Raoul roach biography sample
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NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
Edited Oral History Transcript
Raul E. "Ernie" Reyes
Interviewed by Carol L. Butler
Titusville, Florida 1 September
Butler: Today is September 1, This is an interview with Ernie Reyes, in Titusville, Florida. The interviewer is Carol Butler, and this is being done for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project.
Okay. I think we're all set to go. Thank you for agreeing to do this with us.
Reyes: Well, like I said, no problem. I'm still alive to talk to you, so I guess that's better. I wanted to show you a few things that have been written. [Referring to a book] Everybody's aware of the appointment, the Apollo 13 mission. Had some of the key producers and the astronaut in charge give us a call and we assembled a whole bunch of guys, which was the first group of guys to find out what went on with the mission, what was peculiar about it, except, obviously, Ernie Reyes is "Ernie Reyer,"
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4 - 2 = 2, Beginning To Play With Balanco (Brasilian Swing)
When I first started ansträngande to play Brazilian Jazz, there wasn't a manual, no method book, no songbooks, very few available recordings. It was a time before the internet and, everything that's now available, wasn't. It was like the time in Jazz before the Real Book was printed we had to figure things out bygd listening, as strange as that now sounds. This time around, instead of posting about a particular band, I thought inom would discuss one of the first things I learned about playing Brazilian Jazz.
It was May of I had arrived in Rio de Janeiro at A.M. on an overnight flygning from New York on Varig Airlines. I was there to play a five-night-a-week, three week gig at the #1 Jazz club in Rio, People Jazz
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The Independent Ear
A select Who’s Who on the contemporary DC area jazz scene
By Willard Jenkins
Along with colleagues Blair Ruble, Prof. Maurice Jackson, Rusty Hassan and others I recently had the pleasure of participating as one of the writers in a new issue of the Washington Historical Society’s magazine focusing on DC’s rich jazz history. You can visit that issue at the following link:
Washington, DC, actually a metropolitan region in and of itself when you consider its Maryland and Virginia environs, is rich in jazz history. The current wealth of contemporary jazz talent that resides in the DMV (DC-Maryland-Virginia) and performs around the area, with the most kinetic activity squarely within the confines of DC itself, is robust.
The following series of capsule profiles reflect the level of jazz talent affluence this area enjoys, focusing on a mere percentage of the exceptional musicians living and performing in our midst. Contributors all, we’ve chosen to break these art