Sam Holdsworth: Difference between revisions
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"To be honest," he said in a conversation in mid-April. "I call it jazz because the essence of the music is improvisation, and that makes it jazz to me. My '''dad''' used to tell me that to him jazz meant improvisation, and it was supposed to be current with what was happening at any particular point in time. Unfortunately some people insist upon tieing jazz to a specific time period. And that’s not completely right, I don’t think. I always feel that what Charlie Parker did when he came on the scene, or what any other new player does, should be different from what went before. That’s what’s jazz to me. That’s the essence of it,"- | "To be honest," he said in a conversation in mid-April. "I call it jazz because the essence of the music is improvisation, and that makes it jazz to me. My '''dad''' used to tell me that to him jazz meant improvisation, and it was supposed to be current with what was happening at any particular point in time. Unfortunately some people insist upon tieing jazz to a specific time period. And that’s not completely right, I don’t think. I always feel that what Charlie Parker did when he came on the scene, or what any other new player does, should be different from what went before. That’s what’s jazz to me. That’s the essence of it,"- | ||
