“Details,” says Gamma founder Larry Jackson as he bustles through the backstage hallways of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. “Details are everything: The lighting, the stage, the music, the questions, the flowers, everything.”

Indeed, “Flowers” is the name (and concept) of the new show Jackson conceived and oversees with Apple Music, which filmed and broadcast its first episode — live — on a flower-bedecked stage at Jazz at Lincoln Center last Wednesday, with Mariah Carey and SZA . That lineup would be a fantasy concert for many, but instead it’s a new music-related talk series, whereby an iconic artist is interviewed by a younger artist who is also a fan and thus is given their flowers. And as anyone who watched the livestream knows, the pair couldn’t have been better matched.

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