montg Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 This is from Alyn Shipton's jazz history book--the interview with Hill took place in 2000: "they (jazz players today) can play the notes and stuff, but they don't have the magic, because they've become so homogenous that something's lost. In our day, we would play, and then the technique would come to fit whatever we wanted to play. But today they develop the technique first...they haven't had direct contact with the masters, and that's where the magic is missing.... That's where you learn the stuff that's not written , the tones, the colors, the things you can do, and that's what we got from contact with the masters." Is the situation today really bleak? Who among the newer players (under 40?) has the magic that Hill's talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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