Steve Rowland has engaged in conversation with some of the iconic thought and musical leaders of our time.
As an oral historian, he has worked for The United States Holocaust Museum and The Columbia University Oral History Research Office. He has won the prestigious American Oral History Association’s Gold Medal. He has conducted interviews about the history of Neurology, the Holocaust, Shakespeare, prison reform, United States political history, and of course, about American Music of many genres and periods.
His interviews examine society, creativity, artistic growth, economics, racism, spirituality, and more.
He published his first book of interviews in late 2018 – a collection of interviews about Leonard Bernstein. Leonard Bernstein Oral History, Volume 1.
PARTIAL LISTING OF STEVE’S MANY INTERVIEWS:
Keith Jarrett
Sonny Rollins
Max Roach
Cornel West
Quincy Jones
Amiri Baraka
Mstislav Rostropovich
Dizzy Gillespie
Fela Kuti
Stephen Sondheim
Carlos Santana
Ahmet Ertegun
Smokey Robinson
Lester Bowie
Rashied Ali
John Lee Hooker
Reggie Workman
Alice Coltrane
McCoy Tyner
George Clinton
Dionne Warwick
Leslie Uggams
Shirley Caesar
John Levy (bassist and businessman)
ABOUT MILES DAVIS
Adam Holzman
Airto
Kei Akagi
Bartz, Gary
Beasly, John
John Bigham
Bishop, Walter Jr
Blakey, Art
Bluiett, Hamiett
Bobby Irving
Bonner, Red
Bowie, Lester
Butler, George
Ndugu Chancler
George Clinton
Jimmy Cobb
Conyers, John
Crew Verite
Stanley Crouch
Millard Curtis
Dara, Olu
Darryl Jones
Davis, Art
Davis, Frances
Davis, Walter Jr.
George Duke
Jon Faddis
Farmer, Art
Fela Kuti
Roberta Flack
Foley McCreary
Fortune, Sonny
Gerry Mulligan
Gillespie Dizzy
Ira Gitler
Glass, Philip
Gleason, Jean
Jeri Gray
Hemphill, Julius
Hentoff
Holland, Dave
Holzman, Adam
Irving, Robert
Jackson, Munyungo
Jarrett, Keith
Jones Daryl
Quincy Jones
Larrain, Gille
Phil Lesh
Tommy LiPuma
Marcus Miller
Jan Lohmann
McCook, Tommy
McDonald, Raleigh
Miles, Jason
Mitchell, Jon.
Morgenstern, Dan
Mulligan, Gerry
Murray, Pat, and Miles Davis crew
Ndugu
Porter Lewis int
Porter, Roy
Prophet Jennings
Randle, Eddie
Redmond, Eugene
Reed, Ishmael
Reed, Tom
Reitfeld, Benny
Riley, Clayton
Roy Porter
Santana
Shorter, Wayne
Stan Tonkel (CBS recording engineer)
Mike Stern
Bob Berg
Art Tayler
Clark Terry
Tom Reed
Tony Williams
Vince Wilburn
Weaver, Ves
White, Lenny
White, Verdine
White Andrew
Wilburn Vince
Williams, Tony
Williams, Martin
Zaiwanul Joe
ABOUT JOHN COLTRANE
Rashied Ali
Sonny Rollins
Max Roach
Andrew White
Sangeeta Michael Berardi
Alice Coltrane
Jimmy Stewart (saxophonist, arranger, leader, artist, playwright, essayist…)
Steve Coleman
Lewis Porter
Art Davis (bassist)
Makanda Ken McIntyre
John Glenn (saxophonist)
Cousin Mary
Dave Burrell
Zita Carno (pianist)
John Gilmore
Amadie, Jimmy
Sonny Fortune
Byard Lancaster
Odean Pope
Jimmy Oliver
Sun Ra
Dennis Sandole
Grover Washington, Jr.
Bartz, Gary
Davis, Art
George Russell
Elvin Jones
Oliver Lake
Carlos Santana
Cornel West
Roland Wiggins (music theorist, teacher)
Marty Khan
ABOUT LEONARD BERNSTEIN:
Adams, John
Adler, Ellen
Alsop, Marin
Ardoin,John
Barrett, Michael
Alexander Bernstein
Burton Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein
Nina Bernstein
Bernier, Rosamond
Blumenfeld, Aaron
Burrell, Dave
Burton, Humphrey
Carno, Zita,
Chan, Donald
Chapin, Schuyler
Chaplin, Saul
Comden, Betty
Corigliano, John
DePriest, James
Drucker, Stanley
Dyer, Richard
Endler, Franz
Eschenbach, Christoph
Fanto, Clarence
Feinstein, Michael
Fleischer, Leon
Foss, Lukas
Frantz, Justus
Frederic, Jerold
Gebbert, Constantin
Gloyd, Russell
Gottlieb, Jack
Gould, Mark
Green, Adolph
Greenberg, Bob
Grunwald, Henry
Gustin, Dan
Laderman, Ezra
Lancaster, Byard
Leon, Ruth
Magdoff, Harry
Magee, Jeffery
Mauceri, John
McFerrin, Bobby
McPartland, Marian
Mindlin, Mike
Morgan,Michael
Myrow, Fred
Nagano, Kent
Nassief, Kelly
Newman, Phyllis
O’Neal, Cynthia
Oppenheim, David
Orleans, Jim
Pack, David
Perle, George
Perle, Shirley
Pietkiewicz, Janucz
Plimpton, George
Prince, Harold
Pulliam, Patti
Raksin, David
Ramin, Sid
Robinson, Steve
Rockwell, John
Rodgers, Mary
Rorem, Ned
Rosenman, Leonard
Rostropovich, Mstislav
Schneider, Hannah
Shapiro, Harry
Sondheim, Stephen
Spano, Robert
Sternberg, Jonathan
Tiboris, Peter
Urquhart, Craig
Voison, Roger
Wadsworth, Steven
Webb, Charles
Zirato, Bruno
SHAKESPEARE (over 240 interviews!)
Arin Arbus
John Douglas Thompson
Bill Rauch
Dominic Dromgoole
Wole Oguntokun
Michael Boyd
Marvin Bey Lewis (incarcerated Black Panther)
Derrick Lee Weeden
BUSINESS
Ahmet Ertegun
Lionel Pincus