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December 2008 By Jeff Tamarkin
David “Fathead” Newman
A visit with the saxophone legend, months before his death
November 2008 By Jeff Tamarkin
Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton pauses during a conversation, turns to Jazz-Times and asks, “How old did you say I was, man?” It’s not that he’s forgotten, because his mind is as sharp as a direct hit on a snare. Hamilton is just seeking confirmation because, despite some...
October 2008 By Shaun Brady
Clifton Anderson
Plenty of jazz musicians and fans have pictures of Sonny Rollins hanging in their homes. Very few of them, however, choose to hang the legendary saxophonist’s junior-high class photo. But for trombonist Clifton Anderson, the Saxophone Colossus is also known...
September 2008 By Bill Milkowski
Joe Lovano & Judi Silvano
Tucked away in the scenic Hudson River Valley, about an hour drive from Manhattan, lies Villa Paradiso, the lush, four-acre home of saxophonist Joe Lovano and his wife of 24 years, singer-flutist-educator Judi Silvano. For big-city dwellers used to cramped...
August 2008 By Shaun Brady
Pat Martino
In a sense, the South Philadelphia rowhouse that Pat Martino calls home is a reflection of the dramatic schism that brought him back to it, at once a reminder of the past and a blank slate which he’s laboriously rebuilt from scratch. Martino’s parents bought...
June 2008 By Josef Woodard
Charles Lloyd
To find Charles Lloyd, the veteran saxophonist and survivor of the jazz wars, proceed 3,000 miles west of the jazz mecca of NYC, turn right at Los Angeles and proceed up into the affluent wooded Montecito, by Santa Barbara. There, in a rustic yet sprawling...
May 2008 By Willard Jenkins
Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield is an animated, supremely self-confident 30-year-old with an easy laugh, a growing command of the trumpet and a soul-deep commitment to all things New Orleans. He lives in New Orleans’ uptown sector, in a comfortable yellow frame house with...
April 2008 By Shaun Brady
Gerald Veasley
“I’m not a superstitious person, by any stretch of the imagination,” insists Gerald Veasley, a claim borne out by the fact that immediately upon taking a seat on the large, comfortable green couch in the bassist’s living room, I’m greeted in rapid succession...
March 2008 By Jeff Tamarkin
Dave and Iola Brubeck
Unless your visit to the spacious and spectacular Wilton, Conn., home of Dave and Iola Brubeck takes you to the back rooms that most guests never have reason to see, you’d miss it. So when your eyes happen to gaze upon a particular piece of art hanging on...
January/February 2008 By Jeff Tamarkin
Bill Charlap and and Renee Rosnes
The two-car garage isn’t the first thing a visitor notices upon entering the suburban New Jersey home of Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes. It’s the two-piano living room. The Steinways cuddle in the center, leaving little space for furniture or much else. The...
