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Profiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Randi & Denny Tedesco Discuss Wrecking Crew Stories and The Magnificent Legacy Of Brian Wilson!Don Randi is a keyboard player, songwriter, arranger, bandleader and one of the most prolific session musicians in history. Don was born in New York City but raised in the Catskill Mountains where he studied classical music. He moved to Los Angeles in 1954 and, by the early 60s, Don was leading his own groups and working with a who's who of now legendary artists. Don is also the founder and owner of the long-standing L.A. nightclub the Baked Potato which he opened way back in 1970. Denny Tedesco is a film producer known f...2025-07-211h 17
Profiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Two: Ashley Kahn Episode UpdatedAshley Kahn is a Grammy-winning author, educator, music journalist, and concert producer. His books include A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.One of 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival ShortsAnd inside look into the legendary Festival and what talks Ashley hosted this year including, Conversation: Songs for My Father — Soundtracks and Jazz with Kyle Eastwood & Ashley Kahn, Conversation: Crescendo in Blue — Vinyl Past, Vin...2024-10-2118 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take One: Don Was Episode UpdatedDon Was is one of music’s most significant artists and executives, exceling in multiple roles and serving as one of the industry’s beacons for integrity and forward-thinking. During this period of disruption and rapid evolution in the worldwide music business, Was remains committed to music as an art form and its importance to contemporary culture. As the President of Blue Note Records since 2011, Was is both the company’s leader and an ambassador for its music, charged with bringing the label’s 21st Century jazz artists and its expanding pallet of contemporary musicians to larger audience...2024-10-2110 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Three: Don Was EpisodeDon Was is one of music’s most significant artists and executives, exceling in multiple roles and serving as one of the industry’s beacons for integrity and forward-thinking. During this period of disruption and rapid evolution in the worldwide music business, Was remains committed to music as an art form and its importance to contemporary culture. As the President of Blue Note Records since 2011, Was is both the company’s leader and an ambassador for its music, charged with bringing the label’s 21st Century jazz artists and its expanding pallet of contemporary musicians to larger audience...2024-10-1610 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Two: Ashley Kahn EpisodeAshley Kahn is a Grammy-winning author, educator, music journalist, and concert producer. His books include A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.One of 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival ShortsAnd inside look into the legendary Festival and what talks Ashley hosted this year including, Conversation: Songs for My Father — Soundtracks and Jazz with Kyle Eastwood & Ashley Kahn, Conversation: Crescendo in Blue — Vinyl Past, Vin...2024-10-1518 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueMusician & Producer Don Was On Don Was & The Pan Detroit EnsembleDon Was & The Pan Detroit EnsembleMaggie LePique speaks with Don Was about his new musical group Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Don & the Ensemble are embarking on a West Coast run of concert dates in September 2024. Made up of stellar jazz musicians from his Detroit hometown, The Pan-Detroit Ensemble will perform a mix of new originals, interpretations of songs written by artists like Yusef Lateef, Olu Dara, and Henry Threadgill, and of course updated cuts from albums that Don recorded with Orquestra Was and Was (Not Was). Don’s Detroit roots still run deep an...2024-08-1651 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Randi, Keyboard Player, Bandleader, And Veteran Of One Of The Most Prolific And Successful Group Of LA Studio Session Musicians Known As The Wrecking Crew.Don Randi is a keyboard player, bandleader, longtime nightclub owner (no easy feat in L.A.) and a veteran of one of the most prolific and successful group of Los Angeles studio session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.He began his career as a professional pianist and keyboard player in 1956, gradually establishing a reputation as a leading session musician. In the early 1960s, he was a major contributor, as musician and arranger, to producer Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound". He also played piano on "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," by Nancy Sinatra, and The...2024-05-101h 04Profiles With Maggie LePiqueThe Jazz Detective Zev Feldman On Sister Rosetta Tharpe Previously Unreleased Recording Live In France: The 1966 Concert In Limoges Record Store Day Release 2024Maggie speaks with Zev Feldman, an internationally recognized, independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records in Los Angeles. He is also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records. Zev & Maggie discuss Live In France: The 1966 Concert In Limoges is a previously unissued live solo recording of the "Godmother of Rock n’ Roll," Sister Rosetta Tharpe, captured at the auditorium of the Grand Theatre in Limoges, France on November 11, 1966. This is an official release on producer Zev Feldman's new Deep Digs re...2024-04-0738 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Was, Blue Note’s Renaissance Music Man Goes Deep On The Brilliant Musical Legacy Of Wayne ShorterDon Was is one of music’s most significant artists and executives, exceling in multiple roles and serving as one of the industry’s beacons for integrity and forward-thinking. During this period of disruption and rapid evolution in the worldwide music business, Was remains committed to music as an art form and its importance to contemporary culture. As the President of Blue Note Records since 2011, Was is both the company’s leader and an ambassador for its music, charged with bringing the label’s 21st Century jazz artists and its expanding pallet of contemporary musicians to larger audiences...2023-11-2141 min