JAZZ | Peter Margasak
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How much time have you spent playing in Europe in the last year or two? I haven’t really added it up, but I’ve been going several times a year for the last decade. I think last year I was there about three or four months. A number of the projects that make the trips possible are with U.S. musicians, but over the years I have gotten to meet and play with a lot of Europeans. I like to try to play with them there when I’m going to already be there. It also partly comes out of a desire to not spend too much time on planes. So when I have two tours that have a gap in between—if the gap isn’t too long—I let folks I like know, and we try to set up something. Some of those gigs don’t really pay well, but since I’m already in Europe, it makes more sense than coming home for a week or ten days, suffering jet lag and carbon karma, and going back again.
HIP-HOP | Miles Raymer
How was it working with GLC? It was really awesome. It was really cool. We actually had a chance to—he came out to my neighborhood, over where I live by Humboldt Park, and we filmed it in front of my mom’s house. And it was cool—my mom and my aunt were there and they were like, “Man, that GLC is a real nice, smooth guy,” and I was like, “Yeah, he’s a pimp.”
