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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
People want to have access to jazz because it has a vibe that's very strong.
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.
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.
I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.
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.
I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.
What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.