My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the time for projects, and he used…

- Eldar Djangirov

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure t…

- Eldar Djangirov

I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much…

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I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedl…

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I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as mu…

- Eldar Djangirov

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is…

- Eldar Djangirov

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

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As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, t…

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Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being a…

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