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JazzStories: Joe Henderson
(00:14:37)
From: Murray Street Productions
"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 players, trombone players... And ...
JazzStories: Todd Barkan - Part I
(00:13:06)
From: Murray Street Productions
"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 can do fantastic promotion. ...
JazzStories: Percy Heath
(00:15:31)
From: Murray Street Productions
"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 collective sound of that moment, you ...
JazzStories: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Doug Wamble
(00:08:29)
From: Murray Street Productions
“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of some predictable routine.” ...
JazzStories: Henry Threadgill
(00:12:15)
From: Murray Street Productions
“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 this day end?”
JazzStories: Wynton Marsalis
(00:18:54)
From: Murray Street Productions
"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 didn't make any money...My ...
Jazz Tap: Stumpy Cromer and Jared Grimes
(00:13:21)
From: Murray Street Productions
“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 around and I liked the sound.“ - ...
Frank Foster
(00:07:43)
From: Murray Street Productions
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 down the notes and brought ...
JazzStories: Jose James
(00:11:59)
From: Murray Street Productions
“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 kind of power.”
JazzStories: Ron Carter
(00:08:59)
From: Murray Street Productions
"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 Sam Jones he said 'look in ...
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Piece Description
"If I had all the answers, there wouldn't be anything to ask, would there?" - Albert Einstein in Passover Dreams Fasten your seat belts and pass the chicken soup! Passover Dreams takes us from the seder table to the edge of the universe. Audio magician Jim Metzner conjures up Albert Einstein, Frederick Douglass, Lenny Bruce and host of other seder guests to plumb the depths of one of the world's oldest holidays in this Gabriel Award-winning program. The Layers of Passover's Meaning Questions are the tools that the Passover celebration offers as it urges us to dig deeper into our lives. Why is this night different from all other nights? What do we mean when we talk about the Promised Land? Peel away one layer and relive the flight with Moses from Egypt. Peel another layer and think about what that means for African Americans. Peel once more and see what it means in America today. For many people, America is the Promised Land. A Radio Seder Public Radio's veteran producer Jim Metzner (Pulse of the Planet) offers a meditation on freedom and renewal marking 350 years of Jewish Life in America. Albert Einstein joins Emma Lazarus, Frederick Douglass, two modern rabbis (Joy Levitt and Jonathan Kligler), food critic Joan Nathan, and the spirit of Lenny Bruce. Members of Ulster County's Actors & Writers, including Melissa Leo and Mikhail Horowitz, are featured with Charles Turner as Frederick Douglass. Theodore Bikel hosts the program. Jim Metzner hosts our Seder of ideas, humor and music. Featuring the Music of: Travelling Jewish Theater (Golden Gate Gypsy Orchestra) Debby Freidman, The Journey Continues Alan Lomax archive The Harder They Come A Taste of Passover (New England Conservatory) Songs of Our Fathers, Statman & Grisman Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars Brotherhood of Brass Natalie Merchant's "The House Carpenter's Daughter" Matisyahu, Shake off the Dust The Music of Pesah at BJ (B'Nai Jesurun) Sweet Honey in the Rock Muzsikas Maramaros
Broadcast History
This program has been carried on over 100 stations throughout the US during Passover 2005 and 2006.
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Review of Passover Dreams
Why is this program different from all other programs? "Passover is like theatre," says Theodore Bikel in the introduction. And producer James Meltzer has created a very theatrical meditation with this "Seder at the end of the universe," full of humor and history as it relates the tradition of celebrating a seder to the here and now. There are many surprising elements like guests such as Albert Einstein and Frederick Douglas and sharing gifts of sound. The large ensemble of voices are wonderful, the scripting excellent and the whole production polished. A joy to listen on this sunny spring morning!