American - Musician | August 26, 1960 -
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
Branford Marsalis
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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
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If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
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Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
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If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
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I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.
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I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
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