"Unusual" Jazz Musicians

Horowitz and Tatum – when jazz met classical

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Tronky wrote:

I don't know if any other cases of "hidden" talents come to mind for you

I wouldn't want to say something stupid, but maybe even Stockhausen chewed on the genre

AbateFaria wrote:

I wouldn't want to say something stupid, but perhaps even Stockhausen chewed on the genre

You remember correctly

From 1946 to 1947 he attends Gymnasium courses (practically high school), returns to the Cologne Conservatory and graduates in 1951. During this entire period, he is a jazz pianist in the bars of Cologne, accompanies the illusionist Adrion as an improviser on his tours... and since that wasn't enough, he works in a factory, as a parking attendant... He prays a lot (he is of the Catholic religion).

Just out of curiosity, in an interview with Jazz Magazine (June 1975) he said:

"It seems to me that today's best jazz musicians maintain a relationship with their instrument and their work that is substantially much more idealistic than the attitude of most classical orchestra musicians. [...] I try to make them understand, and it is sometimes difficult, that we are musicians first and foremost, and that only secondarily we make a certain type of music [...]"

Frank wrote:

we are musicians first and foremost, and only secondarily we make a certain type of music [...]"

"a certain type of music"? ... who knows what he meant ...to the end.