Speaks Out!
By Suzanne Lorge
Since 1995, the pianist/composer has turned out more than 30 albums as a leader, many of them on his own imprint, Imani Records. This year he’s been especially prolific, with two launches just weeks apart this past summer. He recorded the live album You Think This America with his Tarbaby trio; the second, Walk A Mile in My Shoe, with his Captain Black Big Band. His music, like this interview speaks truth to many of the issues faced in jazz, this country and the world.
By Aaron Cohen
By Josef Woodard
By DB Staff
By Ashley Kahn, Carlo Wolff, Philip Lutz and Terry Perkins
This year’s honorees are:
Carlo Pagnotta, founder of the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy
Terri Pontremoli, director of the Tri-C Jazz Fest in Cleveland, Ohio
David Demsey, coordinator of jazz studies at William Paterson University
Bob Sinicrope, retired director of jazz at the Milton Academy in Massachusetts
Julius Tolentino, jazz director of the Newark Academy in New Jersey
At this summer’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival guitarst/racantour extraordinaire Bruce Forman sat down with writer Ted Panken for a Blindfold Test following Forman’s one-man show called The Red Guitar. Extremely insightful, always entertaining, a number of his remarks parallel points he made during performance. Without further ado, this was Bruce Forman’s first Blindfold Test.
