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July 22, 2009
The Marriage of Classical and Jazz, part 1
Pianist Bill Mays has had an illustrious career mixing jazz improvisation with classical composition, and his albums in the third-stream movement have helped move the genre forward. Here we talk about the relationship between classical and jazz, and about Mays' history with both, starting with the night he heard Miles Davis live in the late 1950s. (8 mins.)
