A Conversation with Chicago’s Lee Loughnane – HuffPost 12.9.11

Mike Ragogna: Yeah, we’ve got Lee Loughnane of Chicago. That’s right. Lee Loughnane: How are you doing, Michael? MR: I’m doing good, how are you sir? LL: I’m doing fine. MR: Nice. Hey Lee, you’re up to Chicago XXXIII–that’s a pretty big number. Who knew you guys would have made so many albums and been together […]

Chicago’s Lee Loughnane – HuffPost 12.9.11

Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists? Lee Loughnane: If this is your passion, do not let go of it and move forward. It’s always going to look like there’s no way you’re going to make it. Trust me, there’s a way, and if you’re intense enough as we were, once you get […]

A Conversation with JB Baretsky – HuffPost 12.9.11

Mike Ragogna: Hey JB, are you there? JB Baretsky: Hey, I’m here. MR: JB, tell us a little bit about yourself. JB: I’m from Long Island, New York, I love jazz and just about anything that has to do with things that happened fifty years ago. MR: And all at four in the morning. JB: […]

Yo-Yo Ma – HuffPost 12.7.11

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Yo-Yo Ma: For new artists, there are two important things. Know yourself, which is hard to do because you keep changing. Who are you? And then also, know the world. And make a relationship between the two.

A Conversation with Mason Jennings – HuffPost 12.7.11

Mike Ragogna: Hello, Mason. How are you? Mason Jennings: Hey, I’m good. Thanks for having me. MR: Your new album, Minnesota, is like your seventh album or something, right? MJ: Yeah, it’s my eighth. MR: (laughs) Exactly, this is like your eighth album, right? MJ: (laughs) Yeah, it was a record that I made in Minnesota […]

Mason Jennings – HuffPost 12.7.11

Mike Ragogna: What kind of advice would you have for new artists? Mason Jennings: Not that I really have any advice, but I think one thing I’ve learned is that there really is no pot of gold out there other than that you get to play music. I think at the beginning, I thought, “If […]

A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma – HuffPost 12.7.11

Mike Ragogna: Today I’m talking with the Julliard-at-nine, Mr. Harvard graduate with an honorary doctorate, and renowned international cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Yo, Yo-Yo. Yo-Yo Ma: Hello, Mike. I only have one regret. I don’t have a solar-powered cello. You have a solar-powered radio station, and that’s very, very cool. MR: (laughs) Thank you very, very […]

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