Frank Foster is among many jazz musicians who spent the 1940s and '50s playing jazz and thinking more about getting girls then getting paid. But Foster never planned to live this long. We discuss making a living in jazz.
Guests:
Felix Contreras, NPR music/jazz reporter
Frank Foster, veteran jazz musician; played tenor sax with Count Basie in the 1950s and '60s
Jason Moran, jazz pianist
John Santos, percussionist and composer, specializing in Afro-Cuban Jazz; started Machete Records label in 1984; new CD, Twentieth Anniversary
Maria Schneider, orchestra leader, composer; latest album is Concert in the Garden; won Grammy in 2004
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