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Joe Farnsworth: In What Direction Are You Headed?
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
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Elina Duni: A Time To Remember
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.
Brandford Marsalis: sound is everything
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
Kassa Overall: Animals
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
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Marc Ribot: Connection
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.
Henry Threadgill: The Man and His Double
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.
Ute Lemper: Time Traveler
The famous German singer, now living in New York, is back, not only live, but with a new album, and we caught up with her on the sidelines of one of her performances in Italy
Rymden & Bugge Wesseltoft
The supergroup that unites bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström (both formerly of E.S.T.) with keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, an authentic guru of electronics applied to jazz, has just returned to Italy. And it is the latter that we wanted to interview.
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François Jeanneau: A musician biography
The Parisian saxophonist, composer and bandleader, who turned 88 in 2023, has been writing European jazz history since the 1950s. Here is the account of our interview with a fundamental and decisive figure in the musical life of those decades.
Helen Merrill: music has always been my life, and I belong to it as much as it belongs to me.
Years after our last interview - it was in 2009 - we return to the home of Helen Merrill, who turns 94 this month and has recently reappeared in public after a long period of silence, to attend an important evening in her honor.