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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
- Pan
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
- Nov 07, 2020
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.
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- Nov 07, 2020