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Sonny Rollins: Audio Interview with Ira Gitler & Music Students, 3 of 3
On April 26, 1994, jazz journalist and historian Ira Gitler interviewed Sonny Rollins before an audience of student and faculty musicians at the…
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Sonny Rollins: Audio Interview with Ira Gitler, 2 of 3, plus an Article for All
On April 26, 1994, jazz journalist and historian Ira Gitler interviewed Sonny Rollins before an audience of student and faculty musicians at the…
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Sonny Rollins: Audio Interview with Ira Gitler About Ike Day & More, 1 of 3
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Wes Montgomery: Unheard 18-minute Audio Interview with Ira Gitler, + Bonus
(Paying Subscribers, at the very bottom you’ll get the full Gitler piece on Wes, and the entire guitar issue of Downbeat with stories about Mingus and…
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Ira Gitler talks About Drums with Tony Williams, Art Blakey,Cozy Cole, & Mel Lewis,AUDIO!; Part 4 (Last)
Part 1 of this four-part audio discussion is here. You will also find there the printed article that was taken partly from this discussion, as well as…
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Ira Gitler talks About Drums with Tony Williams, Art Blakey,Cozy Cole, & Mel Lewis,AUDIO!;Part 2, +Bonus
(Paying subscribers, your bonus is at the bottom as usual.)
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Ira Gitler talks About Drums with Tony Williams, Art Blakey,Cozy Cole, & Mel Lewis,AUDIO!;Part 1
The late Ira Gitler (1928-2019) was one of the foremost jazz critics and historians.
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