That’s what a lot of people do; they practice in a room and they don’t get anywhere. It’s really about practice being life, and life being practice.
~Nicholas Barron
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Interview: Nicholas Barron on Practice(mp3)
Nicholas Barron’s Music:
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- FREE mp3 from As I Am, courtesy of Nicholas Barron: Devil Dog
- videos
- Link to story on the John Martyn tribute album, out this summer.
Mentioned in the Podcast:
- Elvis
- Otis Redding
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Gunther Schuler
- 3rd Stream at New England Conservatory
- John Medeski
- Pat Metheney
- Keith Jarrett
- ii-V
- Berklee
- D add 9/ alternative tunings
- Robert Johnson
- Lightning Hopkins
- Son House
- Ray La Montaigne
- Wes Montgomery
- Sam Cooke
- Stevie Wonder
- Donny Hathaway
- Roberta Flack
- It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Pablo Picasso
- Wynton Marsalis
- Bessie Smith
- Louis Armstrong
- Albert Ayler
- Ornette Coleman
- Cannonball Adderly
- Charlie Parker
- Schubas
- George Benson
- BB King
- Albert King
- Freddie King
- Pat Harbison
- Mike Stern
- Bill Frisell
- Paul Motian
- Chris Siebold
- Howard Levy
- Leonard Cohen
- Grant Green
- Keith Jarrett
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Joni Mitchell
- Suzanne Vega
- Muddy Waters
- R. Kelly
- Tom Gullion
- J.J. Johnson
- Cedar Walton
- David Baker @ IU
- David Gray
- Robert Smith (The Cure)
- Beck
- Phil Collins
- Damien Rice
- Lisa Hannigan
- Beth Orton
- Cheryl Wilson
- Oh My God (band)
Here’s a video of Nicholas singing the song Angeline from the John Martyn tribute record:
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