Absolutely,
In days of performing (I'm not counting poetry now though it's a great performance field, and like all performances, is whatever you make it with what you've got - for instance, best teachers in classical piano didn't do me any harm (since fortunately they had GOOD TECHNIQUE) and some of my later great jazz pianist/friends as Ed Kelly who kept his life as important (his family, his church) as his performance and kept TEACHING AT LANEY. If these jazz musicians didn't have some classical training, they sought study, but perhaps that was primmarily in piano. I don't how much 'study' the great player at Woodstock - oh, Jimi Hendrix had, yah he had some study, like if now you wanted a bird in the picture, you go study a bird (not necessarily a note) - so people good in jazz some times later could go for 'adding a little technique' but it's like love=making, FUCK THE TECHNIQUE!!!!
jESSE
PS - YOURS IS A RARE HISTORY IN FORMING BANDS, fRANK, WITH GOOD MUSICIANS WITH YOU. i REMEMBER ONE PERSON WHO SAID 'YOU CAN'T BE A PIANIST BECAUSE IT'S NOT POSSIBLE' (OR SUCH WORDS) AND THEN ONE IS STUCK WITH THE FACT BUT YOU ARE A PIANIST!!!!!!!!! WITH THE FACTORS SOME 'JUST DON'T GOT IT' - HHYTHM, IT'S IN THE beat man!!!!!!! it's in the pause it's in the
hesitation it's knowing how to 'get off the beat' and how to just suggest and have surprises etc etc etc
jesse, pianist at large
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yes, Jesse. What most people don't get is almost everything in life is making love, playing. I am a professional lover and Player. So everything I have tried in life has come easy for me... Just playing. But a lot of people want to think my life must have been hard!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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