Grew up around Jack and his son. My folks were also in the Jazz biz in L.A. What a genuine guy and always fun to be around. Rest In Peace Jack.

This was an excellent interview . So many things to think about and explore and not forgetting about the masters of this music and how they developed . I love watching your interviews .I even repeat a few and get some things that I missed the first time . Your work is so important !

Jack was an amazing musician and very witty! Not enough of us know who he was and appreciated him.

What a great drummer and wonderful man…. Yes he’s been around the block a few times, a fountain of knowledge 😎

yes thank you - gleem sir

Shout out to Joya.... when she was at the college radio station I called everyday and requested amalgamation 😊

I've been waiting for this one. Nice job Monk!

The first intimate interview I've seen with big Ed. Seems like a very nice well spoken man. He didn't play on the Carson show all those years by accident. He's a great musician 🥁

Your work is a national treasure. Gene was a guitar master.

I love this, Tom is a better person than a player and he is a tremendous player🎺🎺

I was in line at Barns and Noble in Phoenix to have Steve sign my video tape of his show shortly after this interview and before his death. Thank you, Steve, for sharing your talent with us. RIP.

That's my uncle

A criminally under-rated drummer and musician. Ed worked for decades playing with the Tonight Show Orchestra. Five nights a week, a different musical artist; reading charts of jazz, rock, folk, country and every genre you could think of. Ed was the definition of a drummer who could cut anything. I took a lesson from him back in the 70's. He spent his time speaking about swing and feel. Just a really beautiful guy.

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I was in the Dues Band that Phil directed at Berklee. To this day I look back at that time as such a rich and valuable musical experience. Phil could be tough at times but I wouldn’t change a minute of those times. Phil Wilson is a national treasure and responsible for educating so many successful musicians through the decades.

WOW!!! 90 years and The Paesano is still around. #franksantopadre should Interview him soon 😁👍🏻 Watching THE NEXT LINE on The game show as we speak 😛

Thank you for this great interview.Jon Hendricks was really a wise and spritual man and it´s a pleasure to listen to him talk.I can only complain because the world in the new century is not going like he predicted.If things were like he said this would be a wonderful place to leave.

Yeah, "While We're Young" is a great CD. Love "Bo Diddy" from Tatics. Speak of The Devil is dark and moody slow burn. One of my favorite trios.

Monk, I have commented on this interview several times. But with my particular background, I find new aspects and revelations about Jay and his place in jazz history with repeated listenings. Monk, your restraint as interviewer was so important in allowing Jay to open up in this interview! But let me finally emphasize that Jay’s band of the early 1940s was one of the five greatest jazz orchestras of the classic era; the others being Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie. And Jay’s band was very important in helping Charlie Parker develop his approach and style.

Cakewalk with Joe Pass, Niels in Italy 1985.

Stellar musician, sweet guy. Great interview!

What an amazing Interview. He is incredible, and so sorry to hear about his troubles that started in 2020 during the pandemic - it just proves that life isn't fair.

Herb was without a doubt my favorite Jazz/Swing guitarst. I listened to TONS of his recordings and saw him live with "The Great Guitars" (with Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Joe Byrd and John Rae). I even found hie phone number later in his life and called him just to say how much I appreciated him & his music!!! Great interview!!

Amazing work, thank you very much for your knowledge, greetings.

Being partially deaf, I found his voice quite difficult to understand perhaps the the microphone may have been better placed

TRULY TRULY A LEGENDARY MUSICIAN.

Truly wonderful interview. I have shared it to other monster musicians. I went to NORTH TEXAS at the same time as LOU after four years touring with The NORAD "Cavalcade of Music". I was not on the 1 O'clock Lab Band, 2 O'clock my best, but went back to The USAF Academy Band FALCONAIRES. I truly truly appreciate this interview. The Jazz Snob was Lou at that time, pretty funny to hear him say it here. I have kept track of Lou and Tom Malone all my life since North Texas. At 80 now, it is awesome that you have excited me. GOD BLESS

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Oh wait a minute how u gonna talk about founding fathers of Latin Jazz and just leapfrog over Tito Puente? TP was one of the very first calling his music "Latin Jazz" and one of his worldwide compositions was "Oye Como Va" which he lent to Carlos Santana...

I would of love to meet him but he passed away before I was even born

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ-cZ2CLlraKis0 I wouldn’t even know where to begin in pointing out the various references and implications of this documentary. Jay McShNn’s memory is very approximate, and he’s often off by a few years in his recounting. But what a beautiful man to get to know! Jay led, of course, the last of the great black jazz orchestras to come out of Kansas City; a band which introduced Charlie Parker to the world. And then Jay himself, as a pianist, is one of the indisputable giants of jazz. Despite the fact that Jay was a world renowned musician, he was also in many ways a very simple man. And he remained resident in Kansas City, and he gigged locally for much of the year, providing work for many his less renowned friends. I love that this interview includes following Jay in his car, on the streets of KC, as well as following Jay to his little motel room in Lincoln Nebraska. Though history has not quite caught up with this fact yet, between 1940 and 1943, Jay McSann led one of the four or five greatest jazz ensembles in history; right up there with Basie and Ellington. - No kidding! This documentary would have been made in the early 1970s.

Great, thank you!

Thanks Monk!

Obtaining a mastery through the process of apprenticeship is becoming a lost art.

Love Herb

Marvelous interview. Carol has such a lovely decorous, intelligent way about her; and of course, it's brought out to the fullest by one of the supreme interviewers, Monk. I love the way they both balanced the general central components of making a documentary with talking about the lady herself...Miss Williams.

I loved Etta ❤ she would come to our house to rehearse and I never knew she was as world renowned as she is. Her story is phenomenal! She sang with Dorothy Dandridge and her sister. To think she was like an Aunt to me growing up.

Thankyou for this ..does anyone have the documentary "jazz is my native language"? Thanks

Scott Hamilton! Saw him in Barcelona recently ... . | Meanwhile, who is the Steve Allen of today? Does one even exist?

He was an American treasure. I'm grateful to have been young when there were Steve Allen's on the planet.

Very insightful comments by Evan Christopher, great interview Monk!!

While going through things my father left for me, I found Danny's autograph on the back of a Glen Miller Orchestra concert, July 7, 1971 on the lawn at Siena College. I was only 10 and have never forgotten sitting on the grass listening to the big band with my family as we visited my grandparents in upstate New York. Great interview with great info, thanks for posting.

I listen to him sometimes on WPRB. I always wondered what he looks like. His voice reminds me of an old friend of mine.

bless you monk for letting him talk as much as you did. This will definitely take multiple listens, he is a real vestige of truth telling and wisdom and you are in your prime as an interviewer at this point

Bebop revisited is one of the greatest albums in the idiom! Charles is in the lineage of the greats that came from Detroit

Mr.Rowe would you happen to have any interviews with the late musicians such as Leo Parker; Wadell Gray; Eric Dolphy; Charlie Parker; Theloneous Monk; and Dizzy Gillespie."

A wonderful interview. Thank you Monk, K.

"If you're saying no - I can't use you, I'm lookin' for somebody sayin' yes. Why would I wanna be bothered with no?" Great interview, thanks! :)

God bless Mr. Valentín. R.I.P.

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