“My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the time for projects, and he used to collect jazz records. He used to collect hundreds and hundreds of jazz records because he had this passion for it. That's kind of how they had certain hobbies together with my mom.” KindTogetherPassionMomDadTradeJazzMy DadMy Mom Author:Eldar Djangirov
“My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure to music was listening to jazz records.” ListeningDadJazzMy DadColtrane Author:Eldar Djangirov
“"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.” CreativeWorstMusicianJazzCreative ProcessBad Word Author:Eldar Djangirov
“The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.” PeopleJazz Author:Eldar Djangirov
“I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.” ThinkingTodayCreativeMusicianJazzRelevant Author:Eldar Djangirov