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Jazz and Travel... what a natural fit!
In this installment of Mondo Jazz we explore music that was inspired by the relentless travels that jazz musicians have to endure in order to share their music with their audiences, their departures and arrivals, their discoveries, adventures and misadventures using trains and planes and the places and the people they encounter as they travel, in space and in time.
Playlist
Ben Sidran, "A Good Travel Agent" from On the Live Side (Magenta Records)
Jerry Granelli, "Wanderlust" from A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing (Evidence)
Michael Blake, "Departures" from Fulfillment (Songlines)
Duke Ellington, and His Famous Orchestra "Mount Harissa" from Far East Suite (Bluebird)
Randy Weston, "Niger Mambo" from African Cookbook (Rhino Atlantic)
Ben Allison, "Mauritania" from Buzz (Palmetto Records)
Michael Blake, "The Champa Theme" from Kingdom of Champa (Intuition)
Youn Sun Nah, "Calypso Blues" from Voyage (ACT Music)
I love jazz because it's an area of music where I am free to incorporate everything I've
experienced in music, including multiple genres and global cultures, and creatively express
myself as a composer and improviser
I love jazz because it's an area of music where I am free to incorporate everything I've
experienced in music, including multiple genres and global cultures, and creatively express
myself as a composer and improviser. I see jazz as a big tent music, and have tried to avoid
worrying about what of style of music I play so much as do I express the various styles I've
absorbed in a way that is honest and personal. As a guitarist, it means I cover a lot of
different sounds, and as a composer it means I draw on a lot of different influences quite
freely.
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