Alex Terrier

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I'm really happy to share with you the very first interview for Jazz Video Lessons! I'm glad that my good friend Roy Assaf agreed to be my guinea pig, we did run into some technical difficulties: it was intended to be a video interview but that didn't quite work... my voice is very low and I tried to improve that but it's not perfect so I apologize. But the content is great. Roy is a great musician from Israel, I met him in Berklee and he's been…

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I just finished Herbie Hancock's memoir, a must read to anyone remotely interested in Jazz. Easy to read and really interesting, I learned so much about Herbie. You can find the book on Amazon.

I would like to share some some extracts, perhaps some will start a conversation:

"We all have a natural human tendency to take the safe route - to do the thing we know will work - rather than taking a chance. But that's the antithesis of jazz, which is all about being in the present. Jazz is about being in the…

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It is one thing to study music and another to live the musician's life. Next week I will start a month-long tour with my good friend the bassist Rob Duguay. I hope that we will still be friends after spending a month together almost 24/7!

I will start one day earlier with a masterclass at the music conservatory of Cergy Pontoise and a concert that night with the students. On Tuesday 14 we will be playing at the Duc Des Lombards in Paris with drummer Donald Kontomanou.

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It's a pleasure to come back to Miami and play with some old friends. I was home for only 2 days since my last trip but the weather was so bad in New York that it was not so hard to get up at 5am for my 8am flight.
 

The day before I left

 Oh yes when it snows it's nice and fun, but when it melts it's not so fun anymore... And when it rains on top of that, it's time to go south!


 On my way to the airport, 6am, raining in NYC, sunny in Miami :)
I travel quite a bit and I have to say I really like Delta Airlines…

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Maranne Solivan: voice
Xavier Davis: piano
Matthew Parrish: bass
Gregory Hutchinson: drums


Le nouvel album Spark de la chanteuse Marianne Solivan est une réussite comme elle nous y avez déjà habitué avec ses 3 précédents opus. Qu'il est rare aujourd'hui de trouver une chanteuse de "jazz" qui swingue et qui connaisse et comprenne cette musique et son histoire. Qu'il est bon d'écouter Marianne Solivan qui est une digne…Read more

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“Mobro”, John Ellis, Parade Light Records, sortie 13 Mai 2014
Becca Stevens, Miles Griffith, Sachal Vasandani and Johnaye Kendrick on vocals
John Ellis on tenor and soprano saxophones
Alan Ferber and Josh Roseman on trombones
Shane Endsley on trumpet
John Clark on horn
Mike Moreno and Ryan Scott on guitars
Joe Sanders on bass
Rodney Green on drums
Roberto Lange on sound design

Album disponible sur Itunes et Amazon

Le saxophoniste et compositeur John Ellis…

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Pyramid, Pete Robbins, Hate Laugh Music, sortie le 28 Janvier 2013.

Pete Robbins: Saxophone Alto, Clarinette, Compositions
Vijay Iyer: Piano
Eivind Opsvik: Contrebasse
Tyshawn Sorey: Batterie

Album disponible sur Itunes et Amazon

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWVetulnzO0

Le saxophoniste Pete Robbins, qui est né à New York en 1978 mais a grandi dans le Massachusetts, présente son septième album en leader. Un artiste incontournable de la…

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