Interviews

Exclusive interview with the youngest son and authentic musical heir of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, an authentic legend of African music and an artist with a very strong social value. What has become of Afrobeat today? And what is its role in Nigerian society?

At the age of 55 and after a 25-year career as a musician, Kyle Eastwood has finally turned his attention to the music associated with the numerous films of his father, one of the most important figures in the history of cinema. Here is what he told us in Perugia, on the occasion of the live presentation of the album.

Just across the street from the great trumpeter's historic New York home, an important museum has recently opened that collects the memories of a lifetime

Although the famous guitarist is known in more traditional jazz circles, his passions are many: from Pat Metheny to the Beatles to the musicals that are the subject of his new album. Let's hear what he has to say

No one expected such an advanced, seemingly “out-of-context” record from one of the most highly regarded exponents of contemporary mainstream drumming. Yet it happened, and we let him explain to us what his new direction is

We return to interview the Albanian singer on the occasion of the release of her fifth album for ECM: a work in which nostalgia and hope, love and separation, public and private are at the center, as well as references to different traditions.

Caught on the fly during the days of his recent performance at Umbria Jazz, the saxophonist submitted to our questioning and told us many interesting details about his approach to performing, composing and teaching

On his third album, the Seattle-based drummer (among many other things) confirms himself as one of the most fascinating and creative figures on the scene today. We interviewed him

Talking to the guitarist means consciously entering a whirlwind of ideas and visions that almost always flow from the pentagram and transistors into the public debate. History and the reading of the classics, which have always fascinated him, push him to return very personal visions of music mixed with the realist critique of modernity.

On the occasion of the publication of Easily Slip Into Another World, an autobiography that already ranks among the best books on jazz ever written, we met the Chicago maestro in New York and asked him to comment on some of the most important pieces of his work.