Mike Stern: Big Neighborhood

"MM: I was just listening to the tune Moroccan Roll before we started chatting. Are you going to be playing tunes from Big Neighborhood tonight at Catalina Jazz Club? MS: Yeah. That tune was fun for me, because it's got a lot of great players on there. Steve Vai, of course, is really coming from a different place, but he's a fantastic musician. MM: ... Mike, he played for Zappa. I mean ... MS: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a bad dude, man. And a really, really smoking guitar player and really wonderful musician. And Eric Johnson too. Eric's more of a bluesier, blues guy, but man, is he burning. Beautiful, beautiful musician. So that was really fun. But also, Esperanza Spalding. She's so great, and she sang her ass off, and plays unbelievably great bass. ... MM: ... One of the new tunes, Moroccan Roll was inspired from the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. ... MS: Oh yes, it's amazing stuff, amazing music. And he was just a soulful cat, man" (Michael Martin, "Jazz Guitar Legend Mike Stern's Big Neighborhood," Huffington Post, 12/23/10).
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