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Interview With "The Carpenters"
Aired September 21, 2003 - 16:43 ET
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: This is the final day of the 46th annual Monterey Jazz Festival in California. And this afternoon's old fans, new faces program spotlights the crusaders, featuring Randy Crawford. CNN's Maria Hinojosa is covering the jazz fest in Monterey. Maria, you lucky girl.
MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN URBAN CORRESPONDENT: Oh, let me tell I, I am the luckiest woman. For three days now what have been my homework assignments? Put on music in the morning, put on music and light, you know, have great memories, study music. It's just been fabulous.
And I'm joined now by Joe Sample and Will Felder of the Crusaders. You guys have been around a long time. What's it like to be asked to come to a Monterey Jazz Festival? And what you do with the Crusaders embodies so much of African American music across the board.
JOE SAMPLE, MUSICIAN: The Monterey Festival has actually -- this is its 48th year, I believe.
HINOJOSA: 46th.
SAMPLE: The 46th year. I do remember the Newport Festival, which actually it began in the 1950s in Rhode Island. And this was the answer of the west coast. And I've actually played here before. My memories are very, very small today. But I always have a wonderful time here. And it is really a beautiful section of the country.
Of course, when you look around, you see music lovers of every single age.
HINOJOSA: That's right. And every single race. Let me ask you, Will, when you grew up in Houston, Texas, you were listening to jazz as a young boy. Tell me those memories.
WILL FELDER, MUSICIAN: Started out with Art Blakey, and that was -- started me to want to play. And the memories of being able to leave Houston and then to see them and be on the same performance stage with them was great. And I'll never forget it.
HINOJOSA: And for you when you know that you're on stage where Billie Holliday once played, Dizie Gillespie, the jazz greats, do you get chills up and down your spine?
FELDER: I get chills. And I'm building my collection again. I'm getting all the old cads, listening again because it's making me want to play even more so now. HINOJOSA: Now, Joe, part of what you believe is that you're in a role kind of to rescue jazz to make sure that African American music in the broadest tradition is present in American life.
SAMPLE: Well, you know, I see music vanishing in every area of the world now. And I see more of the business side has actually come in and taken over. And we must remember that music came out of the neighborhoods. It was the local people. It was music by and for the people. When I see the educational systems. All of the bigger businesses have taken control of it. It actually saddens me. Give it back to the people.
HINOJOSA: Do you think, though, that a festival like the Monterey Jazz Festival that works with young people is something of an inspiration that's saying, ok, we know this is an American art form, we want to try to make sure it stays present?
SAMPLE: I say the Monterey Festival today as choosing to incorporate all forms of American music. They've always had the folk festival here. Yesterday it was the New Orleans Fest with the Neville's and Zydeco -- with Buckwheat Zydeco. We must embrace all of our music.
There is no one that is more important than the other. It is all a part of the chain.
HINOJOSA: Thank you so much to the members of the Crusaders. We're going to take a look now at what's happening on the main stage. So let's take a dip there. And if I'm not mistaken, these are the members of the Monterey Jazz Festival high school all-star big band with Gary Burton, John and Jeff Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton. Take a listen.
(MUSIC)
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Aired September 21, 2003 - 16:43 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: This is the final day of the 46th annual Monterey Jazz Festival in California. And this afternoon's old fans, new faces program spotlights the crusaders, featuring Randy Crawford. CNN's Maria Hinojosa is covering the jazz fest in Monterey. Maria, you lucky girl.
MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN URBAN CORRESPONDENT: Oh, let me tell I, I am the luckiest woman. For three days now what have been my homework assignments? Put on music in the morning, put on music and light, you know, have great memories, study music. It's just been fabulous.
And I'm joined now by Joe Sample and Will Felder of the Crusaders. You guys have been around a long time. What's it like to be asked to come to a Monterey Jazz Festival? And what you do with the Crusaders embodies so much of African American music across the board.
JOE SAMPLE, MUSICIAN: The Monterey Festival has actually -- this is its 48th year, I believe.
HINOJOSA: 46th.
SAMPLE: The 46th year. I do remember the Newport Festival, which actually it began in the 1950s in Rhode Island. And this was the answer of the west coast. And I've actually played here before. My memories are very, very small today. But I always have a wonderful time here. And it is really a beautiful section of the country.
Of course, when you look around, you see music lovers of every single age.
HINOJOSA: That's right. And every single race. Let me ask you, Will, when you grew up in Houston, Texas, you were listening to jazz as a young boy. Tell me those memories.
WILL FELDER, MUSICIAN: Started out with Art Blakey, and that was -- started me to want to play. And the memories of being able to leave Houston and then to see them and be on the same performance stage with them was great. And I'll never forget it.
HINOJOSA: And for you when you know that you're on stage where Billie Holliday once played, Dizie Gillespie, the jazz greats, do you get chills up and down your spine?
FELDER: I get chills. And I'm building my collection again. I'm getting all the old cads, listening again because it's making me want to play even more so now. HINOJOSA: Now, Joe, part of what you believe is that you're in a role kind of to rescue jazz to make sure that African American music in the broadest tradition is present in American life.
SAMPLE: Well, you know, I see music vanishing in every area of the world now. And I see more of the business side has actually come in and taken over. And we must remember that music came out of the neighborhoods. It was the local people. It was music by and for the people. When I see the educational systems. All of the bigger businesses have taken control of it. It actually saddens me. Give it back to the people.
HINOJOSA: Do you think, though, that a festival like the Monterey Jazz Festival that works with young people is something of an inspiration that's saying, ok, we know this is an American art form, we want to try to make sure it stays present?
SAMPLE: I say the Monterey Festival today as choosing to incorporate all forms of American music. They've always had the folk festival here. Yesterday it was the New Orleans Fest with the Neville's and Zydeco -- with Buckwheat Zydeco. We must embrace all of our music.
There is no one that is more important than the other. It is all a part of the chain.
HINOJOSA: Thank you so much to the members of the Crusaders. We're going to take a look now at what's happening on the main stage. So let's take a dip there. And if I'm not mistaken, these are the members of the Monterey Jazz Festival high school all-star big band with Gary Burton, John and Jeff Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton. Take a listen.
(MUSIC)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
