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Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
There will never come a time when you don't have to practice
All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.
That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.
You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.
I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.
A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.