You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.Oscar Peterson
very honored and proud that jazz has brought me to this acclaim by the Canadian people.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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I have no one style.
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I play as I feel.
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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