 Jazz pianist and professor Randy Halberstadt tells us why he chooses tunes to play, record, and write about (click here for the interview). His highly recommended Parallel Tracks CD (left), with Jeff Johnson on bass and Gary Hobbs on drums includes the jazz standards, “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,” “Invitation,” “The Touch of Your Lips,” “Well You Needn’t,” and “Everything I Love.” You may visit his website at randyhalberstadt.com. Randy provides comments on “Just You, Just Me,” and “Mean to Me.”
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 Terry Perkins interviews lyricist, vocalist, and composer Jon Hendricks, who has inspired generations of lyricists and singers (click here for the interview).
Hendricks is noted for expanding the art of vocalese to include multiple voices singing various instrumental parts. The term “vocalese” was first used by noted jazz critic Leonard Feather in a 1959 article in Jazz: A Quarterly of American Music to describe the art of melding new lyrics to the frame of classic jazz instrumentals.
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 The National Public Radio show Piano Jazz, was hosted by famed pianist Marian McPartland. The premise of Piano Jazz was deceptively simple. McPartland welcomed a guest for each hour-long episode, they talked about music, and McPartland and the guest played music in interludes between the on-going conversations. Read Terry Perkins’ interview with McPartland.
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 Terry Perkins interviews Nancy Wilson about her National Public Radio show, Jazz Profiles. This weekly, one-hour program uses a documentary style approach to examine the lives and musical contributions of jazz legends ranging from Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington to Miles Davis, and Sonny Rollins (click here for the interview).
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