This is the transcript to my interview with Sara Caswell; the podcast and video versions are linked here.

I was honoured to have this opportunity to record this conversation with the phenomenal violinist Sara Caswell, who is a GRAMMY Nominee for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo. We focused on the recent 9 Horses album, Strum with mandolinist and composer Joseph Brent, and she also spoke to me about some of her other collaborators including esperanza spalding, Chuck Owen, Nadje Noordhuis, and mentors including David Baker, Mimi Zweig and Josef Gingold. She shared how she started playing the 10 stringed Hardanger d’amore, her rich early musical life in Bloomington, and how she is grounded and inspired from her family and friends. 

Complete transcript of interview with the jazz violinist, mandolinist, arranger and writer Aaron Weinstein. The episode in podcast and video formats is linked to this transcript.

Leslie DeShazor shares valuable perspectives that educators, parents and anyone who mentors children and young adults will find inspiring and thought-provoking. We talked a lot about why kids quit playing music, why so many young adults today have trouble figuring out the direction of their life, and how the educational system can take away people’s innate creativity and confidence. Leslie DeShazor is a multi-style violist, violinist and composer based in Detroit. She teaches students both through the Sphinx Organization and the Detroit Symphony as well as privately. She was named one of thirty Professional Movers and Shakers in the Performing Arts by Musical America in 2019 and in 2022 she released her jazz and R&B album “Journey With Me” which features herself as soloist, bandleader, and composer.

Transcript for the in-depth interview with the multi-style violinist/vocalist, author, composer, producer and educator Julie Lyonn Lieberman.

Full transcript of E1 S2 Eva Slongo Conversations with Musicians with Leah Roseman, available both podcast and video: her journey from the Classical violin world to jazz, how she got started with her online courses, studying with Pierre Blanchard, Joan Renard, Didier Lockwood, her new album, balancing family life, challenges for women in jazz, her creative process.