Here’s another interview from the archive of the podcast I created in Japan around 10 years ago called The American Radio Show, on which I tried to tap into some of the cultural wealth that passes through Japan, mostly invisibly because the Japanese media is pretty much monolingual.I interviewed astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, movie producer and director Roger Corman, actor and political activist George Takei, composer Philip Glass, jazz musicians Gregory Porter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin; U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki, and a bunch of others.I started out thinking I would interview only visiting Americans, and I got funding from the U.S. Embassy Tokyo to support the project, but then I had opportunities to speak with people like Naoko Yamazaki, and I expanded my brief to “people with a connection to the U.S.A.”; Naoko had, of course, trained with NASA in Houston for years, and she knew what a Hostess Twinkie was. Fumihiko Maki had studied at Harvard, and worked at Washington University in St. Louis (but I’m not sure he knows what a Twinkie is).Today’s post is an interview with Jack DeJohnette. Of all the talented people I interviewed while I produced The American Radio Show, DeJohnette was my favorite. He was so knowledgeable and so thoughtful, I was gripped by our conversation, and I was sorry not to have had more time with him.I hope you find it interesting, and thanks for reading! Subscribing is free, so please feel free to forward to anyone you think may also be interested.