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 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:28 am
It all started way back in the day. xd I was looking to try new things with the guitar. I asked my band director to help, so she gave me some jazz guitar music and some tracks. I think it was a song called "Horsepower" that got me hooked. I've loved Jazz ever since.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:55 pm
You may have heard this before...but blues is a gateway drug into jazz. I was raised on blues, and that helped me along. I also was and am into some of the huge pop singers of 40s, 50s, and 60s, and that kind of lead me into jazz. Also, I started playing guitar for a jazz band about 3 years ago. When that whole thing started, I started listening to jazz instensely, and yeah, that's basically where I am now.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:05 pm
thechong_martin hahaha hey... i gotta maintain my jazz roots dont i? xd Doesn't mean you have to diss some good genres of music to do it. xp
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:55 pm
well my mom got me into jazz i think? she always put on NPR in the car and i got really into it after a while and started downloading and buying jazz cds ever since that
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:15 am
I was listening to my school's jazz band at the concert at the end of the year, and i decided to join the summer jazz band.
that's how it started.
now, i'm obsessed eek
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:48 pm
God, jazz? Must have been when I was five. I went ot some school conert or they came to me and I heard the jazz. That was the day I swore I'd play the trumpet. Then my dad started buying my Louis Armstrong CDs. I was hooked. My first band was my elementary school jazz band. We played Born to be Wild and Birdland. From then on it was jazz all the way. I love it.
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:15 pm
I did have some jazz music in my house all my life, I started on violin, I like old music, so I would get books on jazz, Beatles, Broadway, Old Movies (you name it), then when my sis got into jazz band in middle school, it looked like alot of fun, so the next year I was thinking of guitar, but I wasn't proficient with the chords (Ab7#13b5 eek )then I decided bass (my sis played alto and I only wanted to play strings)
but I love bass and Charles Mingus and John Clayton are superb bassist
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:16 pm
Harvested Sorrow thechong_martin hahaha hey... i gotta maintain my jazz roots dont i? xd Doesn't mean you have to diss some good genres of music to do it. xp
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:33 pm
Some pretty cool stories..But thanks god for school bands, eh?
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:26 pm
i got into it more the last year. i always listen to it lightly and liked it but it was never a real favorite of mine. but then my dads old college frined came to dinner one night wen i was in i think 7th grade and noticed i had a hendrix shirt on. so we started talking about music , and he gave me a cd of his by miles davis called, "a Tribute to Jack Johnson" its an amazing cd i still listen too now. idk something about it jus got me hooked on it and i looked up other artists and started learning music theory and jazz for my guitar and violin.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:39 am
In 7th Grade, my friend wanted me to join Jazz Choir because they needed guys and she liked my voice. Ever since I joined that, I've been hooked. I'm now in Jazz Choir in my High School singing Tenor (even though I'm a Baritone).
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:02 pm
Seimono Yasamoto You may have heard this before...but blues is a gateway drug into jazz. I was raised on blues, and that helped me along. I also was and am into some of the huge pop singers of 40s, 50s, and 60s, and that kind of lead me into jazz. Also, I started playing guitar for a jazz band about 3 years ago. When that whole thing started, I started listening to jazz instensely, and yeah, that's basically where I am now. funny i actually got into jazz before blues
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:34 pm
BitchesBrew Seimono Yasamoto You may have heard this before...but blues is a gateway drug into jazz. I was raised on blues, and that helped me along. I also was and am into some of the huge pop singers of 40s, 50s, and 60s, and that kind of lead me into jazz. Also, I started playing guitar for a jazz band about 3 years ago. When that whole thing started, I started listening to jazz instensely, and yeah, that's basically where I am now. funny i actually got into jazz before blues same here before jazz i was into *gasp* "hiphop" lol
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:22 pm
From Santana and Zappa to Weather Report and Jean Luc Ponty and then to Miles Davis and Coltrane, and from there to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington and everyone else. heart
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:16 pm
I got into jazz when I went to a Jazz festival out in the country at the age of 10. I came home determined to learn trumpet... so i did xd I havn't looked back since
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