TranscriptThoughts About, and Selectionsfrom "Melodic Faces"We're doing something a little differently for this episode of the Jazz LegacyRadio Podcast. If you're familiar with the program you kno...

 This episode is a love letter to the blues, with nods towards possible forebears, like the African trickster spirit, Elegba, who morphed into various protagonists of countless folktales of the African diaspora, using cunning to survive. I...

   Tap dancer Johnathan Morin talks about how his art form has taught him life lessons, and how deeper exploration of his history, and his Cree heritage informs what he does, and helps him develop more as a person. 

Retired  engineer Steve Bowie talks to me about meeting and working with Kenny Burrell, his lifelong love of Ellington, his  Ellington Reflections podcast and the upcoming book he's writing about Cootie Williams.

   Tap dancer Travis Knights is well respected in the tap dance community. In this interview, he shares what he has learned about himself, his artform and lessons from one of his most valued and important mentors, the late legend, Eth...