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Vote: | As Eric Dolphy said "Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone". And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes. |
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Vote: | Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. |
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Vote: | Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. |
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Vote: | I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs. |
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Vote: | I like to listen to ethnic music, like folk music from different countries. I really like Asian music, like Japanese music, Chinese music and Indian music. I like classical music. I love Bach. And then the jazz I grew up on, which, after Barney Kessel, became people like early Miles Davis groups, John Coltrane and especially the Bill Evans trio. |
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Vote: | If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. |
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Vote: | On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. |
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Vote: | So in a way, I was subbing for George, which was really far out. George was an established player and a really hot player and I wasn't. But it was fun. I still have a copy of the record. But it's long out of print. I actually made a tape copy of it, because I figure the record won't last that much longer. |
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Vote: | That's really the way you play live anyway. If you're playing on a gig, you're not going to get a second chance to overdub your solo on the next set. But when I have my druthers, I like to do multi-track, mostly just to be able to fix something that's really horrible. |
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Vote: | The records with Andy are done in one day. They were done for a record label called Steeplechase. The guy who runs the label . . . books two record sessions a day. So he has a record date with one group from, say 10:00 until 3:00, then another band comes in from 5:00 until midnight. |
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Vote: | You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. |
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John Abercrombie (born October 10, 1780 in Aberdeen; died November 14, 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.
The son of the Reverend George Abercrombie of Aberdeen, he was educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College there. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating as M.D. in 1803 he settled down to practise in that city, where he soon attained a leading position.
From 1816 he published various papers in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, which formed the basis of his more extensive works: Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord, regarded as the first textbook in neuropathology, and Researches on the Diseases of the Intestinal Canal, Liver and other Viscera of the Abdomen, both published in 1828.
He also found time for philosophical speculations, and in 1830 he published his Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers of Man and the Investigation of Truth, which was followed in 1833 by a sequel, The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings. Both works showed little originality of thought; they achieved wide popularity at the time of their publication, but have long been superseded.
In 1821 he was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons.
In 1841 he was partially paralyzed, but was able to return to his practice of medicine. In 1844 he died of a ruptured artery while preparing to visit patients.
For his services as a physician and philanthropist he received many marks of distinction, including the Rectorship of Marischal College.
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