very inspirational. I was drawn a little to a bit it all works. It didn’t make it less impressive, it more, “strange” playing. McCoy Tyner I always just made it approachable. I think when you found really interesting. first listen to jazz, in some ways it sounds like It was amazing for me, but I think it was always
three people having a conversation at the same something I struggled with because towards
Growing up in Canada the first jazz piano I ever time, and yet, somehow, they’re magically the end of my degree, I just felt called more
really heard was Oscar Peterson, when I was interlinked but you don’t really understand and more to be writing songs for the church.
in high school because he got played on CBC how. How does the drummer know to do that? It really felt like with jazz, it wasn’t that they
radio. It just kind of blew me away, and especially How does the upright bass player know to do were mutually exclusive to one another, but
when I started to realize he was making all of it that, and how does the piano player know to it was more so that if I was really going to
up. Then you kind of learned that he is making lay out with his left hand at this part? How do try and grow as a jazz piano player and/or
it up, and he is not in a sense, the same way they understand how to play against rhythms? songwriter while also doing full time ministry,
as baroque musicians, that this is a way of Doing polyrhythms. And then you realize so it was a struggle. That’s the thing that’s hard
communicating, like if they went to school and much of jazz is just spending time learning how because when you’re in a local church ministry
did grammar lessons so they understand how other players play. It’s sort of like digesting their it’s eighty percent people. It’s not learning to
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pedagogy, their approach to the instrument.
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