Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Bay Area Jazz Saxophonist Raffi Garabedian .. We get into his new 2024 CD The Crazy Dog. The first single, "A Mother's Letter,"  .. in his own words: It was the first song I composed for this project. Adapted from a poem my grandmother wrote, the melodic and harmonic structure emotes a somber mood, embodying her painful life growing up as an orphan, fleeing Turkey during the Genocide, and carrying this trauma into a foreign land where she struggled to raise her family. To me, the words reflect her love and distress for my father. For this Berkeley-reared musician, music is both a calling and a vehicle for exploring his family’s star-crossed past. Dig his story…

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