You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
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Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
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.
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