PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

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Keith Jarrett Turns 80: Hear his Thoughts in SoundKeith Jarrett, Venezia, Teatro Malibran, 24/07/2001. Photo: Robert Masotti Keith Jarrett is a true icon of modern music. The pianist came up through the jazz scene, playing with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis on signature recordings by both artists. He’s led several ensembles over the years with major jazz musicians including Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette and many, many more. In the 1970’s he began a new path that made the piano and Keith Jarrett synonymous. His series of solo piano improvisations, Facing you, The Köln Concerts” and the Sun Bear Concerts established his reputation for free form, yet melodic improvisatory flights. He spent the 80’s and 90s partly running from that reputation, making albums with orchestras, his standards trio, clavichords, recording Bach and an album of over dubbed impressions for flutes and drums called Spirit. In the early 2000s we ran a series called Thoughts in Sound, non-narrated meditations by several artists, among them Keith Jarrett. As a bonus Echoes podcast, I’d love for you to hear it. At the end, I say that Keith is still playing solo concerts and working with his standards trio, but that, sadly is no longer true. The pianist suffered a pair of paralyzing strokes in 2018, and while he has recovered enough to be mobile, his ability to play is almost completely gone. But Keith Jarrett is still with us at 80 and his music will be with us forever.

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I Sing the Song AI-Tony Gerber and the Singing Poet Society: The Echoes PodcastAI is everywhere and so many places you don’t even know it. Last year we even programmed an entire echoes using AI. It was pretty good, but dated. You know AI is in pop and library music, but there is one musician trying to use it for Art. His name is Tony Gerber and you’ve heard him with the electronic trio Spacecraft, Giles Reaves and Phil Keaggy and on many solo releases. He had the idea of taking classic poetry, setting it to AI manipulated music and using AI singers. It’s called the Singing Poet Society. Tony Gerber: Another, another point is that, you know, without the advent of AI to assist acting kind of as an assistant in this particular case, this idea would never have even come to fruition or even come about. Tony is one of  the least AI musicians you can imagined. We had him playing live pre-pandemic with Giles Reaves and I’m sure he was actually playing. Discover Tony Gerber’s journey and the music he’s creating in the Echoes Podcast.

Love, Loss Alienation with London Grammar: The Echoes Podcast  In the Echoes Podcast, the British dreampop trio, London Grammar. We talked to them in 2021 about their career and album, Californian Soil, an Echoes CD of the Month. Now they are back with their fourth album, The Greatest Love, also a CD of the Month. We’ve been told it’s a rare thing to get all three member, Hannah Reid, Dot Major and Dan Rothman together for an interview, but you will hear all three today in the Echoes Podcast. They talk about the usual: love, loss, alienation as well as Hannah Reid’s greatest love, her newborn child. But that’s not what the song is about. Hannah Reid: You know, it’s funny, I’ve said to Dan a few times that sometimes it feels like my lyrics are a bit prophetic in a way. This song was actually written long before I had my son, but it does take on a new meaning for me now. I do think of him when I think of this album. London Grammar has been on of the most singular acts of the 21st century. They released their debut album called If You Wait,  in 2013, lead by a single they first dropped independently on the internet, “Hey Now.” We were instantly seduced by the voice of Hannah Reid and the orchestrations of Dan Rothman and Dot Major. We talk to them in the Echoes Podcast. Read John Diliberto’s review of The Greatest Love. Read John Diliberto’s review of Californian Soil

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Last week we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd.  Well, it was a pretty deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes so today I’m giving you our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast..  Just to remind you you, Joe Boyd is a legendary producer and discoverer of new music from Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Muzsikás, to his Hannibal world music label, and more. A few years ago he wrote a great book that was a memoir of his life in the rock and roll world, White Bicycles. Now he’s written a deep dive into the influence of world music on western culture called And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – A Journey Through Global Music. From Ravi Shankar, to Flamenco, from South Africa to Paul Simon, Desi Arnaz to Dizzy Gillespie, it is a long, sometimes convoluted trip, all in search of an authentic music presence. We bring you our complete interview with this global traveler in the Echoes Podcast from PRX.

The Exotica Lounge of Kinobe: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, electronic artist Kinobe takes us into his ethereal lounge inspired by Sinatra-era strings and singers, exotica lounge music, 90s’ trip-hop, and the French duo, Air. Kinobe: I grew up in a household where I would hear Nelson Riddle at least once a day, my parents are big Sinatra fans. They like all of the crooners and then artists like Percy Faith. I love those sounds. Kinobe’s new album, Out of the Blue, is nothing short of entrancing, a dream journey to exotica. Kinobe is Julius Waters and John Diliberto talks with him in the Echoes Lounge from PRX.

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Joe Boyd is a legend in music, from producing Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Muzsikás, to his Hannibal world music label, and more. A few years ago he wrote a great book that was a memoir of his life in the rock and roll world, White Bicycles. Now he’s written a deep dive into the influence of world music on western culture called And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – A Journey Through Global Music. From Ravi Shankar, to Flamenco, from South Africa to Paul Simon, Desi Arnaz to Dizzy Gillespie, it is a long, sometimes convoluted trip, all in search of an authentic music presence. We talk to this global traveler in the Echoes Podcast from PRX.