LINER NOTES with David Bixler featuring Derrick Gardner

Trumpet player Derrick Gardener recently retired
from his position at the University of Manitoba
in order to move back to Chicago and focus on
playing, but instead he found himself as the head of Jazz Studies
at Northwestern University. In this episode of
LINER NOTES Derrick explains how that happened
as well as sharing some of the details about his life changing
trip to Africa that transformed him as a person
and gave birth to his latest record Pan Africa
with the Jazz Prophets.