![]() I’ve often thought that one reason I developed an identity, which I wasn’t aware of until recently people were telling me I had an identity, but I wasn’t aware of one! I was just trying to play – is that I didn’t have the kind of facile talent that a lot of people have, the ability just to listen and tranfer something to my instrument. It may come out resembling the original style, but it will be structured differently, and that may be what gives it its identity. Rather then just accept the nuances or syntax of a style completely, I’ll abstract principles from it and then put it together myself. ![]() Evans INFLUENCESīill Evans answers Len Lyons in an interview about his musical influences: “It’s more a personality characteristic of putting things together in my own way, which is analytic. And anyone who makes music according to this method conveys to me an element that makes his music jazz. ![]() The how is that the music comes from the moment, it is spontaneous, it exists at the time it is created. If it were a what, it would be static, never growing. ![]()
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