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Newly produced interview with Dizzy Gillespie

Source: J. Scott Fugate
September 30, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Talking Jazz with Ben Sidran Episode 2: Dizzy Gillespie Music Additions Remixed & Reproduced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Click here to listen The story: Back in the mid-80's on National Public Radio (NPR) in America, a show ran called Sidran On Record. Presented by Ben Sidran, a musician, author, lecturer and journalist, the show featured interviews with the great and the good from the world of Jazz. Miles, Dizzy, Herbie and Grover were amongst 60 ...

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Nat Hentoff on Dizzy Gillespie

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
September 29, 2010

"In the 1980s, there was to be a concert at Lincoln Center honoring [trumpeter] Dizzy Gillespie. He and a big band were, of course, to be at the center of the celebration. A few days before, I went to a rehearsal. Everyone was there except Dizzy. [Photo of Dizzy Gillespie in 1963] “No music was played. The only sounds were a bitter argument between Max Roach and Gerry Mulligan [pictured]. Each had some compositions on the program, and at the ...

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A Tribute to the McCoy Brothers (October 3, 2010)

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
September 28, 2010

In the Thirties, one of the great folk-blues-hot jazz bands was the Harlem Hamfats, who recorded a great many rocking sides for Decca's “race records" line. The band was sparked by the string playing of “Kansas Joe" (guitar) and “Papa Charlie" McCoy (mandolin) — who are buried in unmarked graves. Arlo Leach has organized a daylong tribute to the McCoy brothers: it's October 3, taking place in Chicago. And our own Andy Schumm will be playing the role of hot ...

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Violinist Christian Howes Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2010

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarist sand vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once such an important part of the blues group, has all but disappeared. Christian Howes—a classically trained violinist who has turned his hand to all ...

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JJ Grey and Mofro: True Warhorses

Source: JamBase
September 23, 2010

By Dennis Cook Maybe it's pounding soul of “All," the slinky strut of “Diyo Dayo," the synth-dappled, switchback funk of “Hide & Seek" or perhaps the crack-your-heart-open tenderness of “King Hummingbird," but something gonna get you on JJ Grey & Mofro's new slab, Georgia Warhorse (released August 24 on Alligator Records). Grey and his shifting ensemble specialize in 'getcha music,' the sort that runs its fingers through your hair, leaves lipstick on your collar and sometimes lifts your wallet and ...

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"An Effort to Become the IMDB of Live Music." Part 2 of an Interview with Michelle You of Songkick

Source: HypeBot
September 22, 2010

This is the second part of my interview with Michelle You, who is co-founder and Head of Product at Songkick; the live music database and concert alert system. In this segment, You talks the archival aspect of Songkick, how they've become the largest database of live music in the world, and the enornous opportunity before the record industry in the digital age. Kyle Bylin: The most active concertgoers aren't solely live music junkies as much as they are a different ...

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Guitarist Matthew Charles Heulitt Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 28, 2010

Guitarist/composer Matthew Charles Heulitt has been around for a while, gigging for over a decade in drumming master Zigaboo Modeliste's funk band. Heulitt is also a member of ex-Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden's band; it is therefore no surprise that he displays an acute rhythmic sense in his playing. In fact, Heulitt's approach to the guitar stems from the way he hears other instruments; he adapts the agility of the piano and horns into his playing, ...

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A 1977 Interview with Jaco Pastorius: The Florida Flash

Source: Groove Notes
September 26, 2010

By Neil Tesser (Downbeat, January 27, 1977) “There's a real rhythm in Florida," Jaco Pastorius says in a voice saturated in matter-of-fact. “Because of the ocean. There's something about the Caribbean Ocean, it's why all that music from down there sounds like that. I can't explain it, but I know what it is." He pauses to unclasp his hands, like gangly sandcrabs, and drop his lanky arms to the sides of his lanky body. “I can feel it when I'm ...

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