Interviews Already Filmed
- Van Jones
Attorney, US media personality, entrepreneur and world-class changemaker - Cornel West
Social and cultural critic and activist - Taj Mahal
Blues icon - Michael Feinstein
Pianist/singer/Gershwin interpreter - Joshua Rifkin
Broadway composer and producer (Hairspray) - Marc Shaiman
Broadway composer and producer (Hairspray) - Al Kooper
Keyboardist/guitarist with Bob Dylan,
Jimi Hendrix, Blood, Sweat and Tears - Nelson George
Author/culture and music critic - Nick Spitzer
Producer/folklorist/host of American Routes - Dick Waterman
Legendary blues impresario and Delta blues artists manager - Marv Schlacter
Record executive at Scepter Records - Sandra Jaffe
Founder of Preservation Hall in New Orleans - Ben Jaffe
Bassist and artistic director of
Preservation Hall - David Ritz
Biographer of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, and others - Mike Stoller
Songwriter/the Leiber and Stoller songwriting team - Nissim Black
Israeli Hassidic rap artist - Robert Cherry
Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brooklyn College/author of Why the Jews? - Klezmer All Star Band
- Dr. Clarence Jones
Lawyer, advisor and speechwriter for
Martin Luther King Jr - Larry Magid
Concert promoter/founder of Electric Factory Concerts - Michael Goldenberg
Son of the owner of Peps Musical Bar in Philadelphia - Shep Gordon
American talent manager, Hollywood film agent, and producer - Ben Sidran
Musician/producer/author of There Was A Fire - T.J. Lubinsky
PBS producer and grandson of Savoy Records owner Herman Lubinsky - Bettye LaVette
Soul singer/songwriter for more than fifty years - David Amram
Composer/musician/conductor who played with Dizzy and Mingus - Sam and Joyce Moore
The duo Sam and Dave/manager - Little Anthony
Little Anthony and the Imperials - Steven B. Ray
Former Sr. Exec. of A&R at Capitol Records - Shelly Berger
Manager of the Temptations - Amani K. Smith and
Kerith Elizabeth Henderson
Music supervisor and producer with
Public Enemy/wife - Ed Eckstine
Former president of Mercury Records - Preston Glass
Producer of Kenny G’s Duotones album - Narada Michael Walden
Producer/songwriter with Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey - Kerry Gordy
Producer and son of Motown icon Berry Gordy
- Michael Eric Dyson
American academic and author - Thomas Friedman
New York Times columnist and author - Bob Margouleff
Legendary engineer and producer of 5
Stevie Wonder albums - Daphne Brooks
Professor of music and African American Studies at Yale - Mitch Greenhill
Musician, composer, record producer,
and author - Herb Spivak
Owner of the Showboat in Philadelphia and a founding partner of Electric Factory Concerts - Steve Jordan
Musical director, producer, songwriter,
and musician - Barry Goldberg
Composer and keyboardist with Bob Dylan and The Electric Flag - Larry Gold
Cellist, arranger, studio owner and producer - Tad Hershorn
Archivist at Rutgers Institute of Jazz/biographer of Norman Granz - James Braxton Peterson
American Author and Professor - Susan Whitall
Music journalist and critic (The Detroit News, Creem magazine) - Al Schackman
Jazz guitarist - Bernard Purdie
American drummer - Tyshawn Sorey
American composer - Ricky Riccardi
Archivist and author at the Louis Armstrong Museum - QDIII
Hip-hop documentarian and son of
Quincy Jones