All that Jazz

An eminent jazz musician whose work I greatly admire reacted to yesterday's story with 5 hearts. (In case you missed it, you can read it on the website: www.tonalrefraction.com/blog.) A prominent piano tuner (they have the best ears!) said the TR Ensemble played Mozart "like jazz." So what's the problem with Classical music training?

Measurement; competition; correctness.

All you have to do to get a kid interested in music of any sort is to tell them that there are 32,000 hair cells vibrating inside their ear, faster than anything else that happens inside of their head. Try wrapping your own brain around that one. So why don't we learn that in "music" school?

Sound was always the core of my musical being. Music is not a thing. It is alive.