2016.02.15 Melvin Gibbs on Lester Bowie 2 of 2

What are the lessons that musicians look to their forebears for?  

How to play the instrument? Certainly. 

Composition? Sure. 

Bandleading? Yes.

What else?

 

What about finding humor in desperation? 

What about embracing life? 

 What about theatricality? 

What about swagger? 

What about making something out of nothing?

What about the things that make people talk about you decades after you have left the planet?  

 

Melvin Gibbs checked out Lester Bowie mighty close and he has something to say about it on this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016.  

 

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