Radio Free Chip Archives - Positive Feedback https://positive-feedback.com/category/radio-free-chip/ A Creative Forum for the Audio Arts Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:10:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Radio Free Chip June 2019 - Hal Blaine https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-june-2019-hal-blaine/ https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-june-2019-hal-blaine/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:43:05 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=37536 "A dozen of his favorite drummers were me." Hal Blaine Listening and the Art of Drumming… I remember, over the course of an extended sit down with Jim Hall back in the day, for a JazzTimes cover story, how off-putting this master guitarist found what he characterized to be a track meet mentality he sometimes... Read More »

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]]> https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-june-2019-hal-blaine/feed/ 0 Radio Free Chip - A Brief Assignation with Clark Terry, December 14, 1920 - February 21, 2015 https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-clark-terry/ https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-clark-terry/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:30:04 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=27204 Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. - Charles Mingus Years ago my friend, the British guitarist Robert Fripp (of King Crimson renown), found the time for a brief assignation at a Greenwich Village bistro. Over lunch, when I inquired as to how his visit to Manhattan was... Read More »

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]]> https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-clark-terry/feed/ 0 Radio Free Chip https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-2/ https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-2/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:26:35 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=22006 Confession is Good for the Soul Those few pilgrims who've remained in touch, and kept up to date with RADIO FREE CHIP's infrequent musings, might just recollect how a persistent and recurring theme of recent columns centered around how contented I was with my rig, how my system had evolved to the point where I... Read More »

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]]> https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/radio-free-chip-2/feed/ 0 Elliott Carter - A Personal Recollection by Radio Free Chip https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/elliott-carter-a-personal-recollection-by-radio-free-chip/ https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/elliott-carter-a-personal-recollection-by-radio-free-chip/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:29:41 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=20188 There's an old adage folks like to dust off whence we suffer some loss, as wrenching as it is inexplicable, not unlike a late April ice storm, midst that initial gush of springtime bloom, which heretofore has served to affirm the promise and wonder of life and renewal after such a long, harrowing winter: "They... Read More »

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]]> https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/elliott-carter-a-personal-recollection-by-radio-free-chip/feed/ 0 Segovia - The Blue Guitarist https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/segovia-the-blue-guitarist/ https://positive-feedback.com/radio-free-chip/segovia-the-blue-guitarist/#respond Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:26:28 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=19698 RADIO FREE CHIP Ourselves in the tune as if in space, Yet nothing changed, except the place - Wallace Stevens The guitar is a small orchestra.  It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andrés Segovia In January of 1987, Andrés Segovia embarked on what turned out to be his... Read More »

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