Sean Jones – trumpet icon, education trailblazer, bandleader, and composer – joins me to talk practice routines, your local weather channel, getting stranded on a cruise ship, insecurity, creations of time, the ancestral pipeline, the importance of resistance, and E pluribus unum.
The worst thing an uncommon person can do is play common.
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Actionable Advice
- I think we take Sunday evenings for granted, specifically in the United States. Sunday, for me, is a moment of reflection and projection.
- How you teach a student to perform and relate to the public if you aren’t playing in your community as an educator?
- You’re not listening to that thing that separates you from everyone else. There will never be another Tanner Guss. There will never be another Sean Jones. There will never be another whoever! I honestly think a dose of genius is given to everybody. Just a dose. Like a little seed. And it’s up to us to water that seed, to grow it, to make sure it gets light, to change the position of it. It’s up to us to do that, and that’s an act of choice.
- I love resistance in my life now. I love it. Because every time resistance comes it’s like; this is another opportunity to turn this into a vibration.
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- Sean: Instagram • Peabody
- NYO Jazz
- Jazz Education Network
- Citizen Tain – Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts
- Jamison Ross – Ep 5
- William Blake – The War of Art
- The Herbie Hancock Institute