Like Sergeant Pepper by the Beatles and Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys those artist work with producers to reinvent the recording process they repurpose different takes to create the final recording the one that we know some of the 1st examples of using the studio as an instrument. This is circling around by Miles Davis from 1968. That's one of the 1st times where a jazz recording was made this way here Miles Davis and producer Tioman Ciro worked to seamlessly create this recording with reel to reel tape spices or heads. With albums like Bitches Brew they were using similar techniques of taking live performance and picking bits and pieces of it and collaging them to create what ended up being those classic records McRaven makes his records with an updated take on the miles and Theo method he records performances with his band and when he's listening back. Searches for these moments there's all these different times or the music hooks up or comes apart and goes this way in that when really and I'm credible the amount of musical ideas and moments there and then we'll play around with them finding what works and what catches his ear through the process of kind of going through there and picking out themes and or melodies that connect or are I hear something and then finding a way to make more of a thematic sense out of it more like compositional or memorable rather than just kind of the stream of information the tune we heard at the top of the show Elana black broke it down. Like all of them started with a completely free improvisation. So that's just the broad take of us performing and improvising in front of a live audience now comes the fun part on his computer Makau excerpts pieces from the wrong take you isolate the little nuggets of sound copy paste and reorder to create the 2 of actually cut the track into several little bits and rearrange them so the music will sound the way I would like it to sound or collage in some way that works to like isolate one piece just kind of would sound like this did you catch that let's play it again that's one of the fragments of sound like I was working with in any given song there could be hundreds of these right or this piece. Like puzzle pieces on the larger picture so when I when I put it all together. The original idea still preserved but now there's some structure a kind of disguises the edits with his mixing skills the result isn't a jazz or a slick loop this tracks feel like they're in the moment happening live like Makhaya said earlier. He's editing for. Right this is right that's 3 loops and then to add another phrase. I when I think of what I'm doing and I'm composing using these bits is I'm creating for him an organization out of chaos. Because I walked us through another more subtle example of this technique when listening back he loved the melody heard here on a tenor sax. He loved so much when he was workshopping it decided to repeat. The South Shore cultural center for Red Bull Music Festival Chicago after a short break we'll dig into Mikhail's roots and get to know his parents who just so happen to be musicians themselves this is jazz night in America I'm Christian McBride support for n.p.r. Comes from. The end through w. 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Welcome back to jazz night America McCartney McRaven was born in Paris but raised in western Massachusetts and he was playing drums at a very early age he started really playing and being around drummers. His mother used to grab him out of my bass when I was practicing and crawl and. He played on everything all the time even when he was a baby he would make sounds on everything. And that used to drive me really crazy when he was in elementary school getting the dinner table he would be tapping on things all the time parents even and I really do feel like the opportunity to be immersed musically from a young age and with their guidance and then being so open minded and progressive with the way they approached music from opposites. In their own rights that's a huge inspiration for me is the biggest I always looked at their music as kind of a guiding light and not just the music but their approach and their openness and the way that they cross cultural boundaries. Steven McRaven grew up in a black middle class family in Connecticut but he spent most of this life in Paris he lives there now and as a drummer who plays with saxophonist Archie Shepp. Agnus mother is a Garion Jewish descent She's a retired schoolteacher used to lead a politically outspoken folk band in Hungary they were called the bear was so outspoken that this medley of songs got into a little bit of trouble there are many songs about outlaws in Hungary folk songs about fighting against the Soviet occupation so when we went back home became a problem. In 1970 s. Communist Hungary Kalinda have to submit their touring. Plans and lyrics to be approved by the government once while returning from a trip Agnes was put aside they were watching as they were watching me the authorities took books and music and a phone book that's when the 1st idea came to my mind that I have to leave and then the call in the fell apart I became a solo artist and one of my friends said Why don't you go to France and try yourself out what you can do by yourself and boom I met Steve oh no that's Steven doing a kind of vocal hands flapping body precaution called hambone radio can't do it justice before he met Agnes Stephen toured Europe with Max Roach and saxophonist Marion Browne he got a taste for Parisian life and the free jazz moved he returned home to the States but it wasn't long before his friends encourage them to come back they told me parents needed me so I ended up leaving and going back to Paris start my career and I ran into nothing but magic Steven and Agnes collaborate all throughout Paris building a life on a foundation of artistic exchange I was fascinated by his music and jazz was forbidden in Hungary you couldn't listen to jazz I it was magical I Mrs next year she gave me when I gave her I had to teach you how to feel for for she had to teach me how to feel said when we used to count it like this 1212123 but you could count 812-345-6712 extension 3456 I was beautiful she's amazing musician she's super super super talented singer there are some macabre McRaven was born in Paris in 1903 this is the law by Agnes used to sing to him. Oh. You know I sang several and I tell you they worked with him he would just be quiet and open his mouth and listen by the time a car was to the family a movie. To the states there Steven introduced Makhaya to some of his jazz friends Mike saxophonist Archie Ship One day Archie and McRaven family gave a workshop at an elementary school where the question was really called Blues for the young boy to go. Into this mess March and his 6 year old Makhaya with his pops crap in the Tampa no longer music stations I had rhythm sticks I think that's when played and Steve forgot the drums and that's why he played the music stand Can you believe that it was just a. Through his adolescence my car performed around town with his dad and percussion ensembles but by high school his parents were divorced Stephen moved back to Paris Agnes who had been looking for musicians to play with didn't have to look too far I started to thank. God this guy can play really well why don't you ask him to play for you so I asked him to play for me and he brought his friends along. Because I was in her bed but it didn't last long he says Mom we have doing so well you don't have the time to play for you anymore. When I 1st hired him with me I said Makhaya it's possible that you're going to make it big and I said if you make it famous remember your roots don't ever forget your roots because once you forget your roots you're dead but it's just lately that he's becoming so big and I'm just surprised and I'm just overjoyed and can't believe it he used to be my song that's Agnes's song now I'm a guy's mom Makhaya definitely hasn't forgotten where he comes from remember that lot about Agnes used to sing to a song because I adapted it for the live band live for Red Bull Music Festival Chicago I'm Christian McBride and this is jazz might in America. Written by. Before the Gary. 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I'm Christian McBride Welcome back to Jazz Night in America this hour we've broken down the puzzling way Makhaya McRaven composed and the 2 pillars of his musical childhood his parents they showed him that working as a musician didn't have to be a far off dream it was attainable doable real like I don't know anything else but the last time I had a job that was outside of music was when I was 19 because in his mid thirty's now he lives in Chicago with his wife and their 2 kids like the hard part about being a parent and a husband and traveling is traveling but there's a lot of people that are gone more than I am that maintain families it's not impossible but it is difficult and you have to prioritize how you make your decisions in I try not to make it too different than if I were doing anything else from a car as extended musical family universal beings project he tapped into a sprawling network the project was recorded in 4 sessions in New York Chicago Munden in Los Angeles and then he did a great job of being able to after the fact go in and find specific spots that were really killing. And be able to loop those in a way that sound organic and not just like they're being looped violinist would Ferguson some of my musician friends than even know that that's what had happened to my musician friends to start that's we went in and played and that's what it sounds like bassist. Growing up watching the bulls in Chicago they had this structure with the trying to law fence they knew how to improvise with then it every time so you could never really tell where they were coming from the sounds you call the Triangle every play even though maybe Jordan is the best or Pippin is one of the better players everybody knows the system and so everybody does their part and that's what a team is everybody does their part because nobody can do a. Testament to is the fact that yes he is the leader he's the name behind all of this but he gives everybody the freedom within the structure to almost break the structure with the people on stage is so good everybody being who they are makes everybody else's job much easier. Along with drums caution violin bass we've also got Support for n.p.r. Comes from the. N.p.r. White club everybody story and n.p.r. Shows like Wait Wait Don't Tell me. Available to adults 21 Years or Older learn more at n.p.r. Wind club. And the. Foundation guided by the belief that the arts and humanities are essential to the well being of diverse and democratic societies learn more at Melun dot org This is n.p.r. . 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