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there's another one which i like better jazz or rather the blues is when a good man feels that why today's guest is neither he's neither fact nor sad but this part and he's one of the legends in jazz and a pioneer of jazz music one of his album is called past present and future years so what does the future hold for jazz lovers here's jazz idol of the present grammy award winner korea. at the age of just one or she started playing the piano influenced by his father a just trumpet player he grew up immersed in the music and culture all the general consequently sent to study into music colleges he became bored by the theory and instead chose the path of improvise ation he's since become one of the stars of the evan garde jazz scene playing gigs with the greats such as miles davis together

with the legendary trumpeter tricks talents all the birth of the jazz fusion movement during his career she has won fifteen grammy awards. chicken welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being good there's a beer welcome to moscow yeah i love moscow well first of all this this album i just i just mentioned past present and the future is this two thousand and one and . some damage that when i was when i first saw it when i first heard that. theme. is something that says those papers you get when you buy oil is.

that those that do something to do with it one way the future is i have no idea well futures is plural because it's not just one in one person's mind it's in all of our minds so futures you know my future my my friends future your future and it's how we all see it when people are asked about well what what's it going to be in the future you know where it's you can get as many different answers is there are people and unfortunately we have we still have passed in total two because some . different people see it differently. for instance was dedicated to my mother and she had just passed away right around that time and it was a dedication to her and so you know the whole history which to. well dignity which doesn't mean it was catered to but the whole album was just. ok

you know you pioneered as i also mentioned has been. in the use of electronic instruments in music you like to experiment a lot with electronics but lately. as i have heard you prefer you prefer unplugged the gigs is that true why well it's not so much a preference as it is. i actually do still both but there's an intimacy about playing just the piano and it's my original instrument to like i started out with the piano and i love it and and so. there's an intimate contact with the audience that can only be gotten that way but with electric with electric music for instance i have a new reunion tour this year with a new version of return to forever and that'll definitely will be plugged in. return to forever was the first album you ever published in russia it was

released in the right and i got it i remember getting it when i was about fifteen or sixteen like that and and. actually it was actually leave first ever jazz fusion album that they had that we had that was available in soviet russia how did it happen who made it happen i don't know but i know that just before that i would get letters and i would meet people who were friends of people and write in russia and musicians and they had all passed around tapes and cassettes that's what we did the weekend the music but at this point the that record label. actually officially released that first recording which was my first record with return to forever and it was i thought wow this is great and you get some money for it did you it was a did they pay you anything i don't think so no they should have been officially i

mean they can collect. this roubles. then soviet roubles they weren't as good as they are. ok and now speaking speaking about jazz well don't you think that today jazz is sort of a losing its original meaning to ten to ten people ten needs. people to make people feel better because there's many people today think that jazz that pop is for the people a pop music big jazz is like for the elite for the con a serious professional there i don't think i think that's an idea that gets around but it's not really true actually all all music i see is being a music that is intended to make people feel good music but there are so many different tastes in music that that's why there are different styles you know in life keeps changing jazz keeps changing everything is changing but the original

intent i think never changes which is the artist the musician wants to give something beautiful to the public. you spoke about playing musical and trying to music but the the fact of today is that millions never hear your acoustic sound because whatever they hear is this little is in their i phones gameboy play stations whatever it's elektra onic so what have you play before people hear it becomes electronic anyway so what's the use of playing a custom well it's always been a lecture on it even when that needle was going around on the vinyl there was still tronic you know and it's just like i said. different ways of expression in different media and now i myself personally use all of the digital sounds to listen to because they're very convenient and that's why people like it i think you carry around a little in your hand

a little phone and so forth you know when people when people play electronic instruments i think you said something like that too when some years ago like it gives us more possibilities it gives us more instruments with sound with with special effects stuff like that but then you get back to to to to to an ordinary wooden stick piano does that mean. that the possibilities this instrument gives you all like the acoustic guitar are unlimited i mean it's more than any other time device can give is that true well i think that the the the unlimited thing that you're talking about is not his and anything to do with the instrument has to do with guns mind and imagination so if this is unlimited then whatever you touch is going to be unlimited it's the electric instruments have one use like a painter has takes this color that color uses oil he uses acrylic he uses crayons

when it's a different medium so you have electric one medium you have all these different mediums but the unlimited mrs. you see. you you had several periods in your career at the time nick acoustic i found gardens a different types of and. as a matter of fact in some of the albums sound like that they're not yours. but is there is there a favorite period is their favorite style their favorite album. favorite album there's too many of them you know my favorite thing is the process i love the process and like for instance now is my favorite period because i'm i'm getting to do so many different things during the course of a year i have i have my piano solo i do duets like with gary burton and by being fair and i do different various kinds of trio work and then with the advent of the

reunion of return to forever i now get to put a more rock kind of music together with stanley clarke and the boys and. i'm having a ball listen. many jazz musicians for some reason like into putting monserrate oh well you know it's going to be. probably i don't know who the most popular musician that ever lived in terms of numbers he certainly is in terms of how many people have recorded and listen to his music how often it's played in present present day you know the mobile phones and i'm telling you most was the guy and actually you know i personally have to love love his music is my fact i didn't invent recently where where i was asked to to do an improvisation on something by mozart because it's known that i love his music so i want my going

to do i don't want to play a piano concerto i'm playing all by myself so i went to my mozart library and i found some songs that he wrote when he was five and six years old there are no songs it's to tunes to just sit well there compositions short with beautiful little gems and melodies so i chose one and it's this perfect little piece and i learned it and then began to improvise with it you know it is an attraction you know he was the he was the most popular musician might still be do you think you would have played jazz if he was absent. without a doubt and so many people agree with that he was an improviser and he was kind of a courageous guy he went against the king's wishes and wanted to have his own band and so forth so this is he was a jazz man in the. early i believe so. what do jazz musicians.

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you. just before we took a break start talking about the russian musicians that you've been listening to the russian classical pianist can you say that russian music in general had any impact on your because because this would have been strange because you're an american and you and you play jazz in america where jazz was born so so but still does that mean that some other music can have an impact. and it has and it always will what else do you need that you have what i have everything i don't when i listen to music and i get attracted to the creativity of musicians so it's not the style so much. like for instance for instance i sometimes i recently i came across two young young pianists like we're talking like thirteen years old

fourteen years old and one is a guy from israel and israeli guy another guy is a guy from tbilisi georgia who's now in new york and they sat down and played for me and and. it's inspiring and you have this fresh mind that is unencumbered by. the usual ideas they haven't had time to be. fifteen sixteen fourteen year old kid playing here get inspired is that the feeling he's going to be better than me do you have this feel you should kill him and you know i have the feeling i want to hear him play someone i can steal everything that he does and get inspired by the guy in fact i'm going to i'm going to make a duet with these guys and because i also want to help them and i also want to hang with them i love i love the kind of spirit but that not only applies to young musicians it applies to every kind of mean we spoke about elton john earlier he's

a favorite of mine going to a completely different kind of music i don't play music like him but like he does but i'm inspired by his songwriting and his singing and his and his message. but your music like maybe yours his music had did influence even elton john like i sang for guy it could have been one of the albums i think. the sound she korea oh yeah ok well jazz is not as popular in russia as it could be unfortunately some of the reasons are in a report by spotlights you know jimi that. while the first jazz bands in the us pete is the nine hundred twenty s. the music was never quite accepted by the soviet regime it is so she did just with the capitalist lifestyle you get in the music originated in poor african-american

communities even in the later years of the us is so when jazz musicians were no longer persecuted they still found themselves on the periphery of mainstream soviet aren't. after the collapse and. did you assess some jazz in russia hardly managed to get beyond that periphery well names like louis armstrong and duke ellington would certainly ring a bell with most russians more than performers only known by smooth number of devoted jazz fans and jazz hardly ever gets unerring in russian t.v. or radio stations mass media is too preoccupied with the life of the stars to change the situation young russian performers of jazz often decide in favor of pop music as it's an easier way to make a living there are only two days a year that jazz music makes headlines in russia it's one fans from across the country flock to the un hunger state west of most go for the jazz festival the

country's biggest open a jazz event has grown in popularity with more and more musicians from russia and the broad taking part but the first of all only last so weekend and for the rest of the year jazz in russia seems to be almost completely out of the limelight. all this is sad is that they may because because i know a lot and hundreds of people who are devout as a matter of fact this this young lady here the makes this one hundred jazz festival possible she's a fan of my work together as newsman. for four a television news company so why do you think there are countries where jazz is like a religion and a countries like russia where jazz is just. sort of music that some people listened to you know and i don't think it's in my travels i haven't found that it's so different from country to country there might be different the scale the scale of

the mental rules but usually part music is part and jazz music is really relegated to a few people who like to be more adventurous with me but it's true all over the world that you can make you can make real bucks in jazz is that right. make real big bucks i mean you make will many what if you play by money means nothing when it comes to jazz musician i think in that i don't think that's a big deal i mean i've made a good living and i know a lot of others all of the guys i play with we we make enough money to be able to do what we like to do and i don't think it's our object to make big bucks but more and more to continue to be able to to it's almost a trick what we do because because i wonder every night i go out in front of audiences and all these people turn up and i get to do exactly what's in my mind without any instruction from any higher authority and i like this feeling that producers are you you're not that kind of slaves of your managers and produces that

is the pop pop pop the good guys. you know even pop guys it depends on how a musician they tell me is a way of what to say you want to whatever when it's in my thing you just do it if you want it is well you know when i normal life when i played with herbie man for instance in the sixty's in new york i was a young man i was twenty two years old or something like that and herbie mann just was just starting a record label so he said chick come in come in make a record for me i said all great i've got this music i'm working on he said yeah but i'd like you to use a couple of the players and some tamales i said well no that's not my music kirby you know so i declined and and he kept asking me and he kept saying well just include a little cowbell or something i said well that's not the my. finally said go do what you want so i made my first recording doing what i wanted and i stayed that way for my whole life so what was wrong with. it was cause it was. my as it was

something different well it's not the problem of the bell itself it's about the whose idea if it was your idea it would have been ok i didn't fit my music at the moment ok can. can you recall your first visit to the because because i like i asking people people of your scale that have visited this so the it rush yeah and are still around like this person is very different so some say it was ok the something that was an awful communist tyranny country what do you recall was it ok it was a coup i had several days here and we were sponsored by the u.s. state department at the time and ambassador hartman i think said it was nineteen eighty two eighty two eighty two and. then we were told that there were no public performances allowed so so the u.s. ambassador used to sponsor house here in moscow to invite russian people

musicians and writer the low and i think my first visit here was with gary burton actually playing with tonight and i found it to be a really exciting experience to meet finally some musicians from russia who i was i was able to talk to. you one said i quote the most important thing for me is to understand the musicians who i play with and question is that the reason why you've been playing with gary forty years because you do understand this guy well. i figure that. if i have a good understanding of the musicians i work with and we have a good report. there's a lot of creativity happening between us then that's the product that is what people are going to experience so i put i put my attention on that first because that's my product that's what my result and that's why and also for me as

a personal fulfillment it's how i learned more when you when you play your music in front of an audience what's the main thing three years self-expression. finding a common language with the audience and communication having fun for yourself or making people have fun well can you pick one of these which is most to know because . they all apply it so i think i like different colors i think that's one of the misunderstandings about this thing do you play for yourself or do you play for the audience you can't separate that out of a person is not like that you like to make the whole scene work you like to i like to do what i love to do i like to bring what i love to do to the audience and i like to see them enjoy it too and so i make adjustments both ways and i mean if i were here's an example if i would play for you the music that i personally only me

just love i think you'd walk out the room after the ten seconds but but i play i take a part of the music that i love and i put it in a way that i think people will be able to understand it because you want to be commercial because you want content because he really doesn't want to make people feel good and if i don't make people feel good with my music i've lost do you teach music. not directly you know why because it's impossible to teach somebody jazz and then no i do most of my. teaching or whatever you want to call that kind of thing by just by example and i have one lesson that i tell everybody so my my my lesson is very short it's one sentence in fact it's three words it's something for yourself i think. thank you thank you very much for being with us ok and just a reminder that my guest today was chicory a jazz legend and grammy and one spotlight will be back with more threats that

comment i don't want going on hand and as time goes on so then take care and thanks for the stuff thank you for giving.

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