New KickStarter Project - The Return Of The Jazz Session!

From 2007-12, The Jazz Session brought you in-depth interviews with jazz musicians. It's time to bring back the show.

Why do musicians do what they do?

Answering that question was at the heart of the 417 episodes of The Jazz Session that aired from 2007-2012. My guests included Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Maria Schneider, John Abercrombie, Robert Glasper, Marian McPartland, Darcy James Argue and hundreds of others. I loved asking questions that got beyond the mechanics and uncovered the passion, the thought, the inspiration behind the music.

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Jazz Composer Vince Mendoza Assembles All-Star Cast For "Nights on Earth" [Exclusive Tracks]

"A composer-arranger at the level of Gil Evans and the similarly eclectic Maria Schneider, Mendoza has delivered a lovely CD, one that's exotic in the best, most worldly sense."

Carlo Wolff, JazzTimes  

Vince Mendoza - Nights on Earth

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After a remarkably productive decade which saw him writing stellar orchestral arrangements for recordings by such popular singers as Bjork, Melody Gardot, Sting and Joni Mitchell (he won two of his six Grammy® Awards and 25 nominations for his contributions to her Both Sides Now in 2000 and Travelogue in 2003), Vince Mendoza has shifted focus back to his own compositions for the first time in 13 years. 

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