What makes for an excellent traditional jazz musician in terms of technical expertise as well as authenticity?
Dr. Michael White: To make a good New Orleans jazz musician, you need to have a good knowledge of your instrument and how to play the instrument. But you also need to go beyond the technical side of music to make the instrument become a vehicle for your own expression. You need to have a unique and personalized sound and expression that has a New Orleans voice. You have to be able to let your life and your emotions as well as the life and emotions and history of New Orleans become part of the music. It’s like all of that comes to life. And you have to keep in mind certain aspects of rhythm that are really dance music, even if it’s not before a dance type audience — you want to make people dance, because there’s always that feeling of interaction between the music and the dances in life. I also think a good jazz musician, for traditional New Orleans jazz, has to be able to interact with other musicians and help to create a magic that goes beyond one’s own playing into something spiritu
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