Interviews

Weaving: A Conversation with Janel Leppin

As an art form, weaving requires different threads to combine into one to create a sturdier whole cloth. How the…

2 years ago

Saving the Duck: A Conversation with Alfredo Colón on ‘Blood Burden’

Self-expression lies at the heart of all art. Creation that fails to reflect the artist's spirit will never be able…

2 years ago

Double Bill : A Conversation with Bill Frisell and Bill Morrison

Albert Einstein once remarked, “Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the…

2 years ago

Freeing the Lion: A Conversation with James Blood Ulmer on Harmolodics and the Black Rock Trio

Great artists have honed a sound that is identifiable regardless of the environment surrounding them. The truly brilliant, however, are…

2 years ago

Channel to the Future: A Conversation with Elliott Sharp on ‘Die Grösste Fuge’

Throughout the ages, some of the greatest composers have gifted to the world pieces not meant for their time. Often…

2 years ago

Bringing the Instrumental Back: A Conversation with Molly Miller on ‘The Ballad of Hotspur’

From the 1940s through the 1960s, even into part of the 1970s, instrumental music reigned supreme in the popular consciousness.…

2 years ago

Physical Expression: A Conversation with Steph Richards on ‘Power Vibe’

Far too often, people perceive music as a solely auditory experience, something heard but which does not affect the rest…

2 years ago

Constructing Sound: A Conversation with Tomeka Reid on ‘3+3’

Joann Wolfgang von Goethe once remarked, "Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” But the philosopher is hardly the…

2 years ago

Spontaneous Combustion: A Conversation with Chloë Sobek and Tim Berne on ‘Burning Up’

Artists have long written compositions that express emotional depths possible only through music. These songs can bring the listener to…

2 years ago

Pass Everything in My Soul: A Conversation with David Murray on ‘Francesca’

The love song is one of the oldest and most primal forms of musical expression, dating back to ancient Greece,…

2 years ago