The Queen of Hang: Sheila E. Anderson

Eddie Palmieri

Pianist, Composer and Bandleader

Interviewed: 12/1/04

Evening Jazz, wbgo, 88.3FM
Host: Awilda Rivera

Favorite Classical Composers:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Igor Stravinsky

Favorite Classic Jazz Recordings:

Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Miles Ahead – Miles Davis & Gil Evans
Moanin’ – Art Blakey

Favorite Jazz Composers:

Duke Ellington
Thelonius Monk

Favorite Book or Author:

The Great Books – Julius Cesar & Alexander The Great
Health Publications
Political Science
Favorite Movie:
The Godfather

Favorite Television Programs:

All In The Family (Archie Bunker)
Sanford & Sons (Redd Fox)
Everything Bill Cosby

Favorite Food:

Watercress & Parsley Salad
Pasteles (Puerto Rican meat pies)

Favorite Dessert:

Flan

Favorite American City(s):

New York
San Francisco

Favorite thing to do when not performing/working:

Listen to classical music

Bill Cosby/Entertainer, Author, Producer

I love to learn about the personal side of people. Years ago, Awilda Rivera, Evening Jazz Host on WBGO, 88.3 fm, ended her interviews with "Favorite Things" questions. Thankfully, she has shared some of them with me that I believe that you would love reading. This is the first of more to come.

Interviewed: 3/9/04
Show: Evening Jazz /Awilda Rivera

Bill Cosby

Favorite Jazz Singers
Dinah Washington
Johnny Hartman

Favorite Jazz Composers
Gil Evans
Horace Silver
Cannonball & Nat Adderley

Favorite Book or Author
“Price Of The Ticket” (James Baldwin)

Favorite Quote“It’s not what he’s done to you; it’s what you’re not doing.”

Favorite Poem“If” (Rudyard Kipling)

Favorite Movie
Treasure of Sierra Madre

Favorite Program
Gunsmoke

Favorite Cereal
“No More” (no more cereal for me)

Favorite Food
“I can’t even go there. But I just know when it’s good, my right arm bends at the elbow and I start flapping the right arm like a wounded chicken.”

Favorite Dessert
Jello Pudding

Favorite Ice Cream Flavors
Chocolate and Coffee

Favorite Clothes Designer
Sy Mann (Toronto, Canada)

Favorite Color
Mercer Brown

Favorite City
San Francisco, CA