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Avant-garde, Jazz, Pop, Classical, Country And Western, Rock, Free, Straight-ahead, Etc. Are Ultimately Meaningless Terms In The Face Of The Music Being Discussed At Best - At Worst, Those Terms Often Serve As Code Words For What Is In Fact A Cultural / Political Discussion More Than A Musical One.

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I Was Deep In The Zone Of Practicing Almost Constantly

Players Get To That Intermediate Level Where They Can Already Play Pretty Good, And That's Kind Of A Dangerous Period Because They Tend To Start Playing Only The Things That They Can Play, Rather Than The Things They Can't.

It's A Shame That Jazz Is Now Being Turned Into Dried Fruit. It's Becoming Quantized, Diced And Defined. It's Becoming An Idiom. To Me If It's Anything, Jazz Is A Verb ? It's More Like A Process Than It Is A Thing.