[littlewailer]

Does anyone ever experience a strong change in their tone and playing just by listening to a certain player for a little while?

I find that usually in the morning I go on youtube and listen to music for about an hour before I go busking for the day and as soon as I start playing there are strong hints of what I"ve just been listening to. Which on one hand is cool and on another hand can be frustrating. Sometimes it's hard to get my fingers to chill out for playing dinner jazz if I've just been listening to Courtney Pine.

Any similar experiences?

 

[Agent27]

Absolutely! Listening to Stan Getz always gets me playing better.

Listen to Hal Galper talk about listening to Art Tatum.

 

[Strayhorn]

Listening...most under-rated aspect of being a great player. The better the player, the more they've listened. And yes, immitated.










:glasses7:

 

[Kelly Bucheger]

I usually drive to gigs with Dick Oatts' Standard Issue or Kenny Garrett's Triology on the CD player, in the hopes that any little bit of that will soak into my own playing!

 

[DanPerezSax]

Yeah, when I fall into listening to the same great player for a few days, my style changes to emulate them enough that I sometimes get comments like, "Oh, man, you've been jonesing on Cannonball, huh?"

 

[Grumps]

Dexter can teach you much just by listening to him.