I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.
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.
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.
Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
I always leaned toward free jazz... experimental jazz and progressive jazz. I feel like jazz is just part of the flavor and palette that you have as a musician to experiment with.
For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.
Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.