At Home
December 2006 By Mitchell Seidel
Stefon Harris
With its white walls, neatly placed paintings, spare decor and extremely tidy appearance, vibist Stefon Harris’ suburban Sayreville, N.J. home has “decorated by spouse” written all over it-—only in this instance, that spouse is Harris. Slightly over a year...
November 2006 By Mitchell Seidel
Billy Hart
The inner sanctum of Billy Hart’s Montclair, N.J. home is a basement music studio that serves as a combination listening room, recreation room and classroom for visiting music students. “This is it,” Hart says, referring as much to his life as he is to the...
October 2006 By Mitchell Seidel
Jon Faddis
With its old-fashioned soda-fountain counter, vintage metal stools and antique decorations, Baumgart’s Cafe in Englewood, N.J., is a special place. Its eclectic menu includes ice-cream sundaes, fresh-squeezed carrot juice, grilled-cheese sandwiches, fried...
September 2006 By Mitchell Seidel
Manhattan Plaza
Most musicians can only imagine the hardships experienced by their New York counterparts. In addition to the struggling to get gigs every day, there’s also dealing with a residence: the on-site parking, the tennis courts, the indoor swimming pool, the health...
July/August 2006 By Thomas Conrad
Jovino Santos Neto
To spend time with Jovino Santos Neto at his home in the Madison Park district of Seattle is to realize that an artist’s personal space is not defined by his living quarters. The apartment that Neto and his wife, Luiza, have shared for 10 years is small...
June 2006 By Katherine Silkaitis
Marion Meadows
It’s true that musicians aren’t exactly famous for their physical prowess—thankfully, you can make great music without spending hours at the gym. But saxophonist Marion Meadows doesn’t follow convention. The Heads Up recording artist has nine albums, including...
May 2006 By Bill Milkowski
Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen is busy pulling together a blizzard of last-minute details before packing up her trumpet and heading off to the airport for an early-morning flight to Minnesota with the Maria Schneider Big Band. This time it’s a two-week tour before she returns...
April 2006 By Bill Milkowski
Richard Bona
An awe-inspiring view of the Manhattan skyline provides the backdrop for Richard Bona's spacious loft in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. While the neighboring old brownstones are no more than three or four floors, Bona's renovated co-op building towers over...
March 2006 By Bill Milkowski
Maria Schneider
Composer-arranger Maria Schneider has found a sweet haven on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where she has been living and working since 1993. Upon entering her cozy, one-bedroom apartment in a rent-controlled building on 72nd Street, located just half a block...
November 2005 By Janine Coveney
Poncho Sanchez
On rare days off in Southern California, Poncho Sanchez enjoys relaxing with vintage music in his second-floor den. It's a long, bright room with an electric keyboard, three hand-painted Remo conga drums and various percussion pieces (guiro, caxixi, bongos...
