Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
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And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
I had had a classical education prior to that.