The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
From Branford Marsalis
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
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