Airborne Q & A (Full Article)
Airborne Q & A
| POSTED BY: jtruelson | POSTED ON: 03/30/07 02:52:53 | ||
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The music is intricate and exciting. The musicians are masterful and precise. The female and male vocal abilities are outstanding. Mix in today's modern world emotions and technology and you get skilled professionals letting it loose and creating their own unique and trademark jazz sound.
How do you classify your jazz sound?
The music is warm-toned yet very powerful inserting us into both today's commercial Smooth Jazz & Vocals and the more Contemporary Jazz, College and Public Radio formats. Does the jazz group have vocal ability? Yes. we are blessed with great male and female vocal ability. Almost everyone sings in the band. It helps us crossover and communicate to non jazz lovers. How long has the group been together and where is the band from? The band was formed in the late 1980's. Dean Kosh, drums joined in 1995. The only personal change since the band was created in our hometown of New Haven CT. With the exception of our very talented female singer and percussionist. Who are your influences? The great pioneer artists of modal, funk, fusion, and Latin jazz. Artists such as Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Pat Methany, Spyro Grya, Weather Report,. Rippingtons, Yellow Jackets, .etc. But of course your straight ahead and be-bop artists as Monk, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, etc... will always have our interest and respect. Vocalists such as Peabo Bryson, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Manhattan Transfer, Stevie Wonder, Motown and Old School Soul Artists keep us in the groove.
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