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CALL: 215-600-1850 www.SellMoreTicketsFast.com To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 May-June 2018 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com 5 JI: Is there an underlying process by which you incorporate the older piano styles into your play- INTERVIEWINTERVIEW ing? Is it a conscious effort that you make or a natural creative path that just comes out? DB: I studied Jelly Roll Morton first to actually be a part of the NPR tribute. I started playing Dave Burrell differently because I had the technique from that particular exercise. It became part of the way that Turbulence and Romance I had upgraded my own technique. So I wasn’t conscious of it beyond that fact. I had written a Interview and photo by Ken Weiss from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Burrell’s piece called “A. M. Rag,” which also goes by wife, Monika Larsson, the noted librettist/poet, “Margy Pargy,” where I was playing stride but it Pianist/composer Dave Burrell is a uniquely was present at the time of the interview session. wasn’t encompassing the whole piano, so to an- creative jazz master who combines the entire Burrell was the recipient of lifetime achievement swer that question, I would have to say some- range of jazz’s rich history into his work. Boogie honors at the 23rd annual Vision Festival at Rou- times it’s conscious. I do portraits of people a lot, -woogie, ragtime, stride, bebop, and free jazz lette in Brooklyn from May 23 to 28. and if I’m doing a portrait of a person who has elements can all organically appear during his nothing to do with stride or older styles, you performances and compositions. Burrell was Jazz Inside Magazine: You’re almost alone in wouldn’t find that in the composition. During a born in Middletown, Ohio on September 10, being a current pianist who routinely incorpo- performance, when these styles come out, it’s 1940, while visiting his grandmother. After grad- rates the entire spectrum of jazz and older piano something that I’m not necessarily conscious of. uating from Fisk University in 1938, his parents styles into their playing. What draws you to the For example, when I played duet with Sam moved to the newly built Harlem River Houses in older piano styles? Woodyard we played one of my boogie-woogie Harlem, New York. At the age of four, his family pieces and Sam lit up. He was so comfortable, moved to Cleveland, Ohio where Dave’s father DB: I am an avant garde, free jazz pianist that and I thought, ‘I want to shift, I want the boogie Herman Burrell enrolled at Western Reserve sometimes explores the history of African- to stay here with us but I want to go free now. University for graduate studies in Sociology. American music. I remember, for instance, the What do I do?’ So I started to play the boogie- Right after Herman Burrell received a grant jazz historian Sam Charters came into a jazz club woogie in the opposite direction. I thought, ‘This from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation to finish where I was playing on 6th Avenue in New York is fine, now I’m free. I’ve freed myself and I still his doctoral thesis on race relations at the Uni- City and said to me, “I hear in your playing what sound like I have the original motif going. I have versity of Hawaii, the young family moved to I hear in Jelly Roll Morton’s playing some- Sam right with me.’ I looked up and Sam was so Honolulu, Hawaii in 1946. Music was always a times”. He asked me if I played any of his mu- happy I didn’t want that moment to end. I used part of Burrell’s life. His parents had both been sic. I told him no and he suggested I get a book the boogie-woogie to launch the freedom. Up part of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk University in by James Dapogny with everything that Morton until that point of playing with old-timers that Nashville and were frequently rehearsing for ever wrote transcribed exactly. At the time, would feel so comfortable in that idiom, I never Broadway shows or operas. Additionally, his Charters was contributing to a tribute to Jelly ever thought of making a track on a CD where I mother was a popular radio personality in Ha- Roll Morton in Washington, DC along with NPR would go back to a certain period of jazz. I was waii. The family entertained a number of popular and he wanted to include me. I started playing always thinking of either portraits or situations that I wanted to capture like a painter. “I was a kid living in the country side with horses JI: In the liner notes to your recording The Jelly Roll Joys [1991, Gazell] you say that in regards and plenty of beaches and Hawaiian friends, not to playing Jelly Roll Morton’s music that “Nothing in the jazz repertoire is more challeng- exactly an environment to learn the piano.