If you read my bio to the left of this post, you'll learn that Ian McIlraith was key to my understanding and appreciation of jazz. In this episode of Rich Tones, I interview Ian 51 years after we met. I hope you will indulge us for about 30 or 40 minutes of reminiscing and discussing some of the jazz we heard together. Here's a photo of me and him taken on August 31st, 2022, when he was passing through my town and stopped to have breakfast with me.
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I challenge him a few times with some "blindfold tests" to hear how he responds to some songs from our past.
Here is a YouTube selection of Stanley Turrentine playing "Sugar" which is one of the tunes Ian mentioned in the interview.
