As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
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I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.
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Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
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