Interview with Dan Partridge, Jazz Loft Project Research Associate from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.
interview with dan partridge, jazz loft project research associate
Dan Partridge has been working as part of the Jazz Loft Project since 2003. His role as the “professional listener” on staff has entailed listening to and making detailed notes on the thousands of hours of audio recordings made during the period of 1957 to 1965 by legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith. Smith recorded jazz musicians, artists, and friends who passed through his Manhattan loft as well as recording street noise in the flower district, late-night radio talk shows, telephone calls, television and radio news programs. Learn more at http://www.jazzloftproject.org.
Oral History Interview with Bassist Bill Crow from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.
oral history interview with bassist bill crow
In June of 2002, Sam Stephenson and Dan Partridge visited bassist Bill Crow at his home in New City, New York. Crow picked up the two researchers at the bus station in his van, a vehicle he drives because it is large enough to transport his bass to gigs. Stephenson recalls that Crow kept a tuba mouthpiece in his van in order to practice mouthings while driving. During the visit, Stephenson was also struck by Crow’s attentiveness to his backyard birds. Throughout the interview you can hear the sounds of birds chirping and water trickling at a bird bath. Learn more about Bill Crow at http://www.billcrowbass.com/
Oral History Interview with Pianist Joey Massters from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.
In June of 2005 Sam Stephenson and Dan Partridge visited pianist Joey Massters at home in Bellingham, Washington. During his lifetime, Massters played with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, the Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet with Sonny Rollins and the Art Blakey Jazz Messengers. He died in 2007.