Thanks for posting this Valerie...saw it at the other board as well.
I had the saxophonist Mark Gross on the show yesterday.
Mulgrew is on his first 2 recordings.
I asked him to talk about him as both a musician & as a person; the answer came back and the entire time (I'm sitting in the studio behind a microphone) was breaking out in goosebumps....very moving, loving, and emotional.
I seeded the earlier part of the program with the purpose of illustrating Mulgrew's brilliance as a supporting player; a sideman.
His albums as a leader comprise a relatively small catalog, and I played from a number of those the week earlier when he suffered the stroke.
I played Mulgrew on albums from Woody Shaw, Greg Osby, Charles McPherson, Gregory Tardy, Dizzy Gillespie All- Stars, Donald Harrison, Dave Holland Sextet , Kenny Garrett, and finally Mulgrew Miller & Wingspan [1987]