Sam Holdsworth: Difference between revisions
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HOLDSWORTH: That’s a solo piece about my '''father''', but it could have been written about anyone. The song was written because I’m one of those people who never seems to say how much I care about people, especially the people I’m really close to. It’s kind of an English thing; certain things go unsaid, and you don’t have to always keep hugging people. I wish I had, because when my '''father''' did pass away, I felt that I hadn’t actually told him how much I cared about him. The title means "something that’s encapsulated in something else," like when you crack open a rock and there’s some kind of a stone inside. I just felt like letting him know, and the song’s about anybody else who might be feeling the same way, about just generally not being able to say what you’re feeling. | HOLDSWORTH: That’s a solo piece about my '''father''', but it could have been written about anyone. The song was written because I’m one of those people who never seems to say how much I care about people, especially the people I’m really close to. It’s kind of an English thing; certain things go unsaid, and you don’t have to always keep hugging people. I wish I had, because when my '''father''' did pass away, I felt that I hadn’t actually told him how much I cared about him. The title means "something that’s encapsulated in something else," like when you crack open a rock and there’s some kind of a stone inside. I just felt like letting him know, and the song’s about anybody else who might be feeling the same way, about just generally not being able to say what you’re feeling. | ||
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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,"- | ||
