Barbara Dennerlein Boogies!
Barbara
Dennerlein is one of the premier musicians in the world. If you google her
on sites other than her own, you will find her described as a hard bop or
post bop organist, which only really scratches the surface, because this
gifted, German, Hammond B3 player can swing, boogie and create symphonies as
well. Riveting Riffs Magazine first became acquainted with the congenial
Barbara Dennerlein, while she was performing at MusicFest Vancouver in
August of 2010 one of the top music events in North America. With her new
album release BEBABALOO it was definitely time to catch up with Ms.
Dennerlein again and she was kind enough to talk to us as we conducted our
video interview with her, while she sat in her home in Germany.
“BEBABLOO was recorded during a single concert at the Hedenheim Engine Shed, which long ago was converted into a concert hall. “It was one concert that we recorded and it is always a bit of a risk, as you never know if everything is working well and if the mood and the atmosphere are great. These are things that you can’t predict. In the studio you can repeat things and live you can’t. We were very lucky, everything was perfect and the audience was great. People loved the music and the exchange of energy was wonderful. The sound was good and the musicians were very inspired. Everything worked well
Where In the World Is Agnes-Nicole Winter?
In
answer to the question posed in the headline, she is everywhere these days.
While Agnes-Nicole Winter is an accomplished actress, at the rate at which
her burgeoning film production company Global Star Films Inc. is developing
movies for the cinema and for the DVD / television market, she may soon find
herself in the enviable position of becoming the standard to which
independent film studios compare themselves. Winter’s company already has a
feature film, The Gold & The Beautiful, a comedy / parody of Beverly
Hills socialites produced and waiting to be released on DVD in the fall and
she has already been approached by television networks who want to air the
film. Global Star Films also has three other projects in the development
stage, the action adventure movie Precious Metal, which hopes to
start casting the roles in the fall of this year, Rock Me which will
be filmed in both Los Angeles and Sweden and The Mother Road,
a comedy written by Steve Walker. Agnes-Nicole Winter wrote the screenplay
for The Gold & The Beautiful, Precious Metal and Rock Me.
If Agnes-Nicole Winter’s film endeavors seem to signal a woman with a very busy life, consider this; she also is preparing to return to the television set this
Michèle
Duquet has enjoyed a distinguished career as a feature film, television film
and television episode actress. At the age of 17 she was personally invited
by Eileen Ford to stay at her home in New York City as Michèle began her
career as a model. While still in her early twenties, Michèle Duquet landed
significant roles in four feature films including Principal roles in
Police Academy IV and Three Men and a Baby. She has worked with
noted directors such as; Sofia Coppola, Leonard Nimoy and Alan Alda and
Michèle has shared the screen with; Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted
Danson, Ann Margret, Rod Taylor and Alan Alda.
Why is Carey Ott Looking Up?
“There
ain’t no upside living on the downside / There ain’t no downside in looking
up,” sings Carey Ott, a Nashville based acoustic rock guitarist, singer
– songwriter, and his easy flowing, laid back song reflects his demeanor.
Riveting Riffs Magazine had an opportunity to sit down with the affable
Carey Ott at Canadian Music Week this spring, where he performed in concert
on two different evenings. As for the song that we just quoted, it is
destined to become a monster hit, because it should easily transcend a
number of radio formats and it relies more on thoughtful words and melodies
which the listener can sing along with easily. Secondly, Ott as an ace in
the hole, with his longtime manager Gary Taylor who is like that Tasmanian
Devil that we used to see in cartoons; he is there one moment and then he
zips off to dive headlong into another task. When we first met up with
Taylor, who has been a force on the North American music scene for decades
he was surrounded by artists and CMW attendees, while he was talking on his
cell phone and accessing his email on his blackberry. Ott and Taylor
compliment each other well.
“I’m a pretty sensitive and emotional guy and that’s how I write. When the emotions are flowing, that’s when I do my best writing.
Mindi Abair Coming to You In Hi-Fi Stereo
It
had been about eighteen months or so, since I last had an opportunity to
catch up with the talented saxophonist, songwriter and producer Mindi Abair,
when she was performing at Seattle, Washington’s Jazz Alley and the release
of her new album In Hi-Fi Stereo, afforded the perfect opportunity to
congratulate her, on her election to the board of governors for the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy Foundation). Our
conversation also took place just prior to the PBS broadcast (June) of a
special tribute concert to Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominated
songwriter Diane Warren, in which Mindi Abair took part. An announcement had
just been released that she would also be appearing in an Adam Sandler
movie. On the eve of celebrating her fifth wedding anniversary with hubby
Jason Steele, Mindi Abair took time to sit down and talk to me about her
recent album.
“I love to make music with my friends and I always thought if you choose something that you like to do in life you will like to get up in the morning and do it and I think that goes hand in hand with; do something that you love and do it with people that you love. In my life the people who I have come up the ranks with playing music, I’ve held onto them and I feel like it is a really special thing to
Emma Ejwertz Goes in a New Direction
Swedish
alternative rock singer-songwriter Emma Ejwertz, formerly of the rock band
Nerviosa, which drew its inspiration from the dark and the hard music of
Hole and Nrivana and whose own songs “It Makes Sense,” “Strings,” and
“Killer,” were more surreal than they were raw, has adopted a much more
organic and acoustic stance with her recent music as a solo artist.
“A lot of chicks (come out to my gigs),” she says, laughing in a manner which for Ejwertz constitutes loudly and what for the rest of the world, would be considered something far more subtle.
" I think the audience is (made up of) pretty well young and more mature women. I think that is the audience. I think that guys like it too, I figured out a lot of women like the honesty in my music and they feel that they can relate to the music a little bit. There is not too much on it, it is just heartfelt. Women are very sensitive creatures who are emotional and they can relate to that. It comes easily to me to be (vulnerable). I have always been a wear your heart on your sleeve kind of a person. It is a part of my personality. I try to be tough, but I am very sensitive. It is part of who I am,” she says reflectively.
Matt Sorum: Beating a Different Drum
Matt
Sorum is known to music fans as one of the best drummers on the rock scene,
because he is a former member of Guns N’ Roses and The Cult and he is the
drummer for his current band Velvet Revolver. That however only begins to
scratch the surface of this multi-instrumentalist and multi-faceted man, who
it was our pleasure to interview recently. Matt Sorum as we discovered,
plays other instruments and sings, and he is a noted producer, likes to
design and he has had and will again in the future have, an exciting fashion
line that he developed. Sorum along with his partner Lanny Cordola founded
the philanthropic project named Global Sound Lodge and he is also a member
of the musical project Camp Freddy. In addition to all of that, he put into
place the various pieces of the puzzle, in terms of management, marketing,
publicity and development of the band Darling Stilettos, which has as one of
its members, Sorum’s girlfriend Ace Harper. During our interview with Matt
Sorum, we discovered a man who is relaxed, at peace with the world, is well
spoken, personable and genuinely loves the direction that his life is taking
right now.
Matt Sorum agrees that he is enjoying the way his life is unfolding, “Ya’, why not? The general public, probably want to pigeon hole you more than you
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