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Creative Legends of the DMV
Creative Legends of the DMV episodes
- Duke Ellington: Birth of the Real Cool
Edward "Duke" Ellington was a master of contemporary jazz and the piano. His compositions, songs, and scores, cover 50 years of American music. In this episode, Evan muses over Elington's influence over music and how his life played out guided by the muses. In his usual wayward style, Evan uses Ellington's life to discuss how music has changed yet stayed the same with its ever changing dynamic while highlighting certain tracks from Ellington's life that showed his ever evolving style from the 1920s to the 1970s.
32 min - Fat Nave: Not a Legend
Fat Nave is Evan Taff. Evan Taff is Fat Nave. The first episode of this podcast introduces Evan Taff, the host and moderator of Creative Legends of the DMV. A brief framework is introduced for the scope of the podcast and its episodes and Taff's own background as a musician, currently branded as Fat Nave, and a writer and filmmaker growing up in Montgomery County, MD.
You can hear the music of Fat Nave on various music apps and at:
www.fatnave.com
www.facebook.com/fat-nave33 min
About Creative Legends of the DMV
From the publisher's feed
The DC area known as the DMV has had some wildly creative people born or developed their creativity in the area. From Emmylou Harris to Fugazi or from Link Wray to Logic and Wale. Eduardo Sanchez…
developing and changing the horror genre with The Blair Witch Project. The birthplace of comedy legend Dave Chappelle and many others that have contributed to a constant legacy of creative people coming out of the DMV. You will hear interviews with artists and creative people from the area and about stories of how songs and groups came to be, cautionary tales of incredibly innovative and talented musicians you may or may not have heard of, as well as stories about venues and screenwriters and filmmakers and creative people getting their ideas for their works and/or growing up in the area and have that being a direct influence on their creativity.