Vincent Outlaw: Playboy Jazz Festival Weblog

Posting Live from the 27th Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 2, Sunday, June 12, 2005

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:43:07 GMT

The 27th Playboy Jazz Festival continues with Day 2, Sunday, June 12, 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl! Looking forward to a continuation of the fun began in Day 1, with Live photo and audio reports all day, so visit often!

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27th Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 1, June 11, 2005 - Photos, Audio, Memories

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:10:45 GMT

The 27th Playboy Jazz Festival opened up the climactic weekend at the Hollywood Bowl with Day 1, Saturday, June 11, 2005 and provided lots of great, varied, music and only those kind of moments that this one of a kind concert event always provides. Here are some of them... Pictures: 2005.6.11 - 27th Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 1 like that of Joey Defrancesco / Kenny Burrell Tribute to Jimmy Smith, taken both on camera phone (posted live) and digital camera. Props to Lawrence "Don't Call Me Larry" Lebo for digging the pictures Live of her mentor Kenny Burrell! If you are a Flickr user and want to share some pictures from the great party, you can add them to the Playboy Jazz Festival Experience group at Flickr and they will show up right in this badge...Cool!! Here's are the last few shared there...

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Live From The 27th Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl - Day 1, June 11, 2005

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:55:10 GMT

UPDATE 6/12/05: 27th PBJF Day 1 Summary and Photo Set available at http://TheNewJazzThing.com/2005/06/12.html#a306 I'm so very lucky to be at the 27th Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, so I'm posting Live pictures via Cameraphone / Flickr and Live Audio via phone / Audioblog all weekend, where you can check it all out there (or via RSS feed) at

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Lynn Dally of The Jazz Tap Ensemble on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, June 9, 2005

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:45:26 GMT

Lynn Dally of The Jazz Tap Ensemble chats about the mission and history of JTE in anticipation of their performance with the next generation of Jazz Tappers, The Caravan Project, at the 27th Playboy Jazz Festival, June 11-12, 2005. It's all on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday June 9, 2005 between 7 and 8 pm PT (2-3 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Check out the 13 minute conversation with the appropriate MP3 format and enjoy!

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Double G and daKah Hip Hop Orchestra on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, June 2, 2005

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:05:36 GMT
Geoff "Double G" Gallegos and his 70 piece daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra are playing the 27th Playboy Jazz Festival this year and are doing totally cool things with Jazz across lots of different genres of music. Double G chats about all of this on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday, June 2, 2005 between 8 and 9 pm PT on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Here's the 11 minute 59 second interview audio for you to dig...
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Kevin Eubanks, Playboy Jazz Festival MC, on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, June 2, 2005

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:43:33 GMT
Kevin Eubanks is the MC for both days of the 27th Playboy Jazz Festival, June 11-12, 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl, scaling up from his 1 day duties last year. Kevin chats about that and other New Things on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday, June 2, 2005 between 8 and 9 pm PT (3-4 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Here's the 15 minutes 37 second interview audio for your enjoyment...
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Brigitte Berman on Artie Shaw on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, May 26, 2005 - Online MP3

Fri, 27 May 2005 13:32:38 GMT
Brigitte Berman, producer of the Oscar winning documentary "Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got", is chatting about Artie and the upcoming screening June 2, 2005 as part of the Playboy Jazz Festival, on The New Jazz THing with Vince Outlaw, May 26, 2005, between 7 and 8 pm PT (2-3 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org!
Here's the 11 minutes, 5 second interview in Streaming and Downloadable MP3 Formats:
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Download MP3. Take the audio with you anywhere! What an enjoyable interview...especially the fact of getting to talk to other Jazz lovers expressing themselves About Jazz using their chosen medium...in the case, the visual documentary. And Bridgette was very interesting to talk to. Thanks Brigitte!!

Joe Lovano's Joyous Encounter with The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, May 26, 2005

Thu, 26 May 2005 13:55:14 GMT
Jazz Saxophone heavyweight Joe Lovano is talking about his new disc "Joyous Encounter" and an upcoming performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday, May 26, 2005 between 8 and 9 pm PT (3-4 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Here is the 19 minute, 5 second interview in streaming and download MP3 formats for your enjoyment!
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Download MP3 (17.8 MB). Take the interview where ever you roam! The swan-like saxophone looks longingly at it's master, Joe. Lots of cool photos by John Abbot on Joe's Press Kit page.

Murray Lerner and Miles Electric on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, May 26, 2005

Thu, 26 May 2005 13:50:28 GMT
Academy award winning documentary producer Murray Lerner is chatting about his film "Miles Electric" and it's upcoming screening as part of the Playboy Jazz Festival on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday, May 26, 2005 between 7 and 8 pm PT (2-3 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Here's the 12 minute, 52 second interview in MP3 formats...enjoy!!
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Download MP3 (11.8 MB). Take TNJT with you on the road! Fascinating to talk to the man who filled and has been releasing footage of the famous 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, including the source for this new Miles documentary. He also talk a lot about his new Who project. Check it out!

Darlene Chan Puts Together The Playboy Jazz Festival on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, March 3, 2005

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:52:25 GMT
Darlene Chan producer of the Playboy Jazz Festival is on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday, March 3, 2005 between 7 and 8 pm PT (3-4 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! The music of Ramsey Lewis, from his 2004 release Time Flies opens the 14 minute, interview and continues as the background to this chat with Festival Productions, Inc's west coast representative and producer of the Playboy Jazz Festival, Darlene Chan, the day after the announcement of the 27th Annual PBJF line-up at The Playboy Mansion. Darlene talks about the booking of both the free community events that are a tradition and the big enchilada, the weekend at the Hollywood Bowl, this year June 11 and 12, 2005 (breaking the usual Father's Day weekend event with this one's week later start). And we asked the burning question...Who's going to take Bill Cosby's MC spot (after 25 straight years) and host the Saturday show? Listen to Darlene Chan and VO now!
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Darlene Chan of Festival Productions with Jazz 88 DJ Ron Dhanifu, originally uploaded by Vince Outlaw.

Ron hangs with the lady who puts all the acts together for PBJF, Darlene Chan.

Richard (Dick) Rosenzweig of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. on The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, March 3, 2005

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:46:08 GMT
Dick Rosenzweig is on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Thursday, March 3, 2005 between 7 and 8 pm PT (3-4 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Chatting with Dick about his role at Playboy and the PBJF, some of the history of the event, his favorite moments, and the future of PBJF (and whether Hef's 80th BDay this year has an impact on plans going forward). Other things as the conversation deepens. Listen to Dick Rosenzweig and VO now!
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George Wein, Hugh Hefner, and Richard Rosenzweig, originally uploaded by Vince Outlaw.

George, Hugh, and Dick at The Playboy Mansion and the announcement of the line-up for the 27th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival.

The Playboy Jazz Festival Press Conference at The Mansion

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:05:30 GMT
Playboy Jazz announces the line-up for the 27th annual Playboy Jazz Festival today at the Playboy Mansion in Bel Air and The New Jazz Thing will be there covering it Live! I will be taking and posting pictures Live from the event. I may even be posting an audio blog or two Live...those audio postings will post in real time to http://VinceOutlaw.com. UPDATE A couple of audio posts live from the mansion, for those interested in listening:
World Debut Announcement of June 11-12 acts
First Impressions by VO and Jazz 88 DJ Ron Dhanifu I've got some camera phone pictures I took and posted Live from the press conference and they can be viewed at: http://flickr.com/photos/vo/sets/145788/ I will be adding some more of my digi-cam pictures to this set. If others want to share pictures from any of the events, I'd recommend using the Flickr photo sharing service...it's very cool. I've set-up a Flickr Group to which anyone can add their pictures: http://flickr.com/groups/playboyjazzfestival/

Spend Labor Day 2004 with The Playboy Jazz Festival 2004 On Jazz 88!!

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:24:18 GMT
You can hear The 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival from 9 am to 6 pm (16 to 1 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org!! Vince Outlaw, Jeff Ferguson, and the whole crack Playboy Jazz Festival Weblog staff covered the 26th Annual PBJF all the way, in cuddly-soft-blanket-like fashion, from The Press Conference At The Playboy Mansion, March 5, 2004, through blog postings and Live on-air interviews with PBJF artists on The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88, to full-bodied, live and fun multimedia coverage through out the Hollywood Bowl for the big climax...2 Full Days at The Hollywood Bowl, June 19-20, 2004!!! Check out what we've got, dig how we covered each event with are oh so priviledged and cherished access throughout the bowl, picking up new angles and meeting new friends along the way! And the 2005 coverage will only be better, Murphy willing! (You can get email notice when we update the site. More below.). Enjoy the Things!!!
Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 2004 PBJF Day 1: Weshots photo album, Quicktime Soundtracked Slide Show, Live Camera Phone Coverage, more photos.
Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 2004 PBJF Day 2: Webshots photo album, Live camera phone coverage, more photos.
The Press Conference at The Playboy Mansion, March 5, 2004: Photo album. Here's what the 2004 PBJF artists were talking about BEFORE the gig, in these MP3 audio interviews done Live on The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88 during the weeks between the announcement at the press conference and the weekend at the bowl!
2004.05.27 - Charles McPherson
2004.06.10 - Hugh Masekela
2004.06.10 - Kevin Eubanks
2004.06.17 - Jose Rizo
2004.06.17 - Gerald Wilson Get Email Updates Heading to PBJF 2005 If you want to get email when we update The PBJF Weblog, you're at the right place. We update thusly: Gradually increasing from around the time of the PBJF Press Conference in Feb/Mar until the traditional Father's Day weekend climax at The Hollywood Bowl, Otherwise, sporadic the rest of the year. We use the great Bloglet service for this sort of thing, and you can get updates from other sites / weblogs combined with this one...very cool. Just fill this form out to give them your email address (they are safe, in my book).
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Kirk (Almost) Dug All of The 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:41:25 GMT
Kirk Silsbee: It's (Almost) All Good
"There have surely been individual sets in the Playboy Jazz Festival[base ']s 26-year history that were more incandescent or momentous than what we heard during the first of the event[base ']s two days at the Hollywood Bowl last Saturday (June 19). But the sheer bulk of good music [^] set after set [^] was something that doesn[base ']t happen very often. It was among the few times in recent memory when leaving your seat for any reason was a risk that required calculation. Call it wishful thinking, but I[base ']d swear that people were, on the whole, actually listening. Hell, I only saw one beach ball in the air!"
Kirk dude, you are sooo right! Day 1 totally rocked it Jazz-style! Maybe Brian Culbertson is a bit of stretch in the 'Jazz-style' category, but how could Darlene have known their smooth, but truly heartfelt stuff, would be competing with such consistently killer acts?! What a great program and performances! Here's the TNJT covereage of Day 1 at the Playboy Jazz Festival Weblog...

2004 Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 2 - In Progress

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:45:34 GMT
Day 2 of the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival, Sunday, June 20, 2004, brought an even hotter day on the temperature side, but the sizzle of Day 1 just could not be matched. Read all about the acts and the facts by checking out...
The Official Webshots.com Photo Album: 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 2 - Sunday, June 20, 2004
We moblogged the show Live as it was happening, so...
2004 PBJF Day 2 - Live Camera Phone Pictures. And the full-on raw photos as they came out of the camera, for the most part...
2004 PBJF Photo Album - Day 2. The cover of the 2004 PBJF Program and the Day 2 lineup....

2004 Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 1 - Wynton Holds Court at Hugh's Party!

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:12:42 GMT
Day 1 of the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival lived up to all expectations with all aspects of this 2 day party rocking. Some heavy straight ahead Jazz sets by Charles McPherson, Coz of Good Music (James Carter wailed), and Wynton Marsalis confidently expressing his view that Jazz Lives! Hugh Masekela spoke from his world-soul, Yerba Buena shook their world-things, and Jose Rizo's Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars sent the party dancing home with visions of Day 2 in our heads.
The Official Webshots.com Photo Album: 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 1 - Saturday, June 19, 2004
We covered the day Live in many ways, so here are some of the other artifacts collected and synthesized in very minor ways...
2004 PBJF Day 1 Quicktime Movie (5.5 MB). With soundtrack by Day 1 artist, Hugh Masekela, and his song "Been Such A Long Time Gone".
2004 PBJF Day 1 Photo Album. This is the rough draft, which we'll move over to Webshots with past PBJF photos.
2004 PBJF Day 1 - Live Camera Phone Pictures. These are in reverse order, with the last picture first. I didn't get much opportunity for audio posts during the day, with the 3 posts representing different approaches and inspirations: a wrap-up of the first 2 sets, setting up (without success) an improptu phone interview with Charles McPherson, and capturing the Savion Glover experience by phone. Not very post-worthy any, but examples of vision for this type of reporting experience. We'll see what happens with Day 2 today. Here's yesterday's first post... We met up with Sherry and Hubby (how he's best known to friends of TNJT) in their prime front-box, while my producer Jeff F. and I experienced quite a few different locals during the day. Dr. Jazz was in the house, talked with James Zollars of Savion's band about a TNJT Live appearance this week, chatted with Charles McPherson, met Hugh Masekela, buttonholed James Carter, talked branding with Tiffany Victoria Bradshaw, and said Hi to Jose Rizo. What a great day!!
Sheery and Hubby Dig Wynton On to Day 2!!!

The 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival! Covered Live by Thew New Jazz Thing

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:29:15 GMT
I'm covering the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival, live via camera phone and audio blog posts for the entire weekend!! Check out the pictures and audio as it happens at... [Update...] It happened. And you can check it out: 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 1 - Wynton Holds Court at Hugh's Party!

The Jose Rizo Jazz on The Latin Side All Stars Interview

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:31:15 GMT
Chatting with Jose about the origins of the music... Part 1: http://TheNewJazzThing.com/gems/20040616_JoseRizo_Pt1.mp3 (7 MB) And playing Ironman James from The Last Bullfighter... And now Jose is gone.... And now I'm covering by playing title track, The Last Bullfighter... And Jose is still gone, so I break and come back with another tune...BeBop....and improvising the phone thing....fading to Jose.... Jose Rizo back on the phone... Part 2: http://TheNewJazzThing.com/gems/20040616_JoseRizo_Pt2.mp3 (13 MB) And ending the interview and the evening with another tune from the disc...Mr. Drop... I'm not sure I like this 'one post' for the interview, but it's something new.... Miff Mole up next....Night Night....

The Gerald Wilson Interview on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:59:16 GMT
Chatted with Gerald about the PBJF... http://TheNewJazzThing.com/gems/20040617_GeraldWilson_Pt1.mp3 (10.8 MB) Then...Gerald from New York, New Sound...Josefina... The a little more chat and some great laughs...! http://TheNewJazzThing.com/gems/20040617_GeraldWilson_Pt2.mp3 (13.7 MB) Ending with Blues for Yna Yna from New York, New Sound

2004 Fine Fillies Make An Appearance With Witts Springs Arkansas Newest Citizens, The Williams Brothers!

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:55:03 GMT
I couldn't resist sharing with Wade what had been shared with me, by Jeff...
click for larger view of all 8 To which he replied (and confirmed via reporting on TNJT Moblog Live from OB this past evening),
"You dog!!! You gotta be hookin' a brother up next time that gaggle is around! Holy crap, that's one fine shot (a four fine fillies)!!!"
To which he added his take on Tuesday afternoon's eathquake Thing (which I experienced seated and quickly footed with my partner in crime Marty in a conference room awaiting what turned out to be a fruitful and positive business / IT interaction this afternoon),
"Thanks for making my afternoon a wilder one (just felt the earthquake as I was drooling over the pic!)..."
So that was the earthquake and not the earth moving? Come on NetworkDudes staring over GuruDude's shoulder at his NetworkBabeFrameWorksataion. The earth moved and so did this bench backstage at the Hollywood Bowl last year, 2003 Playboy Jazz Festival - Day 1. And this weekend, we'll be going back north this coming weekend for the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival. And we'll be coming Live with camera phone and audio blogs both Saturday and Sunday at The New Jazz Thing Moblog at http://TNJT.TextAmerica.com. In a like manner to what we did tonight via camera phone from OB... Witt's Spring, Arkansas Welcomes the Williams Brothers! The Carson, or 'OBsian' as we re-named it, is in the process of being located near Witt('s?) Spring, Arkansas, population 8, somewhere high above the warmer, sticker elevations of Wades days-of-yore in the plains of Russellville. And the whole town is getting prepped for the coming of the Bros and word has it a big down-home parade through the center of the county seat is planned in late summer. Or something like that. Anyway the place deep in the Arkansas hills looks like it's going to be pretty darn earthy, and somewhat habitable in the Fall (to my imagined bug-gone liking, locals will more than likely disagree...home sweet home...he says from the near-foot of Orchard, down OB way). This and other things kept our minds for a bit, pleasantries exchanged, and the next and now quickly recapped turn came down as I made my way down Sunset from OB. I went to Jazz 88 broadcast studios and library, downtown SD, capitalizing on a little extra time to add to my music research vaults, tunage from this Thursday's most righteous of interview line-ups...6 to 9 pm PT (Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM webcast http://Jazz88Online.com)...
Gerald Wilson, legendary west coast cool progressive big band orchestra composer, arranger. Playing the Playboy Jazz Festivaly this weekend.
Jose Rizo or The Jazz On The Latin Side All-Stars, new disc released this week and all! And playing the Play Jazz Festival this weekend. (pattern emerging)
Wynton Marsalis, the most widely known and influential Jazz player of my generation, continuing to create with this year's The Magic Hour. What an honor to chat Jazz with him! He's playing in San Diego on Friday. And the Playboy Jazz Festival this weekend. (pattern confirmed and validated). I ripped the Jazz from the library while shooting the Jazz chat with the Groove Master Ron Dhanifu pulling the late night Jazz 88 Ops shift. And I beat it back to Chaos. Where this rant may have siphoned enough steam to allow a couple hours of downtime. To which I retire. Keep on singing!

2004.05.06 - The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88, Thursday evening 6 to 9 pm PT - Charles McPherson, Deems Tsu

Fri, 28 May 2004 00:46:28 GMT
The New Jazz Thing is Live on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM and worldwide webcast at http://KSDS-FM.org, from 6 to 9 pm PT TONIGHT, Thursday, May 27, 2004! Charles McPherson will be with us by phone in Hour 2 of the New, 7:00 pm PT. Charles has had the mantle of Charlie Parker to carry around for the better part of his career, so we are going to ask him about that, his tenure with Charles Mingus in the 60'-70's, and, most excitedly, about upcoming dates in Los Angeles at the Playboy Jazz Festival.
UPDATE! Charles McPherson Interview on MP3 (20 MB) Bradley Leighton and Deems Tsutakawa will be on in Hour 3 of the New, 8:00 pm PT, talking about a gig this weekend at Dizzy's, Deems weeklong gig at the Microsoft TechEd 2004 conference in town this week, and, more than likely, Jazz in the Northwest (as Deems and Bradley have both made Seattle home at one point or another). Should be a great evening of Jazz and Jazz talk tonight on TNJT!!

Dale Fielder on The New JAzz Thing, Thursday, May 20, 2004

Fri, 21 May 2004 00:48:55 GMT
Dale Fielder will be on The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM and worldwide webcast at http://KSDS-FM.org, tonight, Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 7:20 pm PT! Tune in to hear this highly original Jazz artist talk about his new disc Suite: Clarity and his upcoming date at the Playboy Jazz at Brookside park coming on May 29-31, 2004 in Pasadena, CA. Check out more info coming on the Playboy Jazz Festival Weblog!

Charles Mcpherson On The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, May 27, 2004

Fri, 21 May 2004 00:23:37 GMT
Charles McPherson, saxophonist and Jazz legend (and San Diegan), will be on TNJT Live on Jazz 88 next week, Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 7:20 pm PT. Charles is the real deal when it comes to Jazz saxophonists and it's a wonder I haven't had him on the show before, but we're going to make the most of our short time together. I wonder if he'll be coming down or not..Live in studio would be soooo coooool. Charles is also playing the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, Saturday, June 19, 2004, so we'll chat about that upcoming date too. Right on!!

Hugh Masekela Still Grazin' On The New Jazz Thing (and NPR), May 27, 2004

Thu, 20 May 2004 06:49:00 GMT
Hugh Masekela will be on The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88, Thursday, June 3, 2004, 6 to 9 pm PT! We'll be talking about his recent autobiography "Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela" and his upcoming performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival, June 19-20, 2004 at the Hollywood Bowl. What an honor for TNJT to be speaking with him! For more on PBJF, check out the Playboy Jazz Festival Weblog. Hugh was on NPR's Talk of the Nation last week for an almost 50 minute interview. It should provide much insight in preparation for a chat with this soulful legend.

Dale Fielder and Suite: Clarity On TNJT Live on Jazz 88, Thursday, May 20, 2004

Tue, 18 May 2004 06:46:13 GMT
Dale Fielder will be on the show Thursday, May 20, 2004, so I'm digging his New one Suite: Clarity tonight and checking out liner notes, bio, and press verbage from Dale's pretty cool website. Next step...