[Dixielandjazz] John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey interviewed

[Marek Boym]

Robert Sokol (which, by the way, means "falcon") dams with faint
praise.  No, not John - Bucky.  "A noted jazz guitarist," he says.
Actually, he may, arguably, of course, be the very best there is,
without detracting from such as Howard Alden, Frank Vignola, etc.
Cheers

On 12 March 2011 21:50, Charlie Hull <charlie at easysounds.com> wrote:
> John and Jessica are appearing in concert tonight, March 12, at Folsom
> (California) College Auditorium.
>
> Charlie Hull
>
> On 3/12/2011 11:06 AM, Robert Ringwald wrote:
>>
>> Married to Music
>> by Robert Sokol
>> San Francisco Examiner, March 11, 2011
>> She's flying in from Portland rehearsals with Dave Frishberg and he's
>> coming off
>> a recording session, but when longtime couple Jessica Molaskey and John
>> Pizzarelli
>> return home from their two concerts at the Fairmont's Venetian Room this
>> weekend,
>> they will enjoy a rare treat.
>> "We'll actually sit next to each other on the flight home from San
>> Francisco," says
>> Pizzarelli, adding, "and without a child between us!"
>> Molaskey already had credits in shows like "Les Miserables" and "The Who's
>> Tommy"
>> and Pizzarelli was a well-established guitarist and recording artist when
>> they met
>> on Broadway in the 1990s.
>> Both were in the cast of the Johnny Mercer tribute show "Dream" with the
>> late Margaret
>> Whiting, who knew right away something had sparked. "She said, 'Jessica...
>> every
>> time you walk by that man your face gets all red!'"
>> Music abounds in the Pizzarelli family. John's father Bucky is a noted
>> jazz guitarist
>> and brother Martin is a bassist. Between his own releases and
>> collaborations with
>> both his wife and his father, Pizzarelli has been a principal artist on 40
>> albums
>> in the past 30 years. He's credited as a contributor to more than 100
>> more.
>> "If John has a day off in New York City he goes and plays... on someone's
>> record,"
>> Molaskey jokes.
>> Molaskey, who toured her first Broadway show here at the Curran Theatre,
>> is particularly
>> excited to be playing the Venetian Room. "I saw Oscar Peterson there back
>> in the
>> '80s," she says. "It was the first time I ever went to San Francisco."
>> The lineup of their show here is still being decided. "Which one are we
>> doing, John?"
>> she asks politely. "Well, we can do whatever you feel like doing, Jess,"
>> he replies
>> obligingly. It's not a lack of planning on their part, but an
>> overabundance of material.
>> "We have a bit of an embarrassment of riches these days because we haven't
>> played
>> San Francisco in quite a while," says Molaskey.
>> Like fine wine with good food, a recent trend for them has been pairings
>> of songs
>> that Molaskey says answer each other. "I'll play 'While My Guitar Gently
>> Weeps'"
>> says Pizzarelli. "Then I'll sing 'Killing Me Softly,' which is from the
>> perspective
>> of someone watching someone playing the guitar," Molaskey finishes.
>> "We never script a show," says Molaskey. "We both come from such different
>> places
>> in terms of approaching the music and we put it through our individual
>> filters and
>> hope that it comes out in a way that people like." Adds Pizzarelli, "It's
>> really
>> 52nd Street meets 42nd Street."
>>
>>
>> --Bob Ringwald
>> www.ringwald.com
>> Fulton Street Jazz Band
>> 530/ 642-9551 Office
>> 916/ 806-9551 Cell
>> Amateur (Ham) Radio K6YBV
>>
>> My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
>> She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3
>> seconds."
>> I bought her a bathroom scale.
>>
>>
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