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David Murray: The Return of the Hero
Hi David, I’d like to start this interview by talking about your latest album, Birdly Serenade. It’s a wonderful way to celebrate your 70th birthday! Oh yes, it is! This year has been fantastic, from the preparation of the album to the story behind its creation and the connection with the theme of birds, all the way to the work done on the lyrics by Francesca Cinelli. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. It’s a way of bringing some order back into my life by using the techniques I’ve developed over the years and my wife’s lyrics. I had never thought about birds from this perspective before. When I was a child, my family used to go hunting. Even my mother would hunt pheasants and quail. Today, hunting is quite an obsolete phenomenon in America. It’s nice that this project has brought things full circle. I know […]
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