A lengthy and very informative interview with jazz guitarist John Abercromie has recently been published by All About Jazz. Here’s a snippet:
AAJ: What kind of gear do you take on the road? One or two guitars? Do you bring an amp or backline one?
J.Abercrombie: I always backline. You can’t bring amps on the road anymore. You can barely even get your guitar on the plane these days. Lately I just take this Brian Moore guitar and a little box with some effects. The main effect I use, and I’ve been using it for about twenty years, is little stereo effects processor made by the Boss company, which is a subdivision of Roland, called the SE-50. It’s just a little half-rack unit that has multi-effects—reverb, delay, chorus and a lot of really useless stuff that I don’t use like distortion and compression. I just generally use it for the reverb and the delay and sometimes maybe a very little bit of chorusing. That’s changed over the years. I used to use a lot more of that effect. During the eighties, I was using more chorus; I was addicted to it. As I get older, I find that that sounds like too much to me. My sound is getting a little more pure over the years—less effected, more direct.
Read the full interview here.
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“, was released last July by Nu Groove Records. The album includes ten songs, nine of which are her own creation. Born in Japan and now based in New York, Machan has shared stages with artists ranging from Pat Benatar, Aretha Franklin, George Benson to Pink Floyd, Hiroshima and Sting. Her experience in the pop and jazz worlds has marked her eclectic voice as a songwriter. “Motion of Love” is an album with both a pop and a Brazilian vibe, where the breeze of bossa novas and the sound of nylon string guitars are combined with pop and rock melodies with catchy arrangements. The CD features guest appearances by jazz greats Randy Brecker, John Medeski, John Scofiled, and Brazilian percussionist Portinho, as well as from Government Mule’s Danny Louis. 
After seven years of separation, Rage Against the Machine made its first appearance in New York this past Saturday, July 28, at the “Rock the Bells” festival. This was the first of two shows in a festival that drew around 70,000 fans and included hip-hop artists Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, the Roots and Talib Kweli. Another concert featuring Rage Against the Machine at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin on August 24 has also been announced with Queens of the Stone Age. However, when asked if the band were planning on recording a new album, Morello answered:
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