Tal Farlow discusses working with Charles Mingus

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Tal Farlow discusses his musical sound

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Tal Farlow discusses the need to be comfortable with technology

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Q: “I hear a lot of Tatum in you, by the way - a lot of that harmony and speed that he could do…”

A: “Tal Farlow: Well, that's one of the ... Well, I was very much interested in that when I heard it. You know, again, that was something I heard from my sign shop in North Carolina and … Of course, it's pretty impossible to play a lot of that stuff on the guitar.”

Interviewer: “Sure.”

Tal Farlow: “But, you know, I was interested in his harmonic ideas, you know, in the way he would rearrange the harmony to songs and things.”

Interviewer: “Yeah.”

Tal Farlow: “I like that, but ...”