Joey Calderazzo on All About Jazz!

 Pour certains entre nous la période des fêtes est un  peu longue sans le jazz. Sur ALLABOUTJAZZ  vous pourrez vous régaler avec le pianiste Joey Calderazzo, pianiste américain en Trio et comme membre dans le fameux quartet de saxophoniste de la Nouvelle-Orléans de Branford Marsalis.

Malheureusement ce quartet de Branford Marsalis n'a pas prévu de faire un tour en Europe en 2012, donc on ne pourra pas écouter ce musique de la Nouvelle Orléans moderne pendant le Festival Jazz à Junas 2012..

L'article sur Joey Calderazzo compte 4 pages, seulement en anglais, mais cela vaut la peine de lire.

Pour tout l'article cliquez sur: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40972 

Joey Calderazzo: Improviser in Top Form

By

R.J. DELUKE,

Published: December 19, 2011

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Creative musicians are generally an insightful lot: people that have curious minds but also have a sense of direction—a sense of purpose, if not a search for it. They express what they see, what they experience. Pianist Joey Calderazzo is among those.
A man of extraordinary talent at the keyboard, he's held the piano chair in Branford Marsalis' band for some 11 years and also spent a long tenure with Michael Brecker. Both of those men have had a huge influence on Calderazzo, and he is unabashed about saying so. He carries lessons learned from those relationships. He also stays in touch with what fellow pianists are doing and with what's happening on the music scene. He's interested in probing music, not just playing it.
He's currently leading his own trio, while still being a vital cog in the Marsalis organization. In fact, 2011 saw the release of a duet record with Marsalis—Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)—and the recording of a new Marsalis quartet album to be released in 2012. It has no title yet, but Calderazzo is high on it.
Speaking in the fall of 2011, Calderazzo had just come off the European leg of a tour with his trio. He was about to set off again with his men—drummer Donald Edwards and bassist Orlando Le Fleming—to Lebanon, Turkey, Norway and Italy. He was tired. Getting his own group out there requires a lot of energy. Traveling with Brecker or Marsalis is one thing, he notes. Negotiating his own trio around the globe is another. It isn't, he says, straightforward or glamorous. "I've been assured by everybody that no matter who you are, you've got to start somewhere," he quips. He looks forward to the trio performances, despite the rigor involved. He's glad to have his own group out there. Enjoying the performances makes it all worthwhile.