I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.
I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulatio… - Paul Smoker
I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulatio…
- Paul Smoker
Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard. - Paul Smoker
Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.
There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm doing.' I wasn't putting enough air through th… - Paul Smoker
There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm doing.' I wasn't putting enough air through th…
When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the blac… - Paul Smoker
When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the blac…
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world. - Paul Smoker
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There'… - Paul Smoker
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There'…
I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college prof… - Paul Smoker
I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college prof…
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