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Eric Weissberg
03/23/2020
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I don't know if you know the name, "Eric Weissberg" but, if you love music, you should. Eric was certainly best known for creating one of the biggest [...]
March 2, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
03/1/2020
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We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But [...]
Elvis Presley
02/29/2020
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Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake. In October of 1994 we shot a 60th birthday tribute to Elvis Presley for [...]
Elvis Presley
02/28/2020
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No, I never met The King but I did work on a TV show dedicated to him.
Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake. In [...]
Joseph Shabalala
02/11/2020
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Sad news out of South Africa today with the passing of Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. After getting my diploma from Harmolodic High School, I [...]
Ginger Baker
10/6/2019
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“Mitch, this is Ginger Baker.” It’s April 7, 1987 and we are at the Cafe Central in Cologne, West Germany. I am on the road with Ronald [...]
2019.05.13 Arturo O’Farrill on Steely Dan
05/13/2019
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Rebroadcast January 11, 2021.
Arturo O'Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in [...]
Carnegie Hall Salutes The Jazz Masters
04/12/2019
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This show, 25 years ago this month, marked the start of my career in TV. I knocked myself out for this program, working on it exclusively for 5 months. A very [...]
Tortilla Flats
10/22/2018
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Can't you tell she just won Bingo at Tortilla Flats? I would say that I've been going to this joint for 35 years but that would be a lie. The truth is that we [...]
Lorraine Gordon
06/10/2018
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Sad to hear of the passing of Lorraine Gordon, proprietor of the greatest Jazz club in the world, the Village Vanguard. Lorraine used to call me during my [...]