Interview
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“Playing these standard pieces on period instruments is a little bit like reading a novel or poem in its original language.”
“Being an independent musician is kind of like having an organic farm.”
Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.
“Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe.”
“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”
We’re reminding everyone that fighting corruption and injustice is hard work, but it can be fun as hell too.
“The purpose of the film is to take the audience on what I hope will be a riveting, challenging, and ultimately uplifting journey into the world of human trafficking.”
Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur are still mining America’s musical traditions.
A subject as potentially grim and dry as writing an obituary is transformed into a moving look at language, inquiry, and the art of story-telling.
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