Keep on Learning

That’s what the professionals do.

As I listened to an Evergreen Jazz festival performance by two top clarinet players, I glanced around the audience. One row in front, observing every nuance, sat Clark Burnside, the veteran clarinetist for another band at the festival.

That scene repeated itself throughout the weekend: one master of the craft listening and learning from another.
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Maybe I Can Learn Something

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by Andy Scheer

During a performance by the Kris Tokarski Trio the opening day of the Evergreen Jazz Festival, who walked in and took a seat but Carl Sonny Leyland and Jeff Hamilton.

This was the first of many times I noticed acclaimed musicians listening … Continue reading