doodlinlounge's Podcast

This is the interview I recorded with Red Holloway for an episode of my Doodlin'Lounge radio show - this podcast contains no music. The interview was done on March 2, 2008. Red and I talk about the music from his self-produced CD 'Something Old Something New' which is available on CDBaby. Hope you like it...

It seems that everyone in Oklahoma knows about Jeremy Thomas - now it's time for the rest of the world to find out about this great talent. Jeremy is one of those rare souls blessed with an enormous musical gift. He plays monstrous drums (just ask Joey DeFrancesco) and zings across the manuals of a Hammond organ like he's been at it for forty years. In this, his first visit to my Doodlin'Lounge, we talk with Jeremy about his blossoming career and listen to music from a recent live recording.

It's always nice to hear a fresh, new voice on the trumpet. It seems that great young brass players are poppin' up all over the US and around the world. Keyon Harrold is a fabulous trumpet player who debuted on the Criss Cross label in 2009 but is steadily developing his resume. His voice is distinct and his chops are for real. Listen to a few tracks from his new release and more!

Mel was another one of the great jazz organists from the late 50's on who fell by the way side as the high tech keyboards became increasingly popular in the mid-seventies-through-the-eighties. His reputation as an organist sprang from his initial association with guitarist Wes Montgomery but soon blossomed into a respectable departure from the innovator Jimmy Smith. Mel played with an original albeit pianistic approach. In this episode we hear Mel talk about the days with Wes but also the resurgence of his career in the early nineties.