If you have good musicianship, you can talk to any genre of music, so I went for that. "I found that my musicianship was the key. Because, you know, in life, we can go anywhere and - like life - you gotta be prepared for it. “Several of the critics at the time were jazz musicians themselves and were obviously biased towards commercial genres, which is understandable, but once I figured those things out I opened my mind and didn’t insist on my music being one particular way. Were you conscious of crossing from one musical world to another? And were you aware that you’d open yourself up to criticism from the jazz community? I heard it every day, loved it, and could see it getting more popular every day.
"A lot of the jazz musicians weren’t into rock ’n’ roll, they figured it would pass quickly then go away.
However, some of them were die-hards and felt that anything that encroached upon the idea of what jazz was, and should be, was not acceptable to them, so I heard the argument from both sides. “No, because I was already connected with a lot of jazz musicians with the same vision, some famous and some not so famous. Was that a conscious career choice?Ī lot of the jazz musicians weren’t into rock ’n’ roll, they figured it would pass quickly then go away There are parallels between your career and Nat King Cole’s, in the sense that you were both jazz prodigies who went on to huge commercial success.
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