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Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center: Miles Davis 75th Birthday Tribute

Description: Recording from NPR's "Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center" series. Taylor celebrates trumpet player and composer Miles Davis's 75th birthday and various guests and the Billy Taylor Trio play several Jazz tunes in front of a live audience. Also included are NPR promotional spots from the original program.
Date: 2001
Duration: 52 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 & Owens, Timothy Gene
Location: 38.895848 -77.055683
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Al McKibbon

Description: Interview with Al McKibbon on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. McKibbon discusses Gillespie's overall contributions in the context of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge before him, the use of the bass in "A Night in Tunisia," melodic bassists including Jimmy Blanton and Oscar Pettiford, other bassists McKibbon admired (Wellman Braud, Walter Page), how Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Pettiford changed the use of the bass, hearing Gillespie on Detroit radio, "Two-Bass Hit" and "One-Bass Hit," whether he pla… more
Date: June 28, 1992
Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: McKibbon, Al
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Jackie McLean

Description: Interview with Jackie McLean by Eugene Holley, primarily on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. McLean describes his musical background, hearing Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins as a youth before starting to play, and hearing Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in Billy Eckstine's band, how bebop made him want to play the saxophone seriously and stay on alto sax, working in his father's record shop, the contributions of Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie to… more
Date: June 10, 1992
Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene & McLean, Jackie
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Harry "Sweets" Edison

Description: Tim Owens interviews Harry "Sweets" Edison in conjunction with the Monterey Jazz Festival. Edison discusses what he has enjoyed at the festival (the quality of the youth band) and how he looks forward to a concert with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, and Roy Eldridge, all of whom he did a recording session with for Norman Granz the preceding Friday. Edison notes he has known Clark Terry since he was in St. Louis, and discusses their respective tenures in the Basie band, his own influences (partic… more
Date: September 21, 1974
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Owens, Timothy Gene & Edison, Harry, 1915-1999
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Buddy Collette, Part 2

Description: Part 2 of an undated interview with Buddy Collette. The Collette interview is only 14:52 of the recording, the rest of which is a different NPR program, "Rise of the Standup" on American Comedy from Cylinder to CD, hosted by David Osmond. Collette discusses Charles Mingus, how jazz writer Pat Willard got Mingus to do Gerald Wilson's show, how Mingus and Wilson never got along too well, Mingus' declining health and unknown reasons at the time, going to see Mingus in Cuernavaca, Mexico right afte… more
Date: 19XX
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Buddy Collette, Part 1

Description: Part 1 of an undated interview with Buddy Collette. The recording is interspersed with interludes of Collette playing solo saxophone, flute, clarinet, and bass clarinet, and begins with Collette playing the flute. Collette discusses how playing can set his day in motion, how good music is for him, how he first met Charles Mingus, Mingus' trio with his sisters Grace and Vivian with Mingus on cello, what Mingus was like as a teenager, Collette and Mingus' both shining shoes for money, Mingus' unu… more
Date: 19XX
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Clark Terry

Description: Interview with Clark Terry. Terry discusses how he first got into music, how his older sister was married to a jazz musician and seeing their band, the trumpet player in that band owning a candy store and having candy he liked, being "glad it wasn't the banjo player," playing a makeshift trumpet with a hosepipe and funnel, putting a crystal radio set in a mixing bowl to amplify it, the neighbors chipping in $12.50 to buy him a real trumpet from a pawn shop, other makeshift instruments, getting … more
Date: 1998~
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Tarnow, David & Terry, Clark
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Max Roach

Description: Fred Bourque interviews Max Roach. This recording begins in the middle of the interview and continues to the end at 14:45. It is followed by the studio recording of "Daahoud" at 15:04, and the interview resumes from an earlier point at 19:22. The sound drops out a few times, and after a drop at 26:26, the interview resumes and repeats the contents from the beginning of the recording. From the beginning of the recording, Roach discusses West Coast jazz players, such as Chico Hamilton, and how th… more
Date: August 27, 1981
Duration: 41 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Bourque, Fred & Roach, Max, 1924-2007
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with Art Farmer and James Moody

Description: Separate interviews with Art Farmer and James Moody. Fred Bourque interviewed Art Farmer in Nice, France, on July 17, while Paul Conley is the likely interviewer for James Moody in an undated interview. The interview with James Moody was discovered on the recording after digitization. The recording is heavily edited with frequent pauses of about 10 seconds and occasionally longer ones. The Art Farmer interview appears first, followed by Moody between 20:09 to 35:58, and then Farmer again, but f… more
Date: July 17, 1981
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Bourque, Fred; Conley, Paul; Farmer, Art & Moody, James, 1925-2010
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Shelly Manne

Description: Interview with Shelly Manne. Manne discusses the time he spent in Los Angeles prior to settling there and Hollywood at the time, his wife (a former Rockette) joining him when he went on the road with Stan Kenton, his wife's love of horses, the availability of work for her, and the suitability of Southern California, what he found dissatisfying in New York, Sunday jam sessions run by Herbie Harper at Showtime club on Sepulveda Boulevard, Chet Baker and Cal Tjader at Showtime, the Lighthouse and … more
Date: August 31, 1981
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Thornbury, Will, 1920-1992 & Manne, Shelly
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Wynton Marsalis

Description: Interview with Wynton Marsalis, primarily on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. Marsalis discusses Gillespie's unique musical attributes, his evolution in the context of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, his humor and versatility, Afro-Cuban jazz, Duke Ellington's "Afro-Bossa," great solos by Dizzy Gillespie ("I Can't Get Started with You"; "A Night in Tunisia" on An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet), Duke Ellington's UMMG (Upper Manhattan Medical Group), how he characterizes … more
Date: May 4, 1992
Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with John Lewis and Terence Blanchard

Description: Separate interviews with John Lewis and Terence Blanchard on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not directly identified on the label or on the recording, but Blanchard addresses "Eugene," likely Eugene Holley. This recording contains occasional extended silences, including one from 0:05 to 0:40. Lewis discusses Dizzy Gillespie's impact in making virtuosity on trumpet a rule rather than an exception, becoming aware of Gillespie while serving in the U.S. Army via V-Disc recording… more
Date: 1992
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Lewis, John, 1920-2001 & Blanchard, Terence
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Phil Schaap interviews Dizzy Gillespie, Part 2

Description: Part 2 of Phil Schaap's interview with Dizzy Gillespie as part of a festival of Dizzy Gillespie on WKCR 89.9. Bob Redcross is present, along with someone identified by the first name of Derek. Jimmy Heath is also present. The recording continues the previous tape, and begins with the end Oo Pa Pa Da at Salle Pleyel on February 28, 1948. Schaap asks Gillespie about a story that the word "bebop" was coined from a tune played at the Onyx club when a reviewer asked what the music was and thought th… more
Date: May 19, 1987
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Schaap, Phil & Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, and Claudio Roditi

Description: Separate interviews with James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, and Claudio Roditi on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The exact correspondence of individual interviews and dates is not certain. The interviewer's questions are barely audible on the James Moody interview. Moody discusses Gillespie's health condition at that time, Gillespie's band being the first one he played with professionally in 1946, Gillespie's advice that "everything you want to play is in the piano," the impossibility of playing eve… more
Date: 1992-06-17/1992-06-19
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Moody, James, 1925-2010; D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948- & Roditi, Claudio
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Jon Faddis, part 2

Description: The conclusion of an interview with Jon Faddis, presumably by Eugene Holley. Faddis demonstrates the development of Dizzy Gillespie's ending to A Night in Tunisia, and discusses the rhythmic influence of Roy Eldridge.
Date: 199X
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Faddis, Jon
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Ornette Coleman

Description: Interview with Ornette Coleman. Coleman discusses the variety of music styles he played in Fort Worth, playing for Joe Turner and other acts who would pass through town, Big Jay McNeely and walking the bar, Junior Walker, how Coleman started on alto saxophone and switched to tenor, A.B. Spellman's book (Four Lives in the Bebop Business), negative experiences and dissatisfaction with the Los Angeles scene, defying "East Coast" and "West Coast" labels, esteem for Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, … more
Date: September 16, 1981
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Bourque, Fred & Coleman, Ornette
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Russell Jacquet

Description: Interview with Russell Jacquet about jazz in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California. Jacquet discusses his feelings on moving to the west coast, running into Charles Mingus, Buddy Collette, and Lionel Hampton at a jam session, the activities of his brother Illinois, Earl Hines and Lionel Hampton's bands, touring on a cold bus, where the principal club activity was, Central Avenue and the Dunbar Hotel, Little Harlem in Watts and T-Bone Walker, Art Tatum at house parties, people who impressed hi… more
Date: 1981~
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Thornbury, Will, 1920-1992 & Jacquet, Russell
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Joe Farrell

Description: Interview with Joe Farrell by Fred Bourque. The interview takes place in Malibu, and the sound of waves from the beachfront occur in the background throughout. Farrell discusses who he was working with at the time, the Los Angeles jazz scene, Conte Candoli, film work with Roger Kellaway and Pat Williams, how he got into film work, rock dates, commercials and jingles, demanding gigs, life in Los Angeles, LA musicians, whether he misses New York.
Date: August 10, 1981
Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Bourque, Fred & Farrell, Joe
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Lee Young

Description: Interview with Lee Young about the history of the Los Angeles jazz scene. Young discusses how long he has been in Los Angeles (since 1929), the scene in the 1930s, his family's band, his first job with Mutt Carey, an anecdote about Fats Waller in Los Angeles, Stuff Smith, and meeting Cozy Cole, the Famous Door in Los Angeles, learning from Cozy Cole; Al Morgan, guitarist Buddy Harper, the jazz scene beyond Central Avenue (for example, in Long Beach), segregation, the Oasis club, Norman Granz' s… more
Date: May 5, 1981
Duration: 40 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Bourque, Fred & Young, Lee, 1914-2008
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with Teddy Edwards and Art Pepper

Description: Separate interviews with Teddy Edwards and Art Pepper, followed briefly by additional audio from the Edwards interview. The topic of jazz in Los Angeles situates the Edwards interview among others conducted in 1981. Audio from the Art Pepper interview, discovered after digitization, may go with that of the freestanding interview of him also in this collection. Listeners are advised that in this recording, Pepper discusses committing a sexual assault also disclosed in his autobiography. Teddy Ed… more
Date: [1981?,1981-08-11]
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Edwards, Teddy, 1924-2003 & Pepper, Art, 1925-1982
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Leonard Feather interviews Charlie Parker

Description: Leonard Feather interviews Charlie Parker, with mention of a recent trip to Europe (11 days in Scandinavia, 4 days in Paris, matching discographical records for late November 1950) and discussion about Reinhold Svenson; Feather asks Parker about the controversy about Cab Calloway's article in the February, 1951 issue of Ebony Magazine, titled "Is Dope Killing Our Musicians?" (pages 22-28). Musical excerpts ("Blue and Moody" and "Dearly Beloved") are "telescoped" (that is, truncated so that only… more
Date: February 1951
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994 & Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Separate Leonard Feather interviews with Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins

Description: This recording contains two separate interviews by Leonard Feather. The first is his "blindfold test" interview with Charlie Parker in 1948. After a brief silence, the second interview begins at 32:25, and features Coleman Hawkins on Feather's program Jazz At Its Best on New York radio station WHN 1050 AM. The interview is interspersed with musical selections (Fletcher Henderson, Money Blues; Red McKenzie, One Hour; Benny Carter, Somebody Loves Me, Hawkin's solo on Body and Soul; Passing It Aro… more
Date: 1948
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 05 seconds
Creator: Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994; Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 & Hawkins, Coleman
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with Max Roach, John Lewis, Morris Hansboro, Clark Terry, Jimmie Rowles, William Davenport; NPR program on Charlie Parker

Description: Interviews with with Max Roach, John Lewis, festival attendee Morris Hansboro, Clark Terry, Jimmie Rowles, and William Davenport in conjunction with the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1973. All are interviewed mainly on the subject of Charlie Parker for a radio tribute produced by Tim Owens. The interview with Max Roach runs through 28:20; Roach discusses Parker as an "evolutionary" figure, demands for originality and the intensive schedule of gigs and jam sessions in New York, how the war excise ta… more
Date: 1973/1974
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Owens, Timothy Gene; Alpert, Glenn; Roach, Max, 1924-2007; Lewis, John, 1920-2001 & Hansboro, Morris
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Randy Weston, part 2

Description: A follow-up interview with Randy Weston after the initial interview on October 20, 1997. The location is unidentified, but in this interview, Weston has a piano for extended discussions and demonstrations. The recording begins before the interview as the interviewer, John Diliberto, and an unidentified technician (noted to be from Austria) set up and soundcheck the piano, Weston arrives at 8:28, mentioning Brian Bacchus, and having done an interview that morning on the history of jazz in Brookl… more
Date: January 12, 1997
Duration: 57 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Diliberto, John & Weston, Randy, 1926-2018
Partner: UNT Music Library
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