Rebroadcast November 23, 2020.
Say the name "Jimmy Lyons" to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that [...]
Rebroadcast November 9, 2020.
How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh [...]
We were talking about "The Total Package" as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might [...]
Rebroadcast August 24, 2020.
There's a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can-- study, practice, master every scale [...]
Rebroadcast August 17, 2020.
Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get a least 3 opinions. [...]
Rebroadcast August 10, 2020.
Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and [...]
Rebroadcast August 3, 2020.
We have gotten all excited about "Big Data" in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info [...]
Rebroadcast July 27, 2020.
Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total [...]
Rebroadcast 2020.07.20.
The lineage: you are required to know everything that has come before you but you are also required, when in the act of creation, to [...]