Ryan Keberle
The great composers in jazz write music that’s not only fun to listen to, but it’s fun to play.
The great composers in jazz write music that’s not only fun to listen to, but it’s fun to play.
With opera cues, you don’t have to count everything. It’ll be like 85 bars rest, 144 bars rest and then ‘canon explosion.’ That’s a pretty obvious cue.
Freddie told me there were two trumpet players that scared him, Booker Little and Woody Shaw. Can you imagine scaring Freddie Hubbard?
We started playing brass instruments very young. I think it was mostly from our curiosity of the shiny metal objects in the forbidden room.