Allan's influences: Difference between revisions
From Allan Holdsworth Information Center
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 61: | Line 61: | ||
From that time period, it was mostly the records that my dad had. So originally it was Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. And then it was Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow, and Jimmy Raney. All those really great guys. However, I wasn't really focused on listening to the guitar. I listened to a lot of music. My dad had a lot of classical music, which was very inspiring to me. There was Debussy, Ravel, Béla Bartók, Stravinsky, and Aaron Copland. I was influenced by a lot of other things besides jazz. | From that time period, it was mostly the records that my dad had. So originally it was Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. And then it was Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow, and Jimmy Raney. All those really great guys. However, I wasn't really focused on listening to the guitar. I listened to a lot of music. My dad had a lot of classical music, which was very inspiring to me. There was Debussy, Ravel, Béla Bartók, Stravinsky, and Aaron Copland. I was influenced by a lot of other things besides jazz. | ||
==[[ In Memoriam: DownBeat’s Final Interview with Allan Holdsworth (Downbeat 2017)]]== | ==[[In Memoriam: DownBeat’s Final Interview with Allan Holdsworth (Downbeat 2017)]]== | ||
You wanted to take up a horn rather than guitar when you were younger. You really didn't think of yourself as a guitar player. Do you still feel that way and why? | You wanted to take up a horn rather than guitar when you were younger. You really didn't think of yourself as a guitar player. Do you still feel that way and why? | ||
