LOUDMOUTH ARTICLES & REVIEWS 2022-
This folder contains reviews and articles written by various authors for the Music Trust’s e-zine Loudmouth. Readers can click on the INDEX button for a list of reviews or articles in this folder.
Adrian Mears
CODY’S 10 x 10. INTERVIEW 7: ADRIAN MEARS
by Chris Cody
Loudmouth, March 1, 2022
Based in Germany, Adrian Mears’s career is distinguished by performance and recording credits alongside the likes of the Vienna Art Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Brookmeyer`s New Art Orchestra, McCoy Tyner`s Big Band, the NDR big band with Tim Hagans, Bobby Shew, James Morrison, Don Pullen, Eddie Palmeri, Charlie Mariano, Joey Calderazzo, George Mraz, Adam Nussbaum, Don Friedman, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Seamus Blake and many more. He has a long list of recording credits among his own six CDs as a leader, which can be found on the ENJA label, TCB records or on the Blue Note label together with the Scales Brothers, and 176 as a sideman…
Chris McNulty
CODY’S 10 x 10. INTERVIEW 8: CHRIS McNULTY
by Chris Cody
Loudmouth, March 31, 2022
Acclaimed vocalist-composer Chris McNulty’s emergence on the international jazz scene began around 1991 with the release of her first album in the USA. She went on to release several critically acclaimed albums and has toured extensively around the world. McNulty relocated back to Australia at the beginning of 2016 and is currently based in Perth after completing a Bundanon Trust Composer Residency in late 2019…
Nicki Parrott
CODY’S 10 x 10. INTERVIEW 9: NICKI PARROTT
by Chris Cody
Loudmouth, April 30, 2022
Nicki Parrott is a world-renowned double bassist and jazz vocalist. She came to New York in 1994 on an Australia Council grant to study with the bassist Rufus Reid. Since 2000, she played on Monday nights at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York with the legendary guitarist Les Paul, until his death in 2009. Nicki and her sister Lisa Parrott headlined at the Tribute to Mary Lou Williams festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in May 2002, which was broadcast on National Public Radio. She was also resident bassist with the Kitchen House Blend which premieres and performs new music by New York composers. Since coming to New York Nicki has performed with many notable musicians, too many to list here. Born in Newcastle, Australia, she started her musical training on piano at four, and soon after took on the flute as well. She switched to the double bass at 15 because her saxophonist sister Lisa wanted a bassist for her group…