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How do you manage to keep coming up with fresh musical ideas? WOODY SHAW: Again, it comes from my respect for tradition. I admire the innovations today, but at the same time Im aware that there were others before us. I consider myself a contemporary musician but many times I find myself running into obstacles whereby I am unable to compose and my playing seems stymied to a certain level. I go back and listen to the music that came before me, like Clifford Brown and Louis Armstrong, and Im able to go forward. The trumpet is the Prince of the Horns, and I have a high esteem for it. Its a very sacred instrument. So, I find that at times I have to go back into my history to find new things. A lot of musicians have forgotten about that. We are linked to a legacy.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:28:11 +0000

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