Murray Street Productions
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
"And he said we’ll I don’t want to play any of those 7s or 11s or 13s or
22s. I don’t want to play any of that stuff that you’re writing. He said
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"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
In the 40s, jazzmen came of age on the stages of dance halls. Pianist Barry Harris and drummer Billy Higgins capture the view from those stages.
Bought by WNCU, KFOK-LP, and Public Radio Remix
"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...
"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...
"Up until the late 80's, it was not officially forbidden, but you were always like marked: 'Ah, he's interested in jazz. He's with Western culture....
Bought by 90.5 WSNC and Public Radio Remix
“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
"I was brought up in small farm of my grandfather, and in the city. And My father was…working class. My father was working, my mother was working...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
"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...
"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
"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...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
“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...
"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
“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
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 90.5 WSNC and Public Radio Remix
“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
"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 90.5 WSNC, WNCU, and KFOK-LP
“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
"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 90.5 WSNC, WNCU, and KFOK-LP