When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition..
Jazz to me is a living music..
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz..
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz..
And I used to listen to a lot of jazz..
I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!.
I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny..
I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry..
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized..
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was..
I love my jazz hands!.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician..
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligatio….
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me..
There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past..
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous..
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians..
For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances..
Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!.
North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered..
Jazz is about freedom within discipline..