Welcome Michael Beinhorn to the Compared To What POdcast family. For those of you who don’t know who Michael is, here’s a brief rundown. A young boy in Queens sells ice cream from a cart, saves his money, buys a micro-moog. He then meets Bill Laswell and helps make one of the most important sampling/synth/drum programming records ever with Herbie H…

Part 2 of the Tommy LiPuma and Matt Pierson Conversation. The fellas get started RIGHT where they left off. More stories from an incredible life in music. Tommy Lipuma!By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Episode 27 had Matt Pierson joining the CTWP family when he sat down with Charlie and told some incredible stories. Now we get the absolute joy of having a former guest sit down with a new member of the CTWP crew. Matt sat down with music business legend Tommy Lipuma. Tommy has produced so many artists its hard to break it down. George Benson , Dia…

Question: Who has worked with Miles Davis,Roger Troutman,Marcus Miller,Meshell NdegeocelloJesse J,Kelly Clarkson and written 12 tone music/dodecaphonic jams with disco breakdowns? Answer: The one and only David Gamson! (If you answered correctly please proceed to the bonus round!) David Gamson is a song writer/Producer who first came to fame as a m…

Johnny Vidacovich is a legend in New Orleans. Name any artist down there and he’s probably worked with them. He’s an Educator , a Poet , a philosopher and probably the only drummer we can think of that breathes like a horn player when playing through the melody. This year during some time down in New Orleans for a gig Charlie got to sit down with h…

This episode marks the very first time we’ve opened up the show to a guest host. Please welcome Bassist,Producer and good friend Greg Bryant to the CTWP family. Very happy to have him sit down with Charles “Wigg” Walker…….take it away Greg! Charles Walker is a soul singer and native of Nashville, Tennessee. He came up through the ranks and earned h…

How do you start off a new year of episodes?? With a bang so without further ado please welcome…….(Cue dramatic Las Vegas show room tympani roll)…..Marcus Miller to the Compared To What Podcast Family. Mowo! sits down with Marcus and the two cover a wide range of topics. The two have been friends since late 1986. Mowo! first reached out to Marcus a…

Your fearless leaders meet up again in Los Angeles and discuss a world of topics. A state of the union if you will. CTWP is rapidly approaching its first birthday and Charlie and Mowo! sit down to discuss what’s coming,what’s happened and government cheese. Charlie happens to be in LA playing with his good buddy, drummer Scott Amendola so why not t…

Howard Smiley……..what can we say? He was so behind the scenes in the record business that the only photo we could find of him is one in the kitchen of him making some fried matzoh! Without further ado let us introduce you to Mr. Howard Smiley the man behind the man next to the guy behind the guy…….but don’t let his anonymity fool you. Howard worked…

Joining us this week is the incredible pop songwriter and actual writer,writer Shelly Peiken.She recently had a piece on Huffington Post cause a big stir and her blog “Confessions Of Serial Songwriter” (she’s also writing a book with the same title) http://www.shellypeiken.com/confessions-of-a-serial-songwriter/ is a read you’ll always look forward…

Leo Sidran, musician, producer, and composer SORT of joins the show this week. You see, Leo is the host of an incredible podcast called “The Third Story” and he got in touch with us recently with a brilliant idea to have a conversation about our two shows and each other. Mowo! took the call and sat down in Brooklyn at Leo’s studio. Leo’s father is …

Charlie sits down with Vernon Reid in a bookstore in Staten Island or “North Shaolin” as Vernon calls it. You probably know Vernon as the driving force behind the incredible band Living Colour . Charlie and Vernon touch on a wide ranging variety of topics including Vernon having given Charlie one of his first big gigs opening up for Living Colour. …

Peter Bunetta joins “the merry mix up” this week here at Compared To What. Peter has produced many hit records from the mid 80’s on. Patti Labelle , Smokey Robinson , Kenny G. (Just remember the classic W.C. Field’s line from the mother of the little obnoxious girl in “The Bank Dick” …”I bet you’d like a nose that big full of nickels!” ) , Matthew …

Al Kooper and Charlie Hunter get together and Al makes Charlie an amazing hotdog. They chomp on chips and talk about ………..well we don’t wanna get ahead of ourselves. Let’s welcome Al Kooper to The Compared To What Podcast. For those of you who know Al Kooper no real introduction is needed. For those of you who do not you are about to hear from one …

Mtume….Musician,Producer,Composer,Political Activist,Radio Show host. Mtume is not someone that can be put in one box. That’s just not gonna happen. Mowo! had the absolute pleasure of being able to sit down with Mtume after Mtume finished his weekly radio show. 8am on a Sunday morning in NYC made MOWO! think of the famous Lenny bruce bit where Lenn…

Steve Berlin learned it the right way. Some of you may know Steve from his being a member of Los Lobos. He’s also been a member of The Blasters and Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs. He was born in Philly and subsequently moved to LA and cut his teeth working on just about every style of music you can mention. His resume as a producer and sideman is in…

Here we go again. Mowo! and Hal continue their previous conversation and cover a lot more ground. we open up on Hal doing an impersonation of Marianne Faithful. With nothing but love in his heart but its kind of stellar. The conversations settles after a couple of minutes into Hal’s long loving relationship with Lou Reed. Another great addition to …

Harry Manx is best described as where East meets West musically. “Mysticsippi”. Harry plays an instrument called the Mohan Veena the invention of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt a very unique stringed instrument with 20 strings. Charlie sits down with Harry and talks about the incredible world of busking and being a street musician. For Charlie and Harry to sit…

Who’s the dude that wrote all that insanely cool music on the TV show “Breaking Bad” and writes like 40 minutes per episode on “The Black List” ?? Answer : Our good friend Dave Porter.( hearty round of applause ). Mowo! sits down with the composer who just won ASCAP’s “Tv Composer Of The Year Award” for “Best Tv Music” for his work on the aforement…

Mowo! and Charlie talk about Mowo!’s sit down with drummer Vince Wilburn. Vince is the nephew of Miles Davis……..so………well………….fun stories. http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheVinceWilburnMiniEpisode.mp3By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Charlie sat down with old friend Monte Croft and Mowo! and Charlie get to talking about their conversation. http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheMonteCroftMiniEpisode.mp3By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Mowo! and Charlie talk some Joe Henry. Mowo! had the chance to sit down with the Artist , Songwriter , Producer and the two touched on many topics. Fun times!By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Mowo! and Charlie talk about Guitar genius and close friend of Charlie’s…….Jim Campilongo. Turns out Mowo! went to “Camp-Ilongo” sleep away camp as a child. http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheJimCampilongoMiniEpisode.mp3By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Charlie sits down with the wife of jazz legend Rahsaan Roland Kirk to find out that Dorthaan is a legend in her own right! Mowo! and Charlie discuss the awesomeness that is Dorthaan! http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheDorthaanKirkMiniConversation.mp3…

Charlie sits down with our good friend Eric Kalb and has what one would call a rather hysterical conversation about the adventures of Drummer Eric Kalb. Not to be missed!! http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheEricKalbMiniConversation.mp3By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Charlie and Mowo! talk about Mowo!’s conversation with baseball writer and incredible american………Mr. Dan Epstein. http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheDanEspsteinMiniConversation.mp3By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Sometimes on the show we just sit down with an old friend and have a funny conversation. Period. Enter Eric Kalb. Master drummer. Both Charlie and Mowo! have the pleasure of calling Eric an old friend. Eric has played with Charlie over the years , Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and many incredible acts including John Scofield , George Porter Jr. , …

CLICK THE LINK BELOW ITS INSANELY AWESOME http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheBradParkerConversation.mp3 Mowo! had the honor of sitting down with Brad Parker. The two had met just about 10 days earlier at a music business meeting of songwriters and composers. Brad is a musician, a songwriter, a p…

CLICK THE LINK BELOW…….AND GET THAT NIGERIAN INHERITANCE YOUR UNCLE LINUS LEFT YOU! http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheMattPiersonConversation.mp3 So you wanna go into the record business eh kid? Meet Matt Pierson. Matt has a long creative history in the record business. He got his start as the …

Vince Wilburn joins the show this week. Mowo! sits down with Vince and talks about growing up in Chicago around one of the richest most creative music scenes in the history of American music. Vince is the nephew of music Legend Miles Davis. He toured and played with his uncle for years following in the footsteps of legends (major shout out to Al Fo…

Dateline 1979: A young Charlie Hunter with his mom stumbles into a local guitar shop in Berkley,CA looking to pick up some basics so he can just know how to play a little guitar. The teacher he would meet that day happened to be a young Joe Satriani who just happened to have a gig teaching local kids how to play guitar. Not metal guitar , not progr…

Question: Who’s the only artistic director of a major world player arts program that also happens to be able to say they had a full athletic scholarship to Montana State University to play volleyball? I know,this is a gimme question but for those few of you that don’t already know the answer please allow us to introduce you to Kristy Edmunds. Krist…

Charlie sat down with Dave Dederer and had an incredible chat. You guys may know Dave as the guitarist of The Presidents of The United States Of America. Dave joins Charlie in his hotel room, makes a coffee. Dave is a fascinating individual because he’s managed to find success in both music and in the white collar world. Two very different worlds i…

What’s the absolute coolest thing that George Carlin and Richard Pryor have in common? ( hint……it wasn’t having heart attacks) ….ok…..The answer is Rocco Urbisci. Rocco worked closely along side Richard Pryor on multiple films and tv shows. He co-wrote “Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling” with Richard and also Directed the NBC series “The Richard Pr…

Dorthaan Kirk is the heart and soul behind one of the best jazz radio stations in The United States, WBGO out of Newark,New Jersey. A tireless ambassador for jazz and music in general. Dorthaan also happens to be the widow of legendary musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Charlie got to sit down with Dorthaan and talk about what it was like for her to mov…

PLAY BALL!!!!! This week we decided that with the new baseball season upon us that Mowo! should sit down with amazing baseball writer Dan Epstein ( hearty cheer heard round the internets). You may know Dan as the author of the definitive book on baseball in the the 1970’s entitled “Big Hair And Plastic Grass-A Funky Ride Through Baseball and Americ…

Charlie got to sit down with Trombonist Curtis Fowlkes at his home in Brooklyn. You guys may know Curtis as a member of The Jazz Passengers Curtis has also worked extensively with Charlie Haden , Charlie Hunter ( yes that Charlie Hunter! ), The Lounge Lizards , Bill Frisell , John Zorn, Marc Ribot , The Big Apple Circus , and as a member of the hou…

This week we continue our conversation with the great Stewart Levine. For those that don’t remember where we left off we had decided to break for lunch. I can now confirm that a Badger Salad was NOT on the menu. Please check out part 1 of the conversation because I don’t want to repeat who and what Stewart Levine is here. During this conversation w…

Charlie got to sit down with his 103 year old grandfather Mr. Sindey Greenman. Born in New York, City in 1911, Sidney remembers clearly the efforts to support the troops in WW I. That’s right I said WW I. He used to bring peach pits to school to support the war effort but you’ll have to listen to the episode to understand why. (it’s kind of amazing…

It brings us great joy to add legendary drummer and incredible human being James Gadson to The Compared To What Podcast family of conversations. Mowo! got to visit James at his home and sit with him for a little while and chat. It’s not often you get to sit down with someone that can say (very modestly we might add) that they’ve played on upwards o…

“There’s usually plenty of room on the high road”. That quote kinda sums up Monte Croft. While Monte is a highly accomplished recording artist and musician who has worked with many of the biggest names in music he is also an incredible thinker and has a distinct viewpoint on things. Even if you’re just friends with him on Facebook for example,on a …

Full discloser: I (Mowo!) have known Hal Willner since I was the age of 5. The conversation you are about to hear contains some real gems. We’ve known each other for 35+ years. The conversation is bound to get a little inside. Having said all of that I am getting ahead of myself. Let me introduce you to Hal Willner. Hal has worked on a little lit o…

Charlie sat down with Bobby Previte and had probably the most complete conversation to date on the show. It begins and ends on the same note. Really an incredible conversation. The epitome of what we want you guys to experience as listeners to this show. Bobby has had a really accomplished career as a drummer. One of the originators and main propon…

Mowo! sat down with Recording Artist, Songwriter, Record Producer and all around creative musician Joe Henry. This was the first time the two ever had a chance to sit down and have a little conversation. The two have worked with many of the same musicians and artists over the years but both share a real love for Richard Pryor which is where the con…

Charlie sat down with Guitarist Jim Campilongo and had what might be the purest guitar conversation to date on the show. The show opens with Jim’s stunning version of “The Minute Waltz” by Chopin. Nuff said. What transpires is actually only a part of a two hour conversation that followed. We will release some extra material in the coming weeks so y…

Mowo! got to sit down with his old pal Moby. It should be noted that he got to sit down with his friend Moby outside poolside at Moby’s house.From time to time the audio is compromised by the subtle breezes of the rarified air of the Hollywood Hills hitting the recorders microphone. We apologize for the audio blips and bleeps but the content of the…

Charlie got to sit down with old friend Dionne Farris. You may know Dionne from her days as a key member of the Hip Hop group Arrested Development. Without a doubt you know her her smash hit from the 90’s “I know”. She’s an incredible singer and musician who has continued to grow and master her craft. Do not judge this book by it’s cover. Dionne br…

How many people do you know that can say that they’ve worked with Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones and Charles Manson? The answer is none. You know actually none people that can say that until now. Meet Gary Stromberg. Gary is a fascinating individual. He got his start in film making , moved on to publicity with a very very short foray into recordin…

If you ever get a chance to meet Paul Canales please ask him about the process of opening and starting a restaurant. His explanation of this process when Charlie sat down with him is one of the funniest things we’ve heard in years. it’s the stuff that this podcast is all about actually. Paul owns and is the head Chef at Oakland’s Duende. Duende is …

Nels Cline more than anyone understands the expression. “slow and steady wins the race”. Charlie got to sit down with Wilco’s guitarist and talk about the long creative road that lead him to joining one of rocks most creative bands. A real innovator on his instrument Nels is one of the best conversations yet and funny enough it was Charlie’s very f…