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MFM SPEAKS OUTEP 29: Alina Bloomgarden on Bringing Jazz to the Classical Music World and Music to the Prisons"If one person's sense of value as a human being is renewed, their family, their community, all of us are affected by it in a positive way. We all benefit"In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, our guest is Alina Bloomgarden. Alina was the original producer of Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), the Lincoln Center Reel to Real series, and Director of Visitors Services for 23 years, where she received the Directors Emeriti Award for outstanding achievement. Proposing that jazz had a rightful place at America’s preeminent performing arts center, she invited Wynton Marsalis to participate as A...2021-07-3059 min
MFM SPEAKS OUTEP 23: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi on the Founding of Musicians For Musicians“Musicians With Attitude...in order to be active collectively you have to change as a person. So in order to become not only a better musician but also a better human being, you must change yourself.”In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (a.k.a. SoSaLa). Ladjevardi is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, producer, entrepreneur, activist, and the founder and president of Musicians For Musicians (MFM. He has lived in and performed in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States as well as releasing several independently produced albums. The topics discussed focused...2021-01-221h 08