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...group is also planning to work with the Office of Career Services to set up a professional workshop committee to help students polish their interviewing skills and help with resume writing...
Eventually Fox related all this philosophizing to the workshop's goal, to make music. He discussed his pieces and performed them expertly on the piano, explaining that "form is not preset." This essentially meant that one could have free reign to play the notes in any tempo, rhythm, style or anything, as long as the correct pitches are used in the right sequence. All very heady stuff, but what was the musical result...
Just a few minutes into the workshop it became clear that all jazz--even all of the music industry--would be topic for discussion. Murray and Fox spent much time discussing what both saw as the problems facing jazz today. For Fox, the greatest danger was the "tendency now in jazz to be re-creative, to read [jazz solos] as if they are Beethoven scores." Murray echoed by warning against becoming like those musicians who "learned all these notes and... forgot to develop their own sound...
There was a little more music, but the bulk of the latter half of the workshop was devoted to answering more questions. How long should jazz musicians' solos be? Murray responded, "When everybody in the band has went to the bar and came back...you should be finished by then...
When it was all over, everyone, participants and spectators, left the workshop with heads full of ideas, and perhaps more importantly, questions. Fox and Murray provided a generous glimpse of their personalities, their lives, their own creative processes and most importantly, their music. There was a wonderful sense of a passing-on of wisdom and creativity, both musical and otherwise. David Murray summed it up best by saying, "[musicians'] lives and their music that they left leave are like big dictionaries. You got to look at them, read them, study them...and you become them. And then eventually...