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Interviews with notable New Orleans musicians - Jonathan Freilich Presents

This podcast will feature interviews done by Jonathan Freilich with notable figures that relate in some way to the current vibrancy of the New Orleans music scene and community. It seeks to form a dialogue between ideas and motivations behind the music and the relationship of those ideas to the sound artifact being presented. The podcast will also address what the state of understanding is in audiences and whether understanding is relevant to the "success" of the musical artwork. Older

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Interview with Tim Green pt.3

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2011/07/29

Part 3- what music was being played in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the late 70's; picking up first work in New Orleans; pressure to take up tenor and playing with Irma Thomas; when his career direction started to emerge; Gulfstream, The Stick Band and work in other little groups; Kalaamu Ya Salaam suggests Tim to Ellis Marsalis; comparisons between past and present audiences and the acceptance of original music; car and piano restoration, the value of self-reliance. Tim Green Interview pt.3

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Interview with Tim Green, Part 2

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2011/07/26

Part 2- Musicians' awareness of the importance of heir own work; when the decision to come to New Orleans was made; the pain associated with learning an instrument and the desire and drive to get past that; beginnings in playing music with others; desire for formal studies and starting at Berklee, 1978; problems with Berklee; meeting the 'passport' to New Orleans; serendipitouswinning of trophy at the St. Patrick's Day parade in the French Quarter; deep lessons for a negligent saxophone teacher.Tim

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Interview with saxophonist, Tim Green Part 1

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2011/07/26

Tim Green is one of the most interesting saxophonists that you can hear in New Orleans. Occasinally he travels but most of his career has been within the city. Over the years he has played with many of the greats that people associate most with the city- Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Irma Thomas, Cyrille Neville, Mem Shannon and many legendary others. His affection goes out most to original, creative, music projects. He is interested in so much music and has brought himself to a place where he can

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Interview with songwriter, Luke Allen, of The Happy...

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2011/07/16

Luke Allen is the leader of an interesting local New Orleans group, The Happy Talk Band. He writes in a style unlike anyone else in town. He has a generous, though un-imposing, personality and this comes through well in his songs. In this conversation he explains a lot of where he came from and uncovers some connections between his life travels and New Orleans residency and how those things impact his songwriting. The interview was conducted where he felt at home, Markey's Bar in the Bywater. There

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Interview with songwriter, Luke Allen, of The Happy...

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2011/07/16

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Interview with Hart Mcnee- Flautist/Saxophonist

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2011/07/10

Hart Mcnee was a very interesting local musical figure. He died a couple of years ago but while alive he left quite a mark on all of us, friends, family or musical comrades. He was from Chicago originally but he had moved at a fairly young age to San Francisco. Initially he was staying with his friend, the iconic guitarist Mike Bloomfield (an early hero of this site's author.) Hart played all over the San Francisco blues scene primarily on baritone sax but especially known was his stint with Boz

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Follow up interview Pt.2- with Piety St. Studios...

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2011/06/24

Part 2- How Piety St Studios started; paradox of a successful studio starting in 2001;...still using analog; how the studio gained wide renown; Cash Money; Vida Blue; changes in musical styles since the Boiler Room- collage/mashup/jazz; Kidd Jordan; about offending people with music; Lukas Ligeti; bringing the spirit world in; John Swenson's book; transcending style; unspoken, secret language amongst musicians; changes in new orleans culture; the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's problems

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Follow up interview Pt.1- with Piety St. Studios...

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2011/06/23

Here is a second, concluding interview with a big contributor the current face of New Orleans music. Mark is a good talker and pretty free with colorful stories about artists and the machine that keeps them "out there." This talk has quite a different flavor from the first interview. Part 1- Initial move to New Orleans; meeting and doing work with WWOZ; acquiring studio gear for New Orleans; first studio recordings:John Cleary, Bunchy, Mike Ward, Amadee Castanell, John Mooney; how the Boiler Room

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A second interview with composer, Dr. James P. Walsh...

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2011/06/12

Part 5- What to do with all this information and experiences from training and Columbia experience- COMPOSE!; Ricard Strauss; derivation of hyper regions from hyper-tonalityand movements of the tone row; Pat Carpenter's observations on those discoveries, new problems and the re-insertion of feeling and emotion; conflicts of aims that arose at Columbia- Musicology or Composition; Walsh's approach to teaching composition and how that differs from Columbia; helping to realize students' wildest creative

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A second interview with composer, Dr. James P. Walsh...

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2011/06/11

Part 4- Mario Davidovsky; Importance of performance of compositions to Walsh, Monod, Schoenberg; Art and money and religion; music for your 'tribe' and academic music; power of suggestion over the listeners appreciation of aesthetic experience; societal viewpoints on institutionally taught composers as opposed to self-taught; prize winning fugues from the Paris Conservatory; the fragmented schools of academic music; are Coherence Creating Scenarios a fiction?; hair-brained, crackpot, music theories;

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A second interview with composer, Dr. James P. Walsh...

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2011/06/11

Part 3- Influence of music pedagogy on music practice; music architecture manuals; historical roadblocks caused by building permanent monuments to yourself; more on Pat Carpenter; How Schoenberg's music was disseminated despite unpopularity; the problem with style designators; organic unity as the way artists think; Pat Carpenter directing Walsh to Monod; changes in music atmosphere at Columbia through electronic music; The malibu Dolphins and being back in the New York punk scene; Willie Bobo Shaw;

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A second interview with composer, Dr. James P. Walsh...

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2011/06/01

Part 2- Who is Jacques-Louis Monod?; Anti-semitism at Julliard?; Fixed "Do", moveable clefs and the advantages in score reading; music in the middle-ages, iso-rhythmic motets, and music where intellect was valued; rejection of comparative literature; how musical pieces are true compared to fiction which is false; truth and falsity in music; fake and real in Treme- depicting yourself; encounter with Pat Carpenter and form and analysis; organic unity, grund gestalt, and how the composer "thinks" the

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A second interview with composer, Dr. James P. Walsh

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2011/05/30

This interview continues whereWalsh'slast interviewleft off. See below for other introductory information. Here Jimbo goes deeply into the later experiences that formed his ideas and paints some prtraits of some rather large musical figures that he has been around over the years. Part 1- Starting Columbia and the tough undergraduate music program there at that time; loving the challenge of it; the shock of studies with Edward Lippman; Jacques Louis Monod; the influence of Paul Henry Lang on the

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A conversation on the current New Orleans music scene...

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2011/05/29

WWOZ radio DJ,Michael Dominicihad the idea to take some of what has been happening in these interviews and take it onto WWOZ during his radio show. There were time constraints that didn't allow us, with our summer schedules, to do this live so we pre-recorded it on May 28th,2011.Mark Binghamallowed us to do the interview atPiety St. Studiosso we sat down for about an hour and discussed a few things pertaining to recording, time perception, thinking of music for now, anachronistic music, and

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Interview with composer/ Open Ears Music Series...

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2011/05/28

Jeff Albert is more than a musician. Like a few others interviewed here he has contributed to the New Orleans music scene through the Tuesday Open Ears series at the Blue Nile. The series allows an open forum for a wide variety of musical performance. It is a rare night where one can witness any sort of musical exploration. Throughimproving the breadth of what is presented he has contributed to the formation of musical groups and associations of musicians that otherwise would not have a place to

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Interview with trombonist/ electronic composer, Jeff...

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2011/05/28

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Interview with trombonist/ composer Jeff Albert Part 3

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2011/05/28

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Interview with Jeff Albert, Trombonist and curator of...

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2011/05/27

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Interview with Jeff Albert, Trombonist and curator of...

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2011/05/27

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Interview with Rex Gregory pt. 4

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2011/05/24

Rex Gregory is an extremely talented, but also very disciplined, instrumentalist. He plays with a wide variety of people around town in a number of styles, many of them not fixed genres. Part of this comes from a great talent for getting with the "conversational" style that emerges when groups of players get together to improvise. Basically, he's quick! He's also young (27.) He plays flute, all the saxes, and clarinet and last year he released his first album as a leader,An End To Oblivion. He is

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