Author: Rosie
2017.10.02 Reggie Sylvester on Bern Nix
Rebroadcast November 15, 2021.
"You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right [...]
Melvin Van Peebles
The most interesting man in the world? You won’t find him in a beer commercial. Until yesterday, he lived right across the street from me. [...]
2018.07.23 Andy Caploe on Ed Blackwell
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning [...]
Phil Schaap
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivaled radio programming or his Grammy-winning [...]
2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 23, 2021.
Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to [...]
2013.11.04 Melvin Gibbs on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 16, 2021.
This is part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about [...]
2013.10.21 Eric Person and Roger Cramer on Ronald Shannon Jackson
"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his [...]
2018.08.06 Henry Schroy and Negro Leo on Nana Vasconcelos
Rebroadcast August 2, 2021.
The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great [...]
2013.01.13 William Hooker on Elvin Jones
Rebroadcast July 19, 2021.
How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral [...]
2018.03.05 Steven Bernstein on Roswell Rudd
Rebroadcast June 28, 2021.
What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have [...]