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Jason Moran
American
Musician
Born:
Jan 21
,
1975
Because
Jazz
Me
Music
People
You
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As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
Jason Moran
Nature
Constantly
Take
Improviser
Theme
As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.
Jason Moran
People
Sometimes
Looking
Action
Resonates
Our
Fats
Tell
Has-Been
Kind
Lift
Excites
Almost
Know
Him
Knows
Within
How
Go
Been
Person
Decades
Listener
Story
Us
Molecules
Who
Deeply
Need
Core
Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
Jason Moran
Musicians
Money
Own
Jazz
Market
Some
My Own
Pick
Dell
Well
Make
Stocks
Any
Microsoft
Might
Jazz Musicians
Tech
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.
Jason Moran
Music
Videos
Thought
Corny
Those
Would
Classical
Classical Music
Piano
Rock
Where
Want
Used
Chainsaw
Watch
The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
Jason Moran
Music
Great
History
You
Musicians
Duty
Jazz
Stations
Evolve
Evolving
Recorded
Major
Contemporary
Also
Isolate
How
Audiences
Continue
Years
Questions
Listeners
Just
Form
Format
Ask
Your
Radio
Radio Stations
Keep
Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.
Jason Moran
Music
Thoughts
Emotions
Sometimes
Lose
Our
Those
Sight
Ourselves
Insight
Record
Charlie
Charlie Parker
About
Something
Parker
Abstract
Talk
How
Context
Dialogue
Continue
Gets
Any
Want
Gaining
Us
Foster
Things
Humans
Wider
I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
Jason Moran
Love
Bach
Understand
Any
Mozart
Playing
If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.
Jason Moran
You
Space
Top
OK
Possibility
Run
Carved
Entire
Piano
River
He
Opened
Like
Know
Call
Does
Sound
Hear
Up
Goes
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Lets
Play
Monk
Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.
Jason Moran
Freedom
Me
You
Language
Thought
Jazz
Adept
Tell
Kind
Able
Something
Through
Develop
Freedom Of Expression
Most
Attracted
Instrument
Within
Improvisation
Via
Maybe
Stories
Happens
Really
Express
Expressing
Expression
Thing
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