Thursday, July 23, 2015

DownBeat, July 2015 - Classic Interviews

In the recent fuss and furor over Ornette Coleman, a good many persons have been making hasty leaps for the tailgate of what might turn out to be a bandwagon. But as Ralph Gleason pointed out recently in the San Francisco Chronicle, Coleman, at the e …  
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Bob Belden’s Spanish Key
Published 3/1/2011
It’s a sunny, spring day in May in midtown Manhattan that begins a week of recording. And everybody’s waiting for Rabih. 
From the podium, the leader croons, ““I’m in the oud for love.” 
With these words of wit that typically …  
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Tommy Dorsey: Jazzman
Published 1/9/1957
Tommy Dorsey was one of jazz’s great liaisons with the outside world. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of classical musicians first learned to respect the instrumental skills of jazzmen when they listened to Tommy.
Thousands of others, musically …  
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Art Blakey: Message Received
Published 5/11/1961
Art Blakey sat on the edge of the bed in a Detroit hotel room. Dressed only in a T-shirt and shorts, his powerful arms stabbed the air with a cigarette as he talked. “Talked” is perhaps too mild of a term—Blakey seldom just “talks.” You could almost …  
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