There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
I'm not a big jazz fan.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.