Come and meet two great guys

Click here to meet two great jazz guys.

The interviewer, Jason Crane, invented The Jazz Session podcast, which reliably hooks us up with another great jazz musician every week.  He is a master interviewer who brings to every session the energy of a passionate and articulate enthusiast, coupled with the knowledge and sensitivity of a highly skilled musician (a wonderful soprano sax player).

The interviewee in this case is Mike Melito, our drum faculty guy for Jazz at Naz 2009.  The wide-ranging, half-hour interview covers everything from Mike’s early training in the School of Hard Bop to his decision to remain a big fish in the small Rochester jazz pond rather than migrating lemming-like to NYC, a place where he could surely hold his own with the swingingest of drummers.

Both of these guys are doing what they love–Jason behind a microphone, Mike behind a drumset–and it shows.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we do and support them whenever you can.