Andrew Gilbert
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January/February 2006 Artist Profiles
Mike Marshall: Braziliance
It may not be a clinical diagnosis, but Mike Marshall has an acute case of Brazil on the brain. The master string player has spent much of the past five years exploring various aspects of the South American nation's vast treasure trove of music styles and...
December 2005 Artist Profiles
Jenny Scheinman: String Thing
For the past 15 years Jenny Scheinman has been at the center of jazz's string renaissance, first in the San Francisco Bay Area and since 1999 in New York City. Both as a bandleader who has recorded a series of increasingly confident albums featuring original...
December 2005 Artist Profiles
Mamadou Diabate: Malian, Way Cool
Malian kora master Mamadou Diabate is a long way from home, but he has had little trouble making himself comfortable in American musical settings. As his surname indicates, Diabate was born into an illustrious family of griots, or jelis as they are known...
December 2005 Features
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Le Lush Life
The captivating vocalist’s latest CD is a love letter to France, but after years of living abroad Dee Dee Bridgewater is happy to be home again. Andrew Gilbert reports.
November 2005 Artist Profiles
Scott Amendola: Belief Systems
Scott Amendola's latest album is called Believe (Cryptogramophone), but the Oakland-based drummer has been making dedicated converts for more than a decade now. Since first gaining national attention with Charlie Hunter in the mid-1990s, Amendola has established...
November 2005 Artist Profiles
Dylan van der Schyff: Toys R Him
Like any great drummer, Dylan van der Schyff never rushes the music. A creative force on Canada's West Coast improvised music scene for the past decade, he recently released the first album organized under his own name. Featuring reed master Michael Moore...
November 2005 Artist Profiles
John Hollenbeck and the Claudia Quintet: Claudia's Main Man
While John Hollenbeck doesn't think of himself as a jazz drummer, he's one of the most inventive percussionists involved in the music, a bandleader who is actively expanding jazz's possibilities with his various ensembles. In a career marked by a deep commitment...
November 2005 News
Dave Douglas and Fatty Arbuckle: Keystone Cop
Dave Douglas has a soft spot for the abused and forgotten. Couple that with the trumpeter's passion for innovators and creative mavericks, and perhaps it was inevitable that he was drawn to Fatty Arbuckle, one of the greatest stars of the golden age of silent...
July/August 2005 Artist Profiles
Bill Tapia: Uke's Duke
Bill Tapia may very well be the oldest active musician in the United States. Born in 1908 in Honolulu, Tapia remembers playing his ukulele for American doughboys heading off to fight in World War I. But what's amazing about this 97-year-old isn't so much...
July/August 2005 Artist Profiles
Mark Masters: Unearthing the Masters
Mark Masters has a gift for finding jazz treasures hiding in plain sight. Over the past 15 years, the Southern California-based arranger has carved out a unique niche, developing programs for the Mark Masters Ensemble built around the work of neglected improvisers...
June 2005 Features
Miguel Zenon: El Compositor
This Puerto Rican native looks to the rural music of his homeland on his new Marsalis Music CD. Andrew Gilbert tells us why the alto saxophonist is poised to enter the compositional big leagues.
May 2005 News
Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Yo, Prince of Darkness!
Henry Kaiser, the globe-trotting guitarist best known for his far-flung world-music collaborations, and Wadada Leo Smith, the sagacious trumpeter and composer with roots in Chicago's AACM, might seem like an odd couple. But they've found fertile common ground...
January/February 2005 Hearsay
Maria Marquez
Maria Marquez is expanding the parameters of Latin jazz. With her luminous, cellolike timbre and supple rhythmic phrasing, the vocalist has painstakingly built her repertoire out of classic Latin American ballads, Brazilian standards and a vast treasure...
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ReportAbout Andrew Gilbert
As a teenage Deadhead in the mid-’80s, Andrew Gilbert experienced a series of jazz epiphanies at Santa Cruz’s Kuumbwa Jazz Center, starting with Sun Ra’s Arkestra parading through the audience chanting “We travel the spaceways/from planet to planet.” “I was already deep into Miles Davis, but I suddenly realized that jazz was as big as the universe,” Gilbert says. He covers jazz and world music for the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe and San Diego Union-Tribune. A JT contributor since 2004, Gilbert has written profiles of Miguel Zenón, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mimi Fox and Eric Alexander.