Northwestern University

Allmusic
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:54:10 +0000

Remember, I have a jazz musician too…who happens to also play classical!..he sees BOTH sides, and definitely feels that the jazz genre is second shrift at most music schools. Point of example, S was told by one conservatory jazz drum teacher that the classical timpani teacher got very mad at him for “leaning on the timpani and fooling around with the mallets”, as if he had no idea how to respect percussion instruments…of course this teacher was also a superb classical percussionist (in his earlier life!). Rude and disrespectful, for sure, but many classical musicians do not even consider jazzers “real” musicians!