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Benny Golson - Conversation with Benny Golson
For more than fifty years, Benny Golson has made scores of recordings and composed and arranged for such artists as Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie. A prolific and renowned composer, he has written such widely-known standards for the jazz repertoire as "Killer Joe" (popularized in a hit recording by Quincy Jones), "I Remember Clifford" (set to choreography in 1995 by Twyla Tharp and performed by her company), "Stablemates," "Whisper Not," "Blues March," "Five Spot After Dark," and "Are you Real?". Golson's prolific writing career also includes scores for hit TV series and films, including M*A*S*H; the theme of Bill Cosby's last show; as well as Mannix, Mission Impossible, Mod Squad, Room 222, the Academy Awards, and specials for ABC, CBS and NBC networks, and the BBC. He has also written national radio and television spots for major American advertising agencies. Born in Philadelphia in 1929, Golson played in the bands of Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and Earl Bostic. His also served as Music Director with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and co-led Jazztet with flugelhornist Art Farmer; both ensembles were milestones of the late Hard Bop period. Golson's honors are many; he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1995 and received the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award in 1996. He has received honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and William Patterson College. In 1999 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his performance of "Body and Soul" on his CD Tenor Legacy. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.
Audio|Thu, 6 Nov 2008|More from WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast
|Charlie Parkerfound at5:56, 1:04:22
“…to do things that less passed their time. Case in point incumbent. Charlie Parker John Coltrane on take them. Their own but the musically goes wrong. …”
“…Did you ever play with Charlie Parker and it's not could you say something about his performance as you might have heard. …”
Emmett Price III - From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond
Musician and educator Emmett Price III examines the connections between jazz, hip hop and other music forms. Price discusses the importance of music as a means of communication and its capacity to bridge generational and other interpersonal gaps. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.
Audio|Wed, 9 Jul 2008|More from WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast
|Charlie Parkerfound at1:18:08
“…an adult stuff. You know people tell the stories of you know Charlie Parker's you know -- SE and narcotics addiction. Some of the musicians who actually him out of money and profited and nice cars. …”
The “open source” composer: David Amram
David Amram learned his "many musics" from Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Kerouac and Bach. His spirit is neither "multicultural" nor eclectic, but "lovingly trying to learn the fundamentals... of beautiful things that touch your heart."
Audio|Wed, 30 Apr 2008|More from Open Source
|Charlie Parkerfound at7:30, 9:57
“…I wrote the giants of the night first moving in memory of Charlie Parker limit 1952. Second for -- and that 56 in the third four. Do you see who have to -- let's do it …”
“…be more than the other it's -- never been about that. And Charlie Parker was -- person told to listen to music of Friedrich Julius. Disease -- the home late 1951 when he crashed in my …”
Here and Now for Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Delta and Northwest Airlines have proposed a merger that would create the world's largest airline. Rising fuel prices and a sputtering economy are forcing the airlines to join forces. The new combined company would be called Delta, have a value of $17.7 billion and be based in Atlanta. To find out what the merger means for the industry and travellers, we speak to Micheline Maynard, business reporter for the New York Times. Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Washington today. Jay Tolson, senior writer for US News and World Report, previews the visit. Texas child protection officials have moved 416 children to new locations, separating some from their mothers, ahead of a court hearing to determine if the children taken from a polygamist sect ranch should remain in state custody. We speak with Houston Chronicle reporter Terri Langford and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. With an increasing number of girls playing sports, physicians are reporting a huge in
Audio|Tue, 15 Apr 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now Podcast
|Charlie Parkerfound at37:49
“…stuff by the big -- France. Then when we come to accept Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis Ornette Coleman seems out of back. …”
Eric Jackson - Duke Ellington Round Table
Eric Jackson discusses Duke Ellington's A Sacred Concert with a panel on Winthrop, MA community access television. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
Audio|Wed, 16 Jan 2008|More from WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain
|Charlie Parkerfound at30:41
“…Eric but my loved them with company -- and -- And Charlie parker and up because became -- Bob Bob almost by the way -- country music -- I grew up literally cup and -- …”
Here and Now for Monday, December 31, 2007
The latest from Pakistan where it appears the country's election commission is going to delay next week's elections in the aftermath of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. We speak with Jonathan Landay, a reporter for McClatchey Newspapers in Karachi, Pakistan. Cathryn Jakobsen Ramin was a hard-hitting journalist whose memory began slipping in her 40's. She turned herself into a human guinea pig embarking on a three-year journey that took her to sleep clinics, neuropsychologists and other medical experts. She chronicles her attempts to uncover the source of her memory loss in her book: "Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife." Iowans supporting Democratic presidential candidates won't just show up at a polling place this Thursday and use a voting machine to cast their vote. They stand in corners for candidates, there's a crazy math equation to determine how much support a candidate has; then caucus-goers may choose to stand in anot
Audio|Mon, 31 Dec 2007|More from WBUR: Here and Now
|Charlie Parkerfound at40:07
“…people he played lead over his prolific career Louie Armstrong count DC Charlie parker Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald. And duke Ellington who said Peterson was the Maharashtra of the keyboard. He played according to …”
At Home with Harold Bloom: (3) The Jazz Bridge
Harold Bloom is a jazz buff as well as a poetry critic, for whom Walt Whitman and Louis Armstrong are the matched twin towers of American culture so far.
Audio|Fri, 21 Dec 2007|More from Open Source
|Charlie Parkerfound at12:54, 20:47
“…it. You hear -- I'm sure you remember this on the recording Charlie parker saying. And oh. I gave you my -- big constituents. Mr. Dizzy Gillespie singing and playing his inimitable salt peanuts and then …”
“…end a Walt Whitman and after him Armstrong and Janice Armstrong Ellington. Charlie parker of Apollo Mingus what you will I have to choose between the two ultimately. I wouldn't I would say I would say …”
The Harold Bloom Tapes (Part 3)
In the summer of 2003, around the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, I spent an afternoon with the Sage of New Haven, Professor Harold Bloom of Yale, in conversation around the Sage of Concord. Bloom had been a critical figure in the revival of interest in Emerson, the "father of the American Religion," Bloom has called him. But what also emerges here, with some gentle prodding from your humble interviewer, is that Bloom's attachment to Emerson is vitally and intimately personal. Bloom discovered the power of the bond in what he says was the most severe depression of his life -- a period in his mid-late thirties in the mid-late Sixties, when he read and reread Emerson's essays and especially his journals, with the avidity for which Bloom is famous. What he discovered was that Emerson spoke with Bloom's own inner voice, as "the god within," he said. These conversations are, among other things, a lesson in how to take a magisterial writer to heart, as a contemporary and something more than a best friend.
Audio|Thu, 8 Nov 2007|More from Open Source
|Charlie Parkerfound at10:07
“…young men and young women yeah -- very rare exceptions. Listen to Charlie parker did. As for the African Americans they have us this heritage completely been replaced by the sloppy -- No adjustment had been …”
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (4)
Bill Pierce played tenor saxophone for three years in into the early 80s with Art Blakey -- before that with Stevie Wonder, and with the drummer Tony Williams into the early 90s. He has the authority of a player who's also the teaching chairman of the reeds department of the Berklee College of Music in Boston -- and co-author of the Berklee Practice Method for tenor and soprano saxophone. The hallways and practice cubicles outside Bill Pierce's Berklee offices are thick with 19- and 20-year-olds who've made a desperate bet that they can approach Coltrane's sound, and pull some of his phrases together. One of those students, Russ Thallheimer, from Eureka, California, was wearing a Coltrane T-shirt when we passed through Berklee the other day. Smiling, without irony, Russ referred to Coltrane as "Dad." There are other saxophone inspirations : Russ mentioned Zoot Sims, Paul Desmond and Michael Brecker -- "he's the really cool uncle," Russ said. "But none of them do what Coltrane did. Nobody can repeat things that he did." How did it feel that John Coltrane was "back," I asked the drummer Roy Haynes a dozen years ago, when Impulse reissued his classics and Whitney Balliett in The New Yorker solemnized a Coltrane revival. "I didn't know he ever left!" Roy shot back -- all we needed to know, delivered with Haynesian snap, crackle and pop. In this 40th anniversary autumn after his death, at 40, what lives with Coltrane and his music is the idea of love's forgiveness, of redemption through suffering, and the excruciating sort of beauty that Dostoevsky thought "will save the world."
Audio|Mon, 8 Oct 2007|More from Open Source
|Charlie Parkerfound at6:10, 9:14
“…great magnitude and have great importance at duke Ellington and count -- Charlie parker if you willow and they always had these kind of people so we didn't need necessarily to see black figure that represented …”
“…try to emulate that I mean but you know course are mean Charlie parker was the same way but in the differently. Courtroom was kind of lucky one in the latest information was almost like not …”
Sonny Rollins in Conversation
Sonny Rollins, the saxophone colossus, 50 years later, and still blowing us away: not only with his music but with the amazing way he has modeled a humble life of self-improvement and learning.
Audio|Mon, 9 Apr 2007|More from PRI: Open Source
|Charlie Parkerfound at0:39, 10:28
“…re creation of jazz. With the genius generation felonious monk bud Powell Charlie parker and max roach and miles Davis. It was just young enough and carefully enough that -- of his own improvising genius to …”
“…Powell about whom I'm endlessly curious. Can you talk about but -- Charlie parker. . …”