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Billy Taylor: My Memories of Him,1—On the Radio, In The Studio, A Filmed Interview, Etc.
Billy Taylor (1921-2010) was a marvelous person, and brilliant, and a topnotch jazz pianist.
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Chuck Mangione: Remembering My Teacher—and Defender!, 2 of 2 (+Bonus Audio)
(Paying Subscribers, there’s more music from the 1971 Eastman concert for you at the bottom, with my sincere thanks.)
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Chuck Mangione: Remembering My Teacher, with rare Audio, 1 of 2
Chuck Mangione (born in 1940 in Rochester, N.Y.) earned his Bachelor’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1963, and he returned there as a faculty…
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Paul Simon: My Surprising Story About Him And Charles Hamm (+Bonus);+ NEW POSTSCRIPT!
See the new postscript at the bottom—very short and very funny!
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My Memory of Dr. Charles Kelman, Cataract Surgery Pioneer—and Saxophonist!
It must have been about 1981 or 1982, during my years as a music professor at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, that I got a call from one of…
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Ornette Coleman: My Memories of Him, 2—A Day at Brandeis University, 1985
In the previous essay (see the Index), I told you about the first time I met Ornette Coleman, when I was a student at the University of Rochester in the…
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Ornette Coleman: My Memories of Him, 1—University of Rochester, 1971
I once heard Denardo, Ornette Coleman’s drummer son, say that his father made everybody feel like they were a close friend of his.
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Beastie Boys: I Was Asked to Be Their "Expert Witness"
In the Introduction to these essays, I mentioned that sometimes I might post an essay that’s not about jazz.
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Coleman Hawkins Tribute: My Second Memory of the Village Vanguard (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, a lesser-known audio interview with Hawkins is your gift, at the bottom.)
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Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Part 1—Background Information, and My Personal Memories
THIS IS the first of what will be a series of many detailed essays exploring the beloved album A Love Supreme. This recording is very important to me…
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Pete La Roca: He took me on my first trip to the Village Vanguard
(This is the first of what will be an occasional series about my experiences in the jazz world.)
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