Murray Street Productions

GroupAccount image

For more than two decades, Murray Street has built a reputation for innovation – in radio production, marketing, and distribution. We specialize in work with cultural institutions to create distinctive programs for broadcast, recorded media and the Internet.

Pieces

Piece image
"You’ve got this reservoir of ideas are roaming around in your brain and you want to put them down on paper and pass those out to the trumpet playe...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:14:37
Piece image
"In San Francisco…I had a jazz group of my own... and I went to a beer bar on Vallejo Street. And I said I want to really get my band in here. I ca...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:13:06
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:15:31
Piece image
“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:29
Piece image
“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 00:12:15
Caption: Wynton Marsalis
"For me I always grew up watching my father and other jazz musicians, they never played for that many people, they were always struggling. They did...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and WEKU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:18:54
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
“And then we used to play hockey in the street, roller skate hockey. So while I was up there playing roller skate hockey I was moving my feet aroun...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:13:21
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote d...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jose James
“Music was unexpected. I always wanted to be a writer and I still do. I was always turned on by words, by the way people could use words and that k...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
"I was on my way to being a decent bass player, and at that time there were a lot of clubs in New York, a lot of recordings going on....talking to ...

Bought by WNCU and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Roy Haynes
“I got these small 20 inch bass drums. One of the first 20 inch bass drums…So when Lester Young saw these small little drums, right away he nicknam...

Bought by KTRL, WNCU, and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:10
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...

Bought by WNCU and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams - Monterey Jazz Fest., 1971, Credit: Paul Slaughter Photos
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...

Bought by WNCU and KFOK-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:10:02
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Since the 1960s, writer and producer Nat Hentoff has confronted the question "Is jazz black music.' He discusses the issue in a 2008 conversation w...

Bought by WNCU and KFOK-LP


  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:31
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Brazilian musicians Duduka Da Fonseca, Helio Alves, and Maucha Adnet discuss Samba Jazz and the Bossa Nova.

Bought by WNCU and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:09
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Billy Taylor played with the best in the business. But his contributions to jazz went far beyond the bandstand.

Bought by WNCU and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:46
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Bobby McFerrin has spent four decades breaking ground in jazz vocals – and his music always feels fresh. Hear how Miles Davis changed his life.

Bought by WNCU, KFOK-LP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dianne Reeves
"I don't ever want you to open for me again" said Sarah Vaughan. The diva was paying her a compliment, but the modest Dianne Reeves didn't' know that.

Bought by WNCU, KFOK-LP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Lee Konitz , Credit: Frank Stewart
Widely admired for his original sound, the 83 year old alto saxophonist Lee Konitz is a master of improvisation who continues to travel the world s...

Bought by WNCU, KFOK-LP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:01
  • Purchases: 3