Once a great teacher enters your life, you’re never the same. Great teachers function as excavators; they chisel away, honing in and refining a student’s talents. They extract abilities that may have laid latent, unrealized. This teaching pedagogy is embodied by music teachers like Bishop Chantel Wright. Wright is meticulous and uncompromising, traits that lend themselves well to teaching the precisions of music. As she shares her story, consider the most demanding teachers in your life, and what they have unearthed in you.

Theme Music

“Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool” written by Duke Ellington and Laura Rembert
Sony/ATV Harmony (ASCAP) / Music Sales Corporation (ASCAP) o/b/o itself and Tempo Music

Performed by Sean Jones and NYO Jazz

Chantel Wright Episode

“God is My Everything” written by Percy Gray

© Slickey Music (BMI) administered by Music Services, Inc. / Saved Children Music (BMI)

Performed by the Chicago Mass Choir

Recording courtesy of New Haven Records

“Midnight Train to Georgia” written by James Weatherly

Universal PolyGram Int. Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP)

Performed by Gladys Knight and The Pips

Recording courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment

“Mamma” written and performed by Abdullah Ibrahim

Edition Abdullah Ibrahim Ekpa (GEMA)

Recording courtesy of Enja & Yellowbird Records

“So Beautiful” written by Lee Hutson, Jr. and Taalib Johnson

EMI April Music Inc./La Kasa Sole/Writers Guild (ASCAP)

/ Universal Music Corp. o/b/o itself and Soul Child Music (ASCAP)

Performed by Robert Glasper

Recording courtesy of Blue Note Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises

“Tarn” written and performed by Scott Solter

Under license from Scott Solter

http://scottsolter.bandcamp.com

“Of Dreams to Come” written and performed by Robert Glasper

 I Am A Jazzy Guy (SESAC) administered by Concord Tunes (SESAC) 

By arrangement with Concord

Recording courtesy of Blue Note Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises

“Guilty Cubicles” written by Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew

Arts & Crafts Music, Inc. / Songs of Peer. Ltd. o/b/o Brendan Canning Music (ASCAP)

Performed by Broken Social Scene

Recording courtesy of Arts & Crafts Productions, Inc.