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Each week on Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired, Grammy-Nominated jazz pianist Judy Carmichael explores these questions with celebrated creative artists who love jazz. A wide range of talents — everyone from Billy Joel to Seth MacFarlane — discuss their creative process and how jazz inspires them. They share their favorite recordings as well as insight into their life and art.
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Pianist Bill Charlap (Part 2) discusses the influence his musician parents have had on his jazz and his continuing love for the Great American Standards.
Pianist Bill Charlap (Part 1) discusses the influence his musician parents have had on his jazz and his continuing love for the Great American Standards.
We revisit Judy's conversation from 2000 (one of her first for Jazz Inspired) with author and movie critic Leonard Maltin where he discusses his favorite jazz, his own piano playing and his four-hand duet with Judy on Entertainment Tonight.
We revisit Judy's conversation with the late, much-admired pianist John Bunch, where he discusses the changes in the jazz world throughout his long career, and his work with Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman and other jazz giants.
British film maker, Hannah Rothschild, explores the extraordinary life of her great-aunt Pannonica de Koenigswarter, (close friend of Thelonius Monk and other jazz greats) who supported bebop long before it was appreciated by the general public.
Brazilian cornetist Marcelo Teixeira Da Costa is the Artistic Director of Brazilâ??s largest jazz festival, the I LOVE JAZZ Festival, a celebration mounted in 3 different cities throughout the country, celebrating not the music of Jobim or other bassa or samba masters, but the classic American jazz of Louis Armstrong and other greats of the early years of jazz.
Jazz pianist Mark Shane discusses his work for movie soundtracks and playing with jazz greats Doc Cheatham, Buck Clayton, Ruby Braff and others.
We revisit my 2012 conversation with filmmaker/Director JP Lipa about his PBS Christmas specials â??Heirloom Mealsâ?? and his use of jazz throughout (including my appearance singing a swinging â??Winter Wonderlandâ??) and his backstage filming of Michael Jackson during preparation for Michaelâ??s last tour.
UPDATED 1/13/2018 - Voice actor/singer Rachael MacFarlane discusses her role as â??Haleyâ?? on American Dad and other characters on Family Guy, working with her brother Seth, and her debut jazz CD Haley Sings, celebrating her characterâ??s (and her own) love for jazz.
We revisit my conversation with magician, actor and side-show specialist Todd Robbins, one of the most unusual entertainers in the business. Todd discusses his musical work with Woody Allen, his passion for early jazz, and how he utilizes these interests in his magic shows.
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