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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.
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I feel very similarly. I didn't have necessarily the same exact kind of dynamic, but that means a lot when people are like that with you. Especially people like that. And I think [Phil Wood] felt a certain responsibility .
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
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I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.
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You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.
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I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.
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Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
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When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.
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You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.
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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
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I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.
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When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.
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One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night. And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.
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Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
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When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
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