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Ornette Coleman: For His Birthday, Memories from Jim Eigo (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom you’ll find the earliest audio interview with Ornette, from March 1960—it’s very short, but fun to hear.) From Lewis…
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Sun Ra: An Unknown Audio Interview, 1965
Did you ever see Sun Ra in performance? It wasn’t at all the kind of super serious atmosphere that people associate with the so-called “avant garde…
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Eric Dolphy: An Unknown 1963 Audio Interview about Ornette and more
Alan Saul hosts the most extensive site about Eric Dolphy, including listings of all of his recordings and filmed or televised appearances, many audio…
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Sonny Rollins: A Short Unknown 1957 Audio Interview
We continue now our occasional series of audio interviews from the Claes Dahlgren collection. (Rollins calls him Claus by mistake.) Here is the earliest…
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Duke Ellington Talks About Racism in Unknown Short Audio Interview
One could say that Duke Ellington (1899-1974) devoted his entire career to celebrating Black people and Black life in music. But, like many Black…
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Chet Baker's Unknown First Audio Interview 1954! + Bonuses for Paying Subscribers
(Note: Paying subscribers, as usual you will find your bonuses at the very bottom—this time it’s three recordings of Chet Baker playing “Bockhanal”!) We…
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Cecil Taylor's First Recorded Interview, 1959! + Bonus
(Paying Subscribers, at the bottom of this article you will find your latest bonus!) Here is another interview conducted by our late Swedish friend…
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Miles Davis: UNKNOWN First Recorded Interview—1951! (UPDATED)
(NOTE: I ADDED some information from the Swedish archive about the date and about how these interviews were made. The new material is in the first two…
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Miles Davis: An UNKNOWN 1955 Radio Interview
Only heard in Sweden!
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