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There’s no future without the past and anybody who doesn’t really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it’s going. ******Cannonball Aderely 106** Biography Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley  TAMPA, Florida,09/15/1928//GARY,Indiana 08/08/1975 After his music studies in Tallahassee(1944/48) he became a high school band director at the Dillard High … Read more

The psychology of music has been recognized and studied since ancient times, with Plato theorizing that different styles of music stirred different emotions in listeners. Pull up your favorite song or the soundtrack from a horror movie, and you’ll see that he was right. It’s easy to understand that music has a profound effect on us, but … Read more

It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change.   Miles Davis 102 Trumpeter, Flugelhornist, Composer, Bandleader Date of birth: May 25, 1926 Date of death: Sep 28, 1991 Miles Davis was arguably the most influential jazz musician in the post-World War II period, being at … Read more

Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazz because, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint. Cannonball Adderely 101 Biography Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley  TAMPA, Florida,09/15/1928//GARY,Indiana 08/08/1975 After his music studies in Tallahassee(1944/48) he became a … Read more

All this talk about Method, the Method! WHAT method? I thought each of us had our OWN method! I’m afraid I probably outrage the Method people.   Sir Lawrence Olivier Olivier published two highly regarded volumes of memoirs, Confessions of an Actor (1984) and On Acting (1986). He was married three times, to actresses Jill … Read more

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. Miles Davis 101   Miles Davis Trumpeter, Flugelhornist, Composer, Bandleader Date of birth: May 25, 1926 Date of death: Sep 28, 1991 Miles Davis was arguably the most influential jazz musician in the post-World … Read more

“Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem. Though sometimes necessary, as witness a professional and technical secret that may have a bearing upon the welfare and very safety of this country, we should be very careful in the way we apply it, because in censorship … Read more