New York Jazz Workshop Podcast - Conversations in Jazz: Recent Episodes
New York Jazz Workshop Podcast - Conversations in Jazz
In the latest installment of the New York Jazz Workshop in Conversation With podcast series, I speak with drummer/multi instrumentalist Gerry Gibbs. Gibbs was born in New York, but grew up on the West Coast and was steeped in LA’s rich jazz scene, playing with everyone from Donald Byrd, Alice Coltrane, Billy Childs, and Bennie Maupin among a host of others. In 1988 he relocated to New York and rose to the top of the […]
Part 1 of my podcast was so insightful that he came back at my request for a second interview. We discussed his mentors Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Miles Davis as well as his current band, and thoughts on trumpeters today. My thanks to Wallace Roney for taking time out of his busy schedule. Thanks to my long time friend Jason Isaac for assisting with engineering and post production. Interview recorded in New York City […]
Antonio Sanchez has been one of the leading lights of the drum scene for 20 years, having made his debut with Danilo Perez and in 2001 joining current employer, Pat Metheny. Sanchez has made his mark as a composer having won a Golden Globe for the score to the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu directed, Oscar winning Birdman, scoring the TV series Get Shorty, and as a sonic explorer recording Bad Hombre. On January 26th, Sanchez releases […]
Welcome to the latest edition of the New York Jazz Workshop Podcast, I’m CJ Shearn. Over the years on this podcast I’ve been fortunate to interview some of the up and coming talents on the jazz scene such as vocalist Thana Alexa, and alto saxophonist Logan Richardson. This trend continues in this episode where I feature a conversation with the phenomenal Los Angeles born and bred 22 year old pianist Connie Han, who released her […]
Percussionist Adam Rudolph has been called a “pioneer of world music” by the New York Times and rightly so, for the Chicago native has thrived in a variety of musical situations. In 1977 while living in Ghana he formed the important Mandingo Griot Society with legendary kora master and griot Foday Musa Suso, in 1978 he lived in Sweden and studied with Don Cherry, learning about Ornette Coleman’s harmolodic theory in the process. One of […]
For this edition of the podcast I bring you a discussion with bassist, songwriter and emcee Divinity Roxx. She has played in Beyonce’s band in the past decade as well as toured with Victor Wooten, and her music is an effervescent blend of funk, rock, hip hop and jazz. This past April she released her album ImPossible (Self produced, 2016) a wordplay on I’m possible, to critical and fan acclaim buoyed by the powerful single […]
For this edition of the podcast taped in May 2016, I interviewed trombonist and educator Brent Wallarab of Indiana University in advance of the release of Basically Baker, Volume 2 (Patois Records, 2016). The giant of jazz education David Baker, who had worked in George Russell’s ensemble making it one of the most distinctive in the music gave his all to his fellow students. In particular Baker’s writing is special, and the music on the […]
Gene Ess was born in Tokyo, and raised in Okinawa, Japan. At the age of 17, following growing up on an air force base, he came to the U.S. He came to prominence touring as a member of legendary drummer Rashied Ali’s group in the early 90’s, and has become one of New York’s most intriguing improvisers and composers. In September, he released Absurdist Theater a follow up to 2015’s Eternal Monomyth, with his band […]
Hailing from Nagoya Japan, Takeshi Asai is one of New York’s busiest pianists, and a thoughtful, resourceful improviser and composer. He has a huge following in both France and his native Japan and has released 13 records on his Des Trois Cites label, most recently French Trio, Volume 2 featuring Pascal Combeau, bass and Maxime Legrand on drums, and Takeshi Asai Solo: Live in New York. I discussed these two releases with him, his approach […]
Tony Moreno is a remarkable musician and human being. His brand new release Short Stories (Mayimba Jazz) is a testament to the will of the human spirit. As you will hear, the drummer lost his studio, drums, music, memorabilia from his mother the accomplished pianist, harpist and ethnomusicologist Nina Dunkel Moreno in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Through an outpouring of love from fellow musicians and friends, a keyboard was the beginning to the drummer […]