Composer and conductor David Sanford talks with Dave about composing for big band and his new record featuring trumpeter Hugh Ragin, on Greenleaf Music, A Prayer For Lester Bowie. Sanford is a brilliant composer with influences in all sorts of nooks and crannies. Also a specialist on the Music of the 1970s, which leads to some interesting thoughts about our not so distant history. In the extra, Dave and David talk about Miles Davis Agartha.

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Edited by Geoffrey Countryman.

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