{"id":17940,"date":"2014-06-03T22:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T03:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=17940"},"modified":"2014-06-03T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T04:00:26","slug":"great-branford-marsalis-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/great-branford-marsalis-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Branford Marsalis Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great Branford Marsalis interview that I just watched on SOTW (Sax on the Web).\u00a0 I thought this interviewer did a great job!\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of what he said about classical music as compared to jazz really it home with me.\u00a0\u00a0 In college, I was so stressed to play a classical piece,\u00a0 it had to be perfect and adhere to the composers wishes.\u00a0 I was so much more relaxed playing jazz and just winging it!\u00a0 I&#8217;m the same way today about public speaking.\u00a0 I am more comfortable having a general idea of what I want to talk about and then winging it then trying to speak from a script or even notes.\u00a0 When I do the latter, it is so much more stressful and awkward.\u00a0\u00a0 When I wing it things usually go pretty well&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;probably because there is some improvisation involved&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Hope you enjoy the interview.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tTfDL0ju2tA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great Branford Marsalis interview that I just watched on SOTW (Sax on the Web).\u00a0 I thought this interviewer did a great job!\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of what he said about classical music as compared to jazz really it home with me.\u00a0\u00a0 In college, I was so stressed to play a classical piece,\u00a0 it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":6934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[802,1182,1153,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-17940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jazz-videos","8":"tag-branford-marsalis","9":"tag-classical-saxophone","10":"tag-interview","11":"tag-jazz-music","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}