PONCHO SANCHEZ
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Poncho Sanchez Heart of the Conga: Southern California’s own conguero carries on the traditions of Tjader, Puente and Santamaria.
Jazz Interviews
JOE LOVANO
VIDEO Us Five Folk Art at Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián in 2009 VITALS Joe Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 29, 1952, to Sicilian-American parents. His father, tenorman Tony “Big T” Lovano, taught him all the standards, how to lead a gig, pace a set, and be versatile enough to always …
STEVE TYRELL
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Steve Tyrell ‘The Good Life’: Whether composing hits for others or singing standards, it’s an ‘artist’s life’ for him. Born Stephen Louis Bilao III in Texas on December 19, 1944, and fronting a hit-making r&b outfit at 15, Steve Tyrell would forsake the ‘artist’s life’ by the time he …
RICKIE LEE JONES
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Rickie Lee Jones The wondrous world of the beat angel and poet songwriter
TOWER OF POWER – EMILIO CASTILLO
HE’S GOT TO FUNKIFIZE Emilio Castillo Sessions with the co-founder-saxophonist of Oakland’s Top Brass. n 1970, news of the debut album from a horn-driven band from Oakland, California spread like honky pox through the USC Marching Band’s trumpet section. Two-year-old Tower of Power’s East Bay Grease was something different in the musical evolution of late …
MARCUS MILLER
Tutu Revisited Marcus Miller Afrodeezia Marcus Miller The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg Marcus Miller INTERMISSION: 15 MINUTES WITH… MARCUS MILLER Jazz and funk basics from the omnipresent musician, composer and arranger. n 2006, on assignment from the Long Beach Press-Telegram, I spoke to Marcus Miller, the multi-instrumentalist behind Miles Davis’ landmark ‘Tutu’ recording and …