Mike Stern Video Interview
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Making another welcome visit to London last year, to perform at Ronnie Scott's in 2007, Mike Stern took time out to talk to Jazzwise about his latest album, Who Let The Cats Out? that features a stunning cast of musical friends including Roy Hargrove, Richard Bona, Dave Weckl, Jim Beard, Victor Wooten, Anthony Jackson and Meshell Ndegeocello on Stern's strongest studio set for years.
A guitar legend in his own right, Mike Stern has cut his own jazz-rock post bop path since his heady days with Billy Cobham, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Miles Davis in the 1980s, through to working with the jazz A-list throughout the 1990s and becoming a fully-fledged solo artist to the present day.
Always hugely enjoyable to talk to Stern gives a candid and funny interview talking with great humility about his own approach to music, his new album and working with Miles Davis; and being a New Yorker his phrases can be a tad colourful, but his humour and candour are compelling and insightful.