From the trenches of The Great War, Alan Seeger's poems, letters and diaries spring to life in the voices of Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine. Recorded just before ...
"The artists are the ones who make it possible for people to remember what the time was like, and who was there, and what we did as human beings. We know what it was like in ...
"I did a lot of practicing with my dad. We were practicing five days a week Monday through Friday for 90 minutes a day starting at the age of 3 up all the way up to 17. So, ...
"The music is not just the music. It's a reflection of how to live. I think I started out I just really liked the sound of the music and I had no idea how rich it would end ...
“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel like a singer or horn player ...
"I guess it was about 3rd or 4th grade that I got hooked on R & B and early rock & roll. I just became a fanatical record collector even at that age. Not a massive ...
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's attitudes in jazz towards rock ...
"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started checking out Louis ...
"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on purpose, not sloppy ...
"We have a mixture of many elements from the world. The classical music from Europe- the sense of melody and deep harmonic sense- and on the other side we have people coming ...