Nat Hentoff's guest appearances

Nat Hentoff

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

Piano Jazz Shorts

JazzStories

Cato Daily Podcast

Jazz Beat

WUOT JAZZ

The Jake Feinberg Show

Ira Gitler

Chester Thompson

Steve Brown

Michael White

Abigail Washburn

Bela Fleck

Alan Broadbent

Jeff Sipe

Steve Swallow

Bill Frisell

Elon Musk

LeBron James

Bernie Sanders

Fannie Mae

Bret Weinstein

OwlTail

"Don't Categorize" By Duke Ellington  by Nat Hentoff My oldest friend in music, Charles Mingus, never used the word jazz. He said, I play "Mingus music." Duke Ellington who I got to know when I was quite young and was my mentor never used the word "jazz." He didn't like terminology. He gave me a lesson when I was very young. He said, "don't categorize the music. Dont use terms like "cutting edge jazz and "old time jazz". You go to each musician and you open yourself to what that particular player is telling you in his music. I used to know John Coltrane very well. He had the sense that his music and everything he was doing was a world music. He was in a world consciousness. He would listen for hours, not just Indian music he was listening to African Tribal Music way back which was recorded. It all becomes part of the will to be yourself collectively and individually. What I do on Linear Notes and have always done - where does the music come from? From the musician and himself, his life, what he wanted to say in the music.  You talk to these people as if you were at a bar.  So my linear notes like my books on music are what musicians tell me. So I'm not a critic, Im a reporter. Max Roach: I was privileged to be the A&amp;R man for Max Roach's "Freedom Now Suites." That's just when the Freedom Rides were going down south. We were all in the studio and afterwards as soon as the record was released we were banned in South Africa so we figured we'd done something. Duke Ellington used to say to me, "Im writing about my people in these songs." If you listen to the blues singers carefully, they were singing about what society was like @ that time as well as their own blues. Jazz is an awakening form and what I call "the spirit of this country."

"Don't Categorize" By Duke Ellington  by Nat Hentoff My oldest friend in music, Charles Mingus, never used the word jazz. He said, I play "Mingus music." Duke Ellington who I got to know when I was quite young and was my mentor never used the word "jazz." He didn't like terminology. He gave me a lesson when I was very young. He said, "don't categorize the music. Dont use terms like "cutting edge jazz and "old time jazz". You go to each musician and you open yourself to what that particular player is telling you in his music. I used to know John Coltrane very well. He had the sense that his music and everything he was doing was a world music. He was in a world consciousness. He would listen for hours, not just Indian music he was listening to African Tribal Music way back which was recorded. It all becomes part of the will to be yourself collectively and individually. What I do on Linear Notes and have always done - where does the music come from? From the musician and himself, his life, what he wanted to say in the music.  You talk to these people as if you were at a bar.  So my linear notes like my books on music are what musicians tell me. So I'm not a critic, Im a reporter. Max Roach: I was privileged to be the A&amp;R man for Max Roach's "Freedom Now Suites." That's just when the Freedom Rides were going down south. We were all in the studio and afterwards as soon as the record was released we were banned in South Africa so we figured we'd done something. Duke Ellington used to say to me, "Im writing about my people in these songs." If you listen to the blues singers carefully, they were singing about what society was like @ that time as well as their own blues. Jazz is an awakening form and what I call "the spirit of this country."

The Nat Hentoff Interview 

The world lost the great civil libertarian, journalist, and Cato scholar Nat Hentoff last week. Scott Bullock comments on his several legacies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The world lost the great civil libertarian, journalist, and Cato scholar Nat Hentoff last week. Scott Bullock comments on his several legacies. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Remembering Nat Hentoff

Ken White

Ken White has made a name for himself in First Amendment circles for his particularly astute and often comical commentary on free speech issues for the popular “law, liberty, and leisure” blog ‘Popehat.’ An attorney by day, Ken likes to use his considerable legal chops—he’s a 1994 graduate of Harvard Law School—to take a rhetorical axe to what he sees as facile arguments in favor of censorship. Ken is our guest on today’s episode of “So to Speak.” We talk with him about his list of the worst censors of 2016 and spend some time remembering the life of a giant in the free speech world, Nat Hentoff, who passed away this past weekend. Ken also explains how he successfully uses the “Popehat Signal” to rally attorneys to provide pro bono assistance to people wrapped up in free speech legal battles. www.sotospeakpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/freespeechtalk Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast Email us: sotospeak@thefire.org Call in a question: 215-315-0100

Ken White has made a name for himself in First Amendment circles for his particularly astute and often comical commentary on free speech issues for the popular “law, liberty, and leisure” blog ‘Popehat.’ An attorney by day, Ken likes to use his considerable legal chops—he’s a 1994 graduate of Harvard Law School—to take a rhetorical axe to what he sees as facile arguments in favor of censorship. Ken is our guest on today’s episode of “So to Speak.” We talk with him about his list of the worst censors of 2016 and spend some time remembering the life of a giant in the free speech world, Nat Hentoff, who passed away this past weekend. Ken also explains how he successfully uses the “Popehat Signal” to rally attorneys to provide pro bono assistance to people wrapped up in free speech legal battles. <a href="http://www.sotospeakpodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sotospeakpodcast.com</a> Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://www.twitter.com/freespeechtalk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/freespeechtalk</a> Like us on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast</a> Email us: <a href="mailto:sotospeak@thefire.org">sotospeak@thefire.org</a> Call in a question: 215-315-0100

Ep. 19 Ken White of ‘Popehat’ Talks Nat Hentoff, Worst Censors of 2016

Randy Fishman

Randy interviews jazz critic legend Nat Hentoff, from 2007,

Nat Hentoff interview by Randy Fishman