Jun 26, 2019
This week I chat to producer, bassist, songwriter, documentarian
and president of iconic jazz label Blue Note Records, Don Was about
Wayne Shorter's classic album 'Speak No Evil' (1966). We talk about
how the album gave Don a sense of purpose, that a piece of music
doesn't need lyrics to speak to someone, how great artists seem to
appear from a creative ether and Don explains how engineer Rudy Van
Gelder achieved the classic jazz sound that unifies all Blue Note
albums and how Don aims to continue that legacy by pursuing the
artists' vision.
Plus Don tells me some fantastic anecdotes about his time working
with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Garth Brooks, Benmont Tench and
more.