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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
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Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology
This presentation delivers a first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three-person submersible, Alvin. Meditating on the sounds rather that the sights of the dive, Helmreich explores multiple meanings of immersion: as a descent into liquid, an absorption in activity, and the all-encompassing entry of an anthropologist into a cultural medium. Tuning in to the rhythms of Alvin as a submarine cyborg, he shows how interior and exterior soundscapes create a sense of immersion, and he argues that torquing media theory to include water as a medium can make explicit the technical structures and social practices of sounding, hearing, and listening that support senses -- scientific, everyday, and anthropological -- of embodied sonic presence. Stefan Helmreich is an anthropologist who studies life scientists, from those who engage in the computer modeling of living things ( Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World , University of California Press, 1998) to those who work in deep-sea environments ( Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas , University of California Press, 2009). He is particularly interested in the limits of "life" as an analytical category for contemporary biology
Audio|Tue, 7 Oct 2008|More from CMS Colloquia Podcast
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“…state of the art sound systems for John -- as Jeff. Back Sonny Rollins Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. By the 1970s. Recording studios themselves have become places that were standardized they become -- a signal …”
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
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“…the great musicians -- so many of us Revere the miles davis'. Sonny Rollins John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett. Natalie these individuals but the styles they were playing weren't even on the table for consideration at …”
Here and Now for Friday, March 14, 2008
INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT: In another rollback of Watergate-era government reforms, President Bush has issued an executive order that strips the Intelligence Oversight Board of much of its duties in keeping an eye on illegal activities by spies. We speak with Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage. HATS AND EYEGLASSES: Though she grew up around gambling, Martha Frankel, was largely immune from its lure, until she was in her mid-forties and discovered poker. When she found out she could play the game online, what had been fun turned into an addiction. She tells her story in the book : "Hats and Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling". LIEBER'S CODE: It was the first general code of war time conduct, and it influenced others, including the Geneva Convention. It was commissioned by a Union general in 1862 to help figure out how to deal with Southern insurgents who were mounting hit and run attacks on Northern forces only to melt back into civilian life. The writer? A Gatsby-like,
Audio|Fri, 14 Mar 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now
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“…and 33 years. He's armed group often played with other jazz greats Sonny Rollins Charlie Haden Ornette Coleman breast milk now. Winning seventeen grammys along the way his latest CD is a trio record -- the …”
“…if your saxophone player and you play trio. You immediately think about Sonny Rollins and those great -- and guard records or -- trios. And actually those are the same tree is for me that are …”
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
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Here and Now for Thursday, October 11, 2007
News reports say Marine Corps generals are pushing to redeploy their troops in Iraq to Afghanistan. The Marines are currently fighting in the Anbar province of Iraq, but as that area cools down, the Marines are eager to get into the fight in Afghanistan. We look at what a possible troop shift would mean. Our guest is Tony Perry of the Los Angeles Times. Retired Army General Barry McCaffrey shares his opinions on a wide range of issues, including the war in Iraq, the future for North Korea and Cuba, and the national security challenges the next president will face. McCaffrey teaches at West Point and is a military analyst for NBC News. We speak with Don Shinammon, the police chief in Holly Hill, Florida about why he wants to use small, unmanned aircraft to help keep his community safe. With the Nobel Peace Prize due to be announced tomorrow, we take a look behind the curtain to see how the selections are made. Our guest is Alister Doyle in Oslo, Norway. He's the Environmen
Audio|Thu, 11 Oct 2007|More from WBUR: Here and Now
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“…She's standing with Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie won a Tony for her performance of -- the good -- in broadway's the winds. Then Dee Dee Bridgewater …”
Speaking of Coltrane: Five Conversations (3)
Alain Pacowski is a French-born, French-accented jazz guitarist, who grew up in Biarritz, the son of a professional horn player, hearing jazz as the sound of America. He is, as I've said before, the most flattering of distant mirrors on our culture, and an obsessive devote of John Coltrane in particular. His taste is for that broad streak of gorgeousness in Coltrane, starting with "Bye Bye Blackbird" and culminating in his solo recording of "Lush Life." 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
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“…all the other guys obsessions with. Charlie parkers say you know with Sonny Rollins who going back to Louis Armstrong what made the cold train obsession different. …”
Ishmael Beah: Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah was 12 when the civil war erupted in Sierra Leone. At 13 he was orphaned, high on drugs, wielding an AK-47 for the army. Now 26, he's written the story of losing his humanity and finding a new life after war.
Audio|Wed, 9 May 2007|More from PRI: Open Source
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“…we did Camille paglia because if you. And you told us that sonny Rollins was coming to town you can read the whole list on our site. But we're more interested in the future point desk …”
Entertaining Violence
Entertaining Violence. From gladiators to Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and boxing to "24," what combination of voyeurism and catharsis, fantasy and blood lust makes the spectacle of violence such a perennial thrill?
Audio|Wed, 18 Apr 2007|More from PRI: Open Source
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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
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“…international I'm Christopher like this is open source. The tenor saxophone colossus sonny Rollins born in Harlem in 1930. It was just old enough to slip -- as a teenager on the post world what you …”