Jazz pianist Lafayette Gilchrist entered college thinking about accounting. He left with a much different career in mind.
(Ryan Stevenson)
Jazz notes
Learning from the masters of jazz
Gilchrist taught himself by listening to greats
Jazz pianist Lafayette Gilchrist entered college thinking about accounting. He left with a much different career in mind.
(Ryan Stevenson)
Jazz is saturated with hot talent fresh out of music schools. That's not a bad problem to have - it certainly proves to any doubters the music's continued appeal - but it makes it especially refreshing when a distinctive new presence on the scene belongs to a true autodidact. Characters who learned on the fly, came in on a tangent ... (Full article: 961 words)
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