Leonard Feather: Blindfold Test Interviews (audio)

[Mark Stryker]

Wow!!

Composer Steve Lampert just hipped me to Leonard Feather archives at Univ. of Idaho, including 50 raw audio tapes of blindfold tests going back to the 50s. Miles (58), Cannonball & Nat, Dizzy, Art Farmer, Blakey, Duke, Wayne, dozens more.

http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/blindfoldtests/collection/lfc

Edited March 16, 2015 by Mark Stryker

[Mark Stryker]

From the Miles interview:

"Now, it's sickening, because everybody plays the cliches they played 5 years ago and & they're mod-ren (sic) musicians."

Feather: What do you think of the West Coast guys?

Miles: They can have that.

Feather: Is it relaxed emotion?

Miles: I think it's the heat. ... I like Chico; he's a good friend of mine, but his band makes me sick.

Feather: Some of it is not jazz.

Miles: I don't know what it is. I'd rather listen to Raymond Scott's old quintet

Feather: Well, Shorty started out as though he was trying to play like and then I don't know what happened to him.

Miles: That's an insult.

Edited March 16, 2015 by Mark Stryker

[ejp626]

Turtles all the way down.

[Dan Gould]

That looks really cool, thanks Mark!