will receive this year‘s SWR Jazz Award ( SWR).
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