Allan's influences: Difference between revisions
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AH: The first guy was Charlie Christian that really did it for me and Django because he was one of the only European guys out there. Of course Jim Hall and Joe pass, but I was really more interested in saxophone than guitar. | AH: The first guy was Charlie Christian that really did it for me and Django because he was one of the only European guys out there. Of course Jim Hall and Joe pass, but I was really more interested in saxophone than guitar. | ||
==[[The Allan Holdsworth Interview | ==[[The Allan Holdsworth Interview (Musoscribe 2017)]]== | ||
Your early influences were the ambitious end of classical music: Stravinsky, Bartok, and the like. When you were young, did pop music filter its way into your musical sensibility? | Your early influences were the ambitious end of classical music: Stravinsky, Bartok, and the like. When you were young, did pop music filter its way into your musical sensibility? | ||
