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TaintRadio.org is broadcasting the Freilich Documentary
David Kunian, the author of the radio documentary about some of the exploits of Jonathan Freilich, has requested that you be notified about the airing of the show. It's a rare showing...
PROGRAM NOTE: JONATHAN FRELICH DOCUMENTARY ON taintradio.org
taintradio.org proudly presents producer David Kunian’s excellent documentary, Jonathan Freilich’s Double-O Naked Klezmer Jazz Latin Boogaloo, an hour-long radio documentary about guitarist, composer and bandleader Jonathan Freilich. Freilich founded The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, the jazz bands Naked on the Floor and avant-garde big band The Naked Orchestra, the rock-steady ska band 007, and the rhythm and blues band Poor Man’s Speedball.
Freilich has been the essence of the working and creative musician in New Orleans. The program explores what this is like and how he accomplishes his goals and ideas. It includes interviews with Freilich, selections from his music, and recollections and interviews from the people who know him and work with him including musicians Stanton Moore, Joe Cabral, Alex McMurray, Ben Ellman, Glen Hartmann, Kevin O’Day, Tim Green, James Singleton, Jeff Albert, Drs. James Walsh and Janna Saslaw, filmmaker Henry Griffin, and producers Mark Bingham and Benjamin Lyons.
The program is narrated and produced by
PROGRAM NOTE: JONATHAN FRELICH DOCUMENTARY ON taintradio.org
taintradio.org proudly presents producer David Kunian’s excellent documentary, Jonathan Freilich’s Double-O Naked Klezmer Jazz Latin Boogaloo, an hour-long radio documentary about guitarist, composer and bandleader Jonathan Freilich. Freilich founded The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, the jazz bands Naked on the Floor and avant-garde big band The Naked Orchestra, the rock-steady ska band 007, and the rhythm and blues band Poor Man’s Speedball.
Freilich has been the essence of the working and creative musician in New Orleans. The program explores what this is like and how he accomplishes his goals and ideas. It includes interviews with Freilich, selections from his music, and recollections and interviews from the people who know him and work with him including musicians Stanton Moore, Joe Cabral, Alex McMurray, Ben Ellman, Glen Hartmann, Kevin O’Day, Tim Green, James Singleton, Jeff Albert, Drs. James Walsh and Janna Saslaw, filmmaker Henry Griffin, and producers Mark Bingham and Benjamin Lyons.
The program is narrated and produced by
3 shows with the original 007 in mid July
The first is July18th at Bacchanal, New Orleans. Rocksteady. Yes, Jeffrey Clemens is coming in for these.
The Rex Gregory interview audio has been improved
Apologies to any listeners who had trouble hearing the Rex Gregory interview because of poor audio. Patrick McCurry who was a resident of New Orleans and is enthusiastic about the content of some of the interviews has kindly taken the time to bump up the sound quality on those. Take a fresh listen...
Follow up Interview with Piety St. Studios founder/engineer/producer/musician/composer, Mark Bingham
Check out the concluding, second interview with Mr. Mark Bingham, a large contributor to the current face of New Orleans music. Sometimes how he contributes is less than obvious. Find out here, on the music interviews page, and get a lot of other juicy stories on music and the less-than-slick machine that keeps it "out there."
Reflections on Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project show- Flynn Theater, Friday June 3rd, 2011
It’s been over a week since the first concert I saw at the Discover Jazz festival (Burlington, VT) and, aside from being generally busy, there was so much new music and performance information that Hancock put out on that evening, that it seemed wiser to let the sensations percolate through thought and emotion for a while before sitting to reflect on the show in writing.
In fact, I only saw the second set but, on my way in to the theater I heard many on their way out exclaiming how amazing the show was, or seeming pleased that he had played so many old favorites. They were clearly leaving midway though, in droves.
Something about this seemed strange since one of the reasons that folks attend his music is that he is a recognized musical “genius.” That’s not really genius status by association or history, it comes from a track record of blowing peoples stodgy, musical perception, doors off the dirty hinges of their expectations. His abilities to use music as a vast nuanced system of self expression, as well as it’s uses as a vehicle for voicing the intentions or identities of cultural movements, seem beyond question at this point. In fact, most who are looking for these “hits” can’t stop muttering on at the same time about...
Music-Poetry?Music-Poetry!Music...Poetry...Music...
"All poetry comes into being in respect to its sounds, tormented into perfection or near-perfection by the logical and prosaic resistance of language in response to the disturbance of occasion."- Mary Kinzie from A Poet's Guide to Poetry
It could just as easily be about music with a couple of noun re-arrangements.