“Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.” StyleMusicianJazzSymphonyImprovising Author:Gunther Schuller
“If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.” IfsPlayerJazzMessBassDrummerBass Players Author:Gunther Schuller
“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.” ThinkingWorldWayInspirationFormLinesColorPureDirectLogicOvercomingJazzMusicalObviousSurfacePracticalsBarsReactionsDespiteLimitationConventionalTimingChordsSubtletySaxophoneConventional Ways Author:Gunther Schuller
“After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.” KindWarYoungTakenReadyRevolutionMusicianJazzAll KindsFusionBops Author:Gunther Schuller
