# Don Menza

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The Don Menza Interview

"Close your Eyes and Open your Ears," says Don Menza. Don is a non-conformist - a man who was raised by Italian Farmers and grew up in the gutbucket of Buffalo, NY. (Upstate NY was a haven for jazz cats like Nistico and Noto) He is interested in people who think for themselves. When a student asks…

Don Menza Live On The Jake Feinberg Show

Shaman Horn Player Interviewed From His Home In North Hollywood, CA From November 2018

The Pete Magadini Interview Set II

I am joined by drummer Pete Magadini who spent time in North India under the direction of Manaparush Misra learning the complexities of polyrhythms via the tabla. Pete came back and made some stunning albums in the mid-seventies with the likes of Don Menza and George Duke incorporating these simult…

Episode #21 - Bill Reichenbach

Bill Reichenbach grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland where he studied trombone with Gene Brusiloff and Robert Isele. After high school, Bill was accepted to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. There, he studied with the great Emory Remington. While still …

Notice

How do you teach students to read music? For Margaret Jenks, it’s about teaching them that they already know how to. Jenks roots her teaching in attention: noticing rhythm, noticing patterns, noticing absence, and most importantly, noticing each other. The best teachers do not work from a checklist…

Episode 28: “Scrolling Down the Leader Board”

A band leader sampler. Veteran sidemen Eddie Bert, Peter Erskine, Don Menza and Marshall Allen provide inside stories about Glenn Miller, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Sun Ra and Joe Zawinul. Maria Schneider weighs in on the role and responsibility of a leader.

Isaac McMahon

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond Artless, we sit down with Isaac McMahon, band director at Brookings High School in South Dakota—a musician, educator, and all-around interesting human whose journey to the podium includes farms, baseball no-hitters, homemade hot sauce, and at least one ext…

"Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" by Megadeth

Kirk surfs an avalanche straight into Thrash Valley, where he delves into the depths of Megadeth's 1990 opus "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due." It's an unstoppable rockslide of layered riffs, tempo shifts, power chords, and... power thirds? Written by: Dave Mustaine Album: Rust in Peace, 1990 Li…