PRACTICE PORTAL

SONNY ROLLINS VISITS THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOW FOR A HALF HOUR INTERVIEW…

Watch Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley.

Words and music from the one and only Dewey Redman…

You can watch the whole video HERE…

Gil Noble interviews Abbey Lincoln in 1979. what an amazing woman and artist! she talks about her family, getting started as a singer, her personal philosophies, visiting Africa as a guest of Miriam Makeba and amending her name. she also recites some of her poetry and blesses us with fat nuggets of wisdom. i came across these videos on a very informative blog that i often check out called NEW BLACK MAN. it addresses contemporary Black politics and culture. the Lincoln videos and the blog in general are well worth checking out… (Sorry, but after I posted the original videos the links died so i found the ones below, which are only excerpts…)

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Neil, a friend of mine here in Tokyo, hipped me to this video of saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Paul Jeffrey making music and discussing performance, practice, communication, isolation, self- awareness, etc…

Miles Davis interviewed by Bill Boggs on his television show ‘Time Out’ in 1986.

In Bill’s words…

“I have been told by people over the years that this was an historic interview. ‘Do you ever remember Miles Davis being on a talk show?’ Apparently not too many people do cause they keep telling me this is unique. How’d it happen? Well the entire long form story is part of my play ‘Talk Show Confidential,’ but the Cliff Notes version is: I ran into Miles when I was in a restaurant in Los Angeles. Actually, he came to my table and said hello. ‘That Midday was like my Today show,’ he told me in that raspy voice. It turned out he’d been watching me for years and said, ‘I always wanted you to interview me.’ So the way this whole thing happened was he asked me what I was doing and I told him I had a show in Philadelphia called ‘Timeout’ and he basically said let’s arrange to do it. And about a month or so later, there he was. I was not pleased that the producers of the show chose to add other guests. It should have been just Miles and me for the entire hour. But they were afraid he wouldn’t carry the ratings-small thinking, in my opinion, since his appearance on the show made headlines and was discussed before and after on local radio. Anyway, the charming Maurice Hines, an old friend joins in as do some young trumpet players- which sort of worked..See for yourself..Miles Davis circa 1986 in Philadelphia.”

-Bill Boggs