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
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...
"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play
Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started
c...
Bought by WCSU-FM
"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...
"We have a mixture of many elements from the world. The classical music
from Europe- the sense of melody and deep harmonic sense- and on the other ...
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
"They name it -- they just come up with all kinds of names..."'Funk'...
'jazz' or... 'acid jazz.' Or they named it 'boogaloo.' We don't know
anyth...
Bought by WCSU-FM
"The fact is my parents lost all of their assets. If I didn't have something (I was) really into, in my case was piano and jazz, I think it would h...
"Singing lead is all about you. The focus is on you. Your name is on
the ticket. The people have paid to see you...So you are responsible for
you...
Bought by WNCU
"I felt like I had to do more in order for people to think of what they would think of another musician—about the level of intellect or artistry of...
Bought by WNCU
"Sometimes I hear jazz and it sounds like hip cats playing for other hip cats to dig instead of taking more of a chance by trying to relate to the ...
Bought by WNCU
Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...
Bought by WNCU
George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, has created countless festivals worldwide and can be connected to every important jazz musician ...
"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for
me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...
"One of the greatest joys I have had in my musical career has been providing employment for musicians, actually handing them [work]. Now I hand th...
He wasn’t political about it. He didn’t particularly talk about politics and stuff. He did it his own way. He didn’t have to talk about that. All h...
Bought by WNCU
“Essentially Ellington…really made me feel like I could be part of something bigger, musically. Meeting all these other young people from around th...
"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
b...
Bought by WNCU
"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 WNCU and 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