Duke Pearson radio interview - 1970
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Superb jazz composer, pianist, and composer Duke Pearson was interviewed by Dan McClosky for a radio show in 1970. He was an A&R producer for Blue Note Records at that time. He had impeccable music taste and his Blue Note Records under his leadership are classics. He was a great arranger and led small groups as well as a big band. In 1971 he was diagnosed with MS and sadly died of it in 1980 at age 47. His life was cut short but he left us with many outstanding recordings to remember him by.
This 1970 interview of my late uncle Duke Pearson is fantastic. Its like hes right in the room talking to me. I took care of him when he came back home to Atlanta sick with M.S.Even after 44 years since his passing i miss him dearly 💔
Really pleased you got to hear the interview. I only met him that one time but he was a real gentleman and a very nice person. What a great composer and piano player. One of my favorites.
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We lost Mr Calvin Pearson too early. A brilliant composer, pianist and music director.
I wasn’t very familiar with Mr. Pearson’s work both as a musician and producer until listening to this informative interview.
He unfortunately died at a rather young age.
Fabulous ...
Really glad you liked it. He was a great pianist, composer, and producer. So sad he died so young.
@@danmccloskyradiointerviewsThank you!!!! Did not know of him.
The rhythm is fantastic. The interplay between the congas, piano is great. I attended a 1 hour class by Hutcherson at the Both/And club in about 1975. Also John Handy did a class. Sponsored by the guy that use to organize those events at Fillmore. West and Winterland. Can't remember his name.
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Fantastic insight thanks so much for posting :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this.As brilliant and important as Duke Pearson was to the jazz world,and particularly for his contribution to the operation of Blue Note,this is the first interview I have come across with this incredible musician and producer. Dan,thank you for this and all the other interviews on this great archive.
Thank you for this channel, The exposure to jazz material I received from UA-cam living in India is beyond compare. Been a jazz music fan for a couple of decades. To think that living in NYC is actually a poorer experience than looking for such gems on UA-cam. I never could have imagined this in a million years.
Glad you like the channel. I'll be posting some more interviews in the coming weeks. One is with Charles Mingus. I didn't interview him, but I was the engineer for the recording and got to meet him. I'll be adding Horace Silver interview and Yusef Lateef, and John Handy, and also adding some more blues interviews. Question: Do you currently live in India, or in NYC? As for me, I love listening to jazz performances over youtube, but there is nothing like hearing jazz in person. Whenever I go to NYC, I love to go the the Vanguard, Smoke, Birdland, and others to hear great jazz. NY is still the capital of live jazz. I try and hear as much jazz as I can out here in the San Francisco area. Fortunately there is still a good amount of live jazz.
@@danmccloskyradiointerviews SOMEBODY should do a proper in-depth, multi-hr i-view w TODD BARKAN before he, 2, is gone. Lives in Baltimore, reckon, these days (?). Suggest contact !!!! Also the history of Jazz Workshop, ntm, the Blackhawk ...actually, a major cal producer ought to do a visual doc on the WHOLE history on SF Golden Age in Jazz !!! There is a purty decent doc on the Fillmore scene on the forum, but more is definitively in need. The time is late, so "Speak low ..."
@@danmccloskyradiointerviews Sorry about the delay, I so rarely comment on videos, I did not expect a reply back on a busy channel like yours. Thank you for writing back !
I live in Hyderabad, South India, now.
I have lived in San Jose/Mt. view and around NY City. I have not heard jazz live except some jams by bands that were part of Wesleyan Uni when I lived near campus. I moved back to India a decade ago. Hope to be back next year !
Duke Pearson was such an incredible talent,and an extremely vital part of Blue Note during his association with the label.This is the only interview I have ever found with this brilliant musician and producer. Dan,thanks for this and all the other interviews from this fantastic archive!
Another comment I would like to make:If I was doing a show based on one artist(which I did on WRTI, Temple University's jazz station for many years)your playlists and mine would almost be identical. It's nice to find someone with the same good ear and good taste!
THIS IS HISTORICAL. There is so little in public on what was really goin behind the scenes in the Animal Bros kingdom; mostly intentionally glossed over & still kept under wraps behind the beautiful, iconized cover art (pun int ..). Sby ought to do a proper visual doc in length how BN built its catalog, session release decisions and general expansional biz-strategy line extension policies. The fact being cmpny started its artistic decline after the Lib merger, ntm the last few yrs, which actually were quite pitiful & artistically seriously flawed and misdirected to a significant degree due sheer commercial sales growth pressures. NOT much talked-about subject. ANDREW HILL - whom I met in Europe 02, even he stumbled into empty machinations such as LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING (what a sin ! )
We met in 88, visited your home. The Mogie i-view also a gem. Wish more journalists from the semi-golden era would go open source like U just have done. Put it all out, there s a WW3 lurkin . . .
@@TheBirdBrothers ANDREW Hill s weakest BN lp. Tries desperately to marry advanced avantgarde jazz artist w current politics without politicizing it succintly enuff. The result is commercial opportunism. Money talks and the honey runs away, to opposite direction ; directly toward Wall St capitalist compound of greed & betrayal. LITTLE MILTON s "We re Gonna Make It" 68 was another sad example : they remodulated it into Coke commercial 4 the airwaves. Could not be more prostituted than that.
Hopefully this "channeller" finds a Jackie Mac i-view from his archives !! That ll be the day : LET FREEDOM RING ...
Outside of unique pleasure of hearing the voice of Duke Pearson the interview is pretty bland and dull as opposed to his music.