If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.
People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.
I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
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