Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation. -Doc Severinsen

 

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.


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As I look back now, some of those dates, the players - I think I didn't realize how fully significant that all was. My God, some of the playing you heard. You had to take it in, and it had to do something to you.

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I was snowed in a couple of years, just like everyone else.

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He got a very large meat cleaver and made us get back on the bus. That was heartbreaking, ... Maybe an hour's drive from New York. I'll never forget it.

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We were run out of a diner.

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Everyone was close friends.

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