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On The Cover:
ROBERTA GAMBARINI
(by Ori Dagan)
“Ella Fitzgerald was probably the first recorded human voice I heard in my life. My father played her music all the time. I was not even a year old yet but I was hooked at first listen,” remembers vocalist Roberta Gambarini….”
Interview:
LUCIAN BAN
(by John Sharpe)
Since pianist Lucian Ban moved to NYC from his native Romania in 1999, he has established himself as a distinctive bandleader and composer who marries the jazz vernacular, from bop to free, with traces of an almost chamber music abstraction…
Artist Feature:
ELI YAMIN
(by Tom Greenland)
Where does Yamin get his blues power? “I’m trying to get our young people in proximity to the veterans of the music, to get them to feel the vibration,” he explains. “I invent all these different scenarios to make that happen, like a jazz musical where Sun Ra Arkestra members are playing with 12- and 13-year-old kids, with a common purpose to tell the story…
Encore:
OLU DARA
(by Jeff Cebulski)
At this month’s Festival of New Trumpet (FONT) Music, an “Award of Recognition” will be bestowed—in absentia (due to health issues)—to the respected cornetist, trumpeter, guitarist and vocalist Olu Dara, now 84…
Lest We Forget:
MEL TORMÉ
(by Ken Dryden)
With a smooth, mellow vocal tone, he was known as “the Velvet Fog.” Mel Tormé, whose centenary we celebrate this year, was not only a singer but a composer, arranger, drummer, pianist, actor and author…
VOXNews
(by Tessa Souter)
This month’s VOXNews column is dedicated to jazz vocal icon, Sheila Jordan (1928-2025), whose passing last month (Aug. 11) has left a huge hole in the entire jazz community…
LABEL SPOTLIGHT:
SCATTERARCHIVE
Curiously, the dictionary definition of thanatosis is a “defensive behavior where an animal simulates death to avoid predation, characterized by a state of apparent paralysis and unresponsiveness to stimuli….”
Album Reviews
In Print, On Screen, Boxed Set, Drop The Needle Reviews, Globe Unity…
