My jazz education was pretty much self taught until I went to the Guildhall in 1983. So how did things move forward from there? As ‘jazz degrees’ didn’t exist until fairly recently…
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Right at the start, an accordionist friend of my dad’s showed how to make a pub style vamp on the piano-and from then on I was off studying classical music alongside “made up” stuff (the word Jazz would crop up quite a few years later!) I still feel grateful for that little moment back then of being able to be liberated from the notes and dots….something I now see as an educator really holding some people back.Ībsolutely, I hear young classical musicians speaking of a desire to start improvising and understanding chords/groove more and more… Worrying early signs of a rampant ego, but I honestly have no idea where that concept came from! I briefly played violin, then started cello and piano lessons when I was about 10. I can remember trying to organise the other kids in a little ensemble, telling them when to play and not play etc. Like many of my generation, my first music was at primary school playing recorder and banging chime bars. How did music start for you? Piano?… Singing?( Being Welsh?!)
His deeply considered piano playing, together with saxophonist Iain Ballamy and vocalist June Tabor make the exquisite Quercus… Here is a link to the ECM website: Huw Warren is a much cherished musician amongst the great British jazz players of his generation and it is a joy to see him receiving the ultimate recognition, an ECM release.
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