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From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
Length: 05:56
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Transcript
JIMMY OWENS_DONALD BYRD (:90)
NOW, A JAZZ MOMENT…
MUSIC: Down Tempo (Donald Byrd)
CD: The Very Best Of
Master Classics Records 2010
THERE’S A GREAT LINNEAGE OF MENTORSHIP IN JAZZ… ELDER MUSICIANS HELPING THE YOUNGER ONES LEARN WHAT’S WHAT. NEA JAZZ MASTER JIMMY OWENS REMEMBERS MEETING HIS FIRST GREAT MENTOR, TRUMPETER DONALD BYRD…
Jimmy Owens: I’d gone to the Thelonious Monk Town Hall Concert and heard him play and I said, wow, man, I’d sure like to study with that guy. And a friend that I was with says, Oh, he lives in the Bronx, right near us. I’ll take you over to his house. So about the next week he took me over to Donald’s house. And Donald asked me to play something. And I put in my mute and got into my stance and played something. And he says, What is all that about? You know? (laughs) Why you standin like that? And why do you have to have the mute in the...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Down Tempo | Donald Byrd | The Very Best of Donald Byrd . | Master Classics Records | 2010 | 00:00 |
| Reflections | Jimmy Owens | The Monk Project. | IPO Recordings | 2011 | 00:00 |
| Bright Mississippi | Jimmy Owens | The Monk Project . | IPO Recordings | 2011 | 00:00 |
| Blue Monk | Jimmy Owens | The Monk Project . | IPO Recordings | 2011 | 00:00 |
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