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02/25/2010

Digging Out

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Feb 25, 2010 7:35:58 PM

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Team Moran Add one more win to the track record of Team Moran: pianist Jason Moran was just included in TheGrio’s 100, a Who’s Who of African-American achievement compiled by MSNBC.com. He’s one of the only jazz musicians featured (Wynton Marsalis is in there too). The video above outlines a bit of Moran’s back story, and concludes thus: “Young people wishing to get into the music are often just looking for something that is closer of a reflection of themselves. And hopefully my generation is continuing to kind of give people enough of a reflection of what can be possible within the...

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Production Junction A few years ago I had the idea to take a look at the issue of jazz record producers. I made some calls, attended sessions, and wrote several drafts of a big-picture piece. It sat a while, because it was an inside story written for an outside perspective. I just couldn’t make it compelling for a general-interest readership. Good thing we still have jazz magazines. This month an updated version of the piece appears in Down Beat; here’s the digital edition, for all you non-subscribers. I was happy DB decided to run it, as my byline hasn’t been in those...

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