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December 2007 By Andrew Gilbert
Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson loves the simple life. Golfing. Fishing. Chopping wood. Hanging with his family. Playing ballads at sensuously slow tempos. He’s always been among the most physical of vibraphonists, often delivering notes with a flourish of body English...
November 2007 By David French
Jeff “Tain” Watts
I moved here in 1998,” said drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. “I was working a lot, still in Wynton Marsalis’ band, and my manager at the time told me, ‘It’s time for you to invest in some property.’ I saw an ad on a Sunday for a 1,300-square-foot loft in downtown...
October 2007 By Jeff Tamarkin
Graham Haynes
Graham Haynes doesn’t own an iPod or even a cell phone. Most of the CDs and DVDs on the shelf in his comfy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a block from the northwest corner of Central Park, belong to his girlfriend, Lincoln Center lobbyist Melissa...
September 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
Michael Wolff
There are only two residents of pianist Michael Wolff’s Greenwich Village household you might not ask for an autograph. One is E.T., the family’s appropriately named French bulldog. The other is Wolff himself, who, despite a five-year, high-profile stint...
July/August 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie had spent time Pearl Harbor Day in 2003 digging his car out after one of the heavier snows that hit the hilly area where he lives, about 35 miles north of New York City, when he decided to pause from his labors and go inside. That’s when...
June 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban émigré Paquito D’Rivera said he came to find his stately three-story brick home in North Bergen, N.J., with the view of the Hudson River and Manhattan, “thanks to my love for old cars. I was riding my Volkswagen ’62 around [John F. Kennedy] Boulevard...
May 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
Tierney Sutton
Tierney Sutton is far more lovely in person than she appears in photographs, and she’s taller, too. Standing in her cozy, shaded kitchen wearing jeans, a simple black wrap top and sandals, with her long titian hair waved around her face, she looks like a...
April 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
Rufus Reid
It’s a dank, dreary, mid-January day in Teaneck, N.J., and Rufus Reid is relaxing in one of the two places you can usually find him at home: his kitchen. Bright, cheery lighting and some hot tea help to lift the mood. A rack of mugs with a sign admonishing...
March 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
Winard Harper
There are a number of ways to describe Winard Harper—jazzman, drummer, composer—but the term that probably best describes him is family man. That’s because Harper, besides being an extremely in-demand sideman and leader, has an equally important role, with...
January/February 2007 By Mitchell Seidel
Geri Allen
You’d drive right past Geri Allen’s home in semi-upscale suburban Essex County, N.J., if you weren’t looking for it. A high row of hedges separates a wooden fence from a busy local street, with only a number on the front gate breaking the anonymity. Once...
