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“There are different approaches. Some players stick to the realm of the accompaniment, and some explore more interplay with the soloist or the melody. My style involves a lot of interplay and improvisation. So its like a level of tiers, where the melody is first, the drums and rhythm is second, and then comes everything else. The other instruments are often sweetening the sound, and if Im listening to them, I can play less. Usually, the more instruments there are, the less I have to play. So it depends, but actually Im playing everything in my head, so what Im doing is subtracting things.” -Jerry Jemmott Ive been lucky enough to work with Jerry a few times, and the biggest challenge was trying to hold my saxophone embouchure in spite of an irresistible urge to SMILE because he was making the GROOVE feel SOOOOO good. Great to see this Master and beautiful cat back with Aretha--on Letterman last night--subtracting down to the ESSENCE!
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:39:39 +0000

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