Best Of: Pianist Jason Moran / Author Andre Dubus III
Fresh Air
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4.4 • 34.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. |
| 0:05.6 | Today, the great pianist Jason Moran joins us at the piano. |
| 0:09.6 | When he was a child, he studied classical music |
| 0:11.9 | through the Suzuki method, |
| 0:13.4 | but his music life changed when he heard the lonius monks |
| 0:16.5 | round midnight. |
| 0:17.8 | I'll play the first opening phrase. |
| 0:20.8 | Okay, nothing in Suzuki sounds like that. |
| 0:30.4 | Just nothing sounds like that. |
| 0:36.7 | And then it gets to one of the most incredible melodies. |
| 0:41.3 | Aran's latest album is his take on the music of James Reese Europe. |
| 0:45.2 | And we'll hear from writer Andre Debuse, |
| 0:47.4 | his new novel Such Kindness, |
| 0:49.6 | asks how a person can get on with life |
| 0:52.1 | after an accident that leads to disability |
| 0:54.8 | and flames of chronic pain. |
| 1:00.2 | That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. |
| 1:04.8 | This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Terry Gross. |
| 1:07.8 | Joining me at the piano is a terrific musician and composer, |
| 1:12.2 | Jason Moran. The first time I interviewed him in 2005, |
| 1:16.2 | when Moran was 30, I quoted our jazz critic, Kevin Whitehead, |
| 1:20.1 | who called him one of those rare up-and-comers |
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