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"The presence of Stevo Bortz on our show can be traced more or less directly to my love of jazz music as well as big band typed music. Over the years I have been able to listen to his plentiful uploads of the Hank Levy Towson State University Ensemble; this is most interesting to me for more than one reason. Firstly, Hank Levy wrote all of these charts, some fo which I would not be able to hear as there aren't always public documents of many of the compositions. Is is true there are famous ones from Levy, most notably the chart Whiplash which was made into a famous movie of the same name and which serves as one of the central compositions played by the protagonist of that film. And of course Hank Levy had written for the Stan Kenton and Don Ellis bands in the 70s as well as many others. But Hank Levy presided over this department in Baltimore for several decades and they made these recordings. Because of Stevo Bortz I could hear these college ensembles play some, in my view, gorgeous music, as well as enjoy the 1970s artwork and photos that would invariably accompany the physical documents of these recordings. For me though the main things was the sound of these uploads. They sounded good in the way that older vinyl material can often so sound. Yet in a very real sense this question of audio is but one part of Stevo's project. As Stevo made so eloquently clear on our episode, his interest is in sound preservation of course, but also preserving history more generally - in his phrase, the underrepresented. This of course doesn't necessarily involve professional music; it also can involve family histories, high school archives, local bands and much more. I have to say that what I love most about Stevo as a guest is the way he articulates his enthusiasm for his project. Hearing him speak made for more than one inner Amen from your host in response to some of what he said. I certainly hope you feel his enthusiasm and possibly look at past, present, future in a whole new way." Stevo’s Bio, Links to his beautiful work, organizations he loves: The SterArt Recording Legacy locations are as follows: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SterArtRecordingLegacy The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@themustardking For me personally, just a link to my podcast website would be enough (if you include it, please make sure it is notated as being Not Safe For Work , and by Not Safe For Work I mean literally there will be swear words and inappropriate content within the first few lines of the website. Steno’s PodcastFriday Night Fanfiction https://www.fridaynightfanfiction.com Organizations dear to Stevo: As for organizations dear to me, I guess the two that come immediately to mind would be The Internet Archive , which is always in need of people uploading relevant material, donations for storage space, and volunteers for helping archive history. The Internet Archive: https://archive.org I am also a huge advocate for early literacy programs, especially for the underprivileged, so Page Ahead Children's Literacy Program is very dear to me. http://www.pageahead.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/support