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I know it's possibly a bit of a hard find but I'm looking for some 'old joe'
types talking about music and how it makes them feel, about having soul
etc.

I've literally thrawled through lots of jazz interviews and can't find anything
near what I'm looking for. Maybe someone can help?

I'm open to suggestions at this stage, so anything around that theme is good

there was a real sweet documentary on james brown with interviews with bootsy collins, etc.... and there were some great samples, i'm sure they will be running it again soon.....i saw it about 2 weeks ago??---good luck--peace.

Look up Ken Burns' "Jazz" documentary. It'll have what you need.

Check out Alan Lomax' recordings. He was a music ethnologist recording all different kinds of "traditional" music, from black prison blues to calypso from trinidad to spanish folklore and much more. I listened to his "Calypso at mid-night" recording a lot and before every song the artists are talking a while about themselves, their country and their music. Could be an interesting source for samples i guess.

Step one, home in a target...

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april96/loc/04c-arms.html

http://www.digital-librarian.com/africanamerican.html

http://www.redhotjazz.com/

Then try specifics and keywords, I came across an interview on a wax cylinder or old phonograph of Mississippi delta blues talking and playing but I can't find it now. There is a few documentaries like that with jazz and blues musicians talking, check youtube and archive for videos too.

Then check archive.org they have a 78rpm section might have some old stuff of interest. If I find them in the next 20 minutes I'll come back and post a link.

Multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk can be heard talking about music on a radio show he produced in 1973 (broadcast on NPR in 1984) called "Radio Free Rahsaan" (though I don't know if you can find it on the web).

8 programs were produced, here's the content of #1:

1973 Intermedia Studios, Newbury Street, Boston, MA
Rahsaan Roland Kirk dj

Memories of Rahsaan - Comments by:
Les Scher, Mark Davis, Ronnie Scott, Vi Redd,
Ron Burton, Max Gordon, Pete King 15:14 NPR Radio Broadcast

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #1
( talk ) 3:33 --
a. Sweet Emma - Down In New Orleans 4:36 --
( talk ) 1:01 --
b. Sonny Rollins - Strivers Row 5:46 --
c. Paul Blackburn - There Will Never Be
Another You 1:00 --
( talk ) 1:49 --
d. Thad Jones and Mel Lewis - Once More 4:25 --
( talk ) 2:01 --
e. Big Maybelle - Gossip Blues 2:33 --
f. Duke Ellington – You’re Just An Old
Antidisestablishmentarianismist
(vocal by Ray Nance) 2:40 --
( talk ) 0:47 --
g. Paul Robeson - Every Time I Feel The Spirit 1:45 --
( talk ) 4:07 --
h. Clifford Brown - You're A Lucky Guy 3:01 --
i. Art Farmer - Unknown Title 4:14 --
( talk ) 2:17 --
j. Tuskegee Institute Choir - Deep River 3:11 --
( talk ) 0:54 --
k. Art Tatum – Tiger Rag 2:12 --
l. McCoy Tyner - Unknown Title 4:11 --
( talk ) 2:24 --

Album cuts by RRK:
m. Roland Kirk - On The Corner Of King
And Scott Streets 4:41 --
n. Roland Kirk - 3 -In -1 Without The Oil 2:32 --
o. Roland Kirk - A Stritch In Time 5:04 --

Notes: Broadcast 84-1007.

These 8 one hour programs were not aired at the time they were recorded. In 1984 Dorthaan Kirk and Steve Robinson produced this series with funding from the National Public Radio's Satellite Program Development Fund. The 8 programs, with additional material added, were broadcast on WBGO-FM and other NPR radio stations on consecutive Sundays beginning October 7, 1984.

A test show was done at WCRB-FM, Waltham, MA, prior to these programs.

hammerklavier, you're lucky that you had the chance to see him live! I was a three year old kid in Austria when he passed away so, no, I never saw him but I bought all his recordings and traded live shows to get an idea what he was about. No comparison to a live experience of course. There's a recording from 1972 at the Jazz Workshop in Boston that blows your head off!

Where and when did you see him?

PS: Sorry about being off topic.

Where did you see him? Chicago? I know what you mean about approaching musicians - have done that, too. Hell, have there been some embarrassing moments.

Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uRnvMwD6jM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0JJmwq7KXQ