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So if Sparky Anderson had a jazz avatar, who would it be? Red Rodney?

I interviewed Peter Apfelbaum, Charlie Hunter, and Steven Bernstein for a Jewish themed radio show at KZSU Stanford in recent years -- programmed by Sara Bellum and Raya Zion variously. I had Glenn Hartman of the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars come in and play live and be interviewed once, as well. I also brought in Mark "Stew" Stewart the creator of the Broadway show "Passing Strange" to play and discuss his show -- not Jewish but was a hot topic and within arms reach -- I made sure to ask him about his work in progress (with Heidi Rodewald -- not sure of her ethnicity) about Black-Jewish relations working title "We Can See Tomorrow". The shows are archived but am not sure whether to bother posting them or transcribing them. Oh, yeah, I also interviewed Don Byron for the same show, on the strength of his work with Klezmer. I always tried to define "Jewish" very broadly... Steve Lacy, in New York Times, at least once referred to himself as a "jewgitive" I think --combination of "Jew" and "fugitive" -- he had been living in France for so long, and on the run. Ok, "Jewgitive is also a composition and performance on "Sands" from 1998 on Tzadik...

Hopefully next will be cover of Time...or appearance on Tonight Show