20th Vancouver International Jazz Festival
June 24th - July 3rd, 2005Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThe promotional claptrap of the public relations world is always off-putting, so to read that there are 1800 musicians participating in 400...
View ArticleDAVE HOLLAND - Interviews - 1973 & 1989
DAVID HOLLAND (1973)Song For The NewbornThe group known as Circle consisted of Anthony Braxton (reeds), Chick Corea (piano), David Holland (bass), Barry Altschul (percussion)Bill Smith: Circle is the...
View ArticleAnthony Braxton & Leo Records
A ContinuumAnthony Braxton and Leo Feigin share a certain persistent determination to document creative music. Leo, as a producer releasing numerous important recordings, beginning in 1979, and Anthony...
View ArticleDEREK BAILEY (1930 - 2005)
Christmas Day again. The e-mail from Martin Davidson simply read - "Derek Bailey died aged 75 in London in the early hours of December 25. He had motor neurone disease". I had been thinking of him,...
View ArticleOn the Road Again
Toronto & HavanaTravelling with Colston and EssjayIt’s November, the weather conditions on the west coast unpredictable with frequent storms presenting the possibility of being stranded even before...
View ArticleKENNY WHEELER - Windmill Tilter
The 1st in a series of Interview/Essays of Canadian MusiciansThat was some summer in London in 1966. The jazz scene, which I had left three years previously had changed so much. A new identity had...
View ArticlePAUL BLEY
The 2nd in a series of Interview/Essays of Canadian MusiciansOn February 6th, 1979, at Town Hall in Toronto, a really surprising occasion took place. Great Black Music Productions presented a concert...
View ArticleAnthony Braxton Interview 1973
The following dialogue is from an interview that took place in Toronto in June 1973. My questions have been edited out. The piece originally appeared in April 1974 issue of Coda Magazine.Music was...
View ArticleCecil Taylor
Unit StructuresThis interview took place at the Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada on September 7th/1974.Bill Smith: Last night, I read in Leonard Feather’s Encyclopaedia of...
View ArticleGEORGE LEWIS
Trombonically SpeakingForeword by George E. Lewis,December 2009This interview was done during my November 1975 visit to Toronto to perform a solo trombone concert, a medium that, as it happens, I later...
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