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"As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives."
Life
"Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child."
Years
"If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it."
Now
"In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right."
Right
"And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies."
Movies
"I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut."
State
"Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical."
First
"But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen."
Collaboration
"Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist."
Buddhist
"First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations."
First
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