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NikolaTomic
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mrhappy
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 Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:20 pm Post subject: Walter White! |
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That's funny to me because before I even finished reading your first blog sentence I was thinking of how I had the same experience working with Walter White... lo and behold the next sentence revealed that Walter was who you were referring to! He would single handedly elevate the whole band to a higher level on every gig!! What a pleasure listening to him play! 
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Turkle
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Just to add - this goes for classical performance as well. Although I'm mainly a jazz player, I come from a classical background, and my scattered performances with great orchestral musicians - be they percussionists, other trumpet players, conductors, or any other instrument - are also as profoundly inspiring as it can be playing with the great jazz musicians.
I've watched YouTube videos where musicians like Wynton or Clark Terry sit in with college combos during master classes or conventions or whatever. It's crazy how just a few notes into it, their performance and sense of time is so incredibly strong that you can hear the rest of the group spontaneously adjust and "enter into" their time feel. Instantly, they raise the level of those around them. It's clearly audible, and you know the feeling from when you've had the delightful opportunity to play with the greats.
I enjoyed your blog post about this, as it was an opportunity to remember those times when I've been lucky enough to play with musicians of that caliber. And you never know the next time it will happen - maybe the next jam session you attend, you'll get on stage with a monster! Be prepared, folks, and don't have too many beers before you jump on stage. Ha!
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Rod Haney
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| Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Walter White! |
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| mrhappy wrote: | | That's funny to me because before I even finished reading your first blog sentence I was thinking of how I had the same experience working with Walter White... lo and behold the next sentence revealed that Walter was who you were referring to! He would single handedly elevate the whole band to a higher level on every gig!! What a pleasure listening to him play! |
Didn’t he cook meth. on Breaking Bad?
Seriously that’s someone who flew under my radar. Can you point me to some sound clips? I don’t think that trait is limited to music either. Greatness elevates performance of peers in every walk of life. But GREATNESS of that caliber is very rare IME.
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veery715
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That's a great blog post and so absolutely true. Even in a small combo setting the presence of a markedly better player has always made my own playing better. It tool a bit before I was able to let go of my reticence to play in the same space as a great player - ego has its way, doesn't it? Once I was able to just let go then, wow, what great experiences I have had!!
I LOVE the expression "chronically dissatisfied". That is a trumpeters domain, for sure.
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