Tag Archives: Jazz

McCoy Tyner: dance, drums, beauty salons & fourths

Posted on March 12, 2020 by dantepfer

The great McCoy Tyner, giant of jazz, huge influence on me and countless others, died a week ago, on March 6th 2020. Back in 2008, when I was 26, I had the privilege of interviewing him for French magazine Jazzman … Continue reading →

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Doing It Bachwards: my unexpected Goldberg Variations

Posted on August 26, 2014 by dantepfer

(Cross-posted from UCLA’s Ethnomusicological Review. Thanks to AJ Kluth for inviting me to write this piece for the journal.) As I look back over the last ten years and the peculiar journey with J.S. Bach that the time represents for me, … Continue reading →

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