Big Noise...From Planet Earth
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJazz and Broadway drummer Rich Rosenzweig combines in-depth interviews with the some of the best freelance musicians in New York City and across the country, and pairs the discussion with his special challenge: each guest must lay down their own improvised tracks over previously recorded drum vignettes created by Rich. No other rules, no boundaries- the sky’s the limit. What follows is a fascinating compare-and-contrast of creative minds. That, along with some illuminating and at times hysterical discussion of the lives and careers of some of the best guns-for-hire in the professional world of music. Season One: Bassists/Duets Season Two: NEW!-Various Instrumentalists/Trios
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Trumpeter Ron Horton 2.27.23
May 01, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB“A whole bag o' mutes...” Trumpeter Ron Horton and I go back 43 years- when we were fresh out of college, dipping our toes into the world of adulthood, and living the bohemian life in funky Washington, DC, amid the birth of the “Me Generation” and the Reagan Era. Immersing ourselves in everything from hard bop to avant-garde jazz, we were part of a local scene that was to propel each of our futures as musicians. After making the intimidating leap to the New York City of the early 80s, Ron’s ...
Guitarist Pete McCann- 12.23.21
January 30, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBPaying for it on the other side… I couldn’t have picked a better way to launch Season Two into its next atmospheric level, than to invite world-class guitarist Pete McCann as my first guest. After a fun, eye-opening, and ultimately inspiring Season One- asking top-tier bassists to record over my drum improvs- I’m now out to see what various musicians can come up with by adding a new layer of tracks over last season’s “duet mash-ups”. What happens when a third voice is thrown into the mix? Pe...
Bassist John Beal- 6.24.21
September 15, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBWhat /Who becomes a bass legend most? How to finish Season One on an ultimate “low” note? It was several of my guests who chimed in- “Ya gotta interview John. He’s a New York legend, has great stories, and, well, you’ve worked with him tons, right?” So here he is- stories of recording with the hippest jazz artists of the late 50s-early 60s, auditioning for Leopold Stokowski for his (now 56th year!) principal bass chair gig with the American Symphony Orchestra, being a Sondheim “rock” on Broa...
Bassist John Hébert- 6.5.21
June 23, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBJust turn on, press record, and play. At about the halfway point in our interview, John casually mentions that he just received word that a record he’s on, “The ReMission”, led by pianist Andy Milne with drummer Clarence Penn, had just won a Juno (the Canadian Grammy). Fact is, John himself has been named several times in the Downbeat Critic’s Poll, as a bassist and leader, and has become over the last decade one of the most sought-after jazz bassists in NYC. He’s an incredibly expressive a...
Bassist Lyles West- 5.25.21
June 11, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MB“Improvisation’s a mysterious thing, man.” In this episode I connect with an old friend- the incredible bassist/composer Lyles West, a luminary of the Dallas jazz scene for 3 decades. Lyles discusses his roots in the backwoods of Lenoir, North Carolina- at 7, performing with his father in an Old Time Mountain band- and his post-college move to Chapel Hill as a member of the local-legend jazz trio “Hands” with the late great Frank Kimbrough. I was lucky to join that band, as we made our journ...
Bassist Darren Solomon- 5.16.21
June 02, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBI don’t need no stinkin’ bass… In the late 90s I toured with jazz harp guru, Park Stickney, and the bassist was the phenomenally talented Darren Solomon. Darren, who a decade earlier had a running start at age 19 touring with Ray Charles, Barry Manilow, and Olivia Newton-John, had by then already been morphing his career into being a studio composer for commercials and film, mastering a variety of other instruments. After losing touch for 20 years, we reconnected, and I discovered he was a f...
Bassist George Farmer- 2.26.21
May 05, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBCovid is a mother of invention… George was more than three years into the run of his fifth Broadway hit, “Ain’t Too Proud…The Life And Times Of The Temptations”, when the pandemic hit. It seemed to take him no time to pick up the slack and start his own Facebook webcast, “George’s Bass Chat”, where he interviews legendary bassists, musicians, and other performers. He remains busy in these barren times for artists, with that and other projects, “staying on the scene like a…” well, he is badas...
Bassist Pete Donovan- 1.29.21
February 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBDisclaimer: I’ve hung out with this guy… Even if he wasn’t a close friend whom I’d played jazz gigs, concerts, and Broadway with, even if he wasn’t generously helping to edit this podcast because he’s one of the most insanely talented dudes I know, Pete would be on my- okay, anyone’s- list, to discuss his amazing career, and to lay down slammin’ bass tracks. Here Mr. Donovan discusses his career of enviable and endless variety, from Juilliard to Broadway, to symphony orchestras to studio wor...
Bassist Bill Moring- 1.13.21
February 23, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MB“Ride the storm, baby…” As soon as I decided to do this project and begin by featuring bassists, I knew I’d want to reune with Bill Moring, who I was super-fortunate to have in my former band, the East Down Septet. As we caught up, it was striking (and humbling) to hear how he started his career playing with the best of the big band drummers, from Indianapolis legend John Von Ohlen, to Mel Lewis, to Dennis Mac...
Bassist Mike Valerio- 9.28.20
December 19, 2020 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBThrowing down some funky bass for a galaxy far, far away... Mike moves across the country to eventually hit it big on the L.A. film, TV, jazz, and musical theater scene. As a first-call studio bass star, it doesn’t get much better than John Williams personally asking you to write your own bass line for some of “The Last Jedi” score.
Bassist Mary Ann McSweeney- 8.31.20
December 19, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBEscaping out her bedroom window to play jazz with the adults... Mary Ann came a long way from her buttoned-down childhood in Santa Cruz, breaking out as a teen asked to sit in with dozens of major jazz artists, to becoming a major sought-after NYC bassist and music educator. She discusses navigating the “new normal”, after the abrupt halt of her current Broadway show, Bob Dylan’s “Girl From The North Country”.
Bassist Lou Bruno- 9.9.20
December 19, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBAn “Out Of The Past” jazz Homecoming, 50 years in the making... Lou discusses his “film noir reunion” with his 1963 Bridgeport, Connecticut high school jazz trio, and also his journey from the Buffalo Philharmonic, to Vienna, Manhattan School of Music, the American Symphony Orchestra, Broadway, and his tenure with the legendary Elaine Stritch.