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12:17 pm
Thu June 2, 2011
A Lost Jazz Legend Remembered
- Host Frank Stasio talks with filmmaker Lorenzo DeStefano about the film he made of Farlow's life, and with Farlow's widow Michele Hyk Farlow in advance of what would have been the musician's 90th birthday.
In his heyday in the 1940s and '50s, jazz guitarist Greensboro native Tal Farlow wowed the Down Beat crowd, playing with Charles Mingus, Red Norvo and the like. His large hands and his intrinsic sense of harmony distinguished him from his contemporaries. Farlow walked away from the jazz scene in the late 1950s, but he never let go of his love for the music.