Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
AHMAD JAMALI would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
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If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.
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Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.
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Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists.
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You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say.
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The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
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And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
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I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.
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