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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.

Jon Gordon

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
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I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.
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We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.
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I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.
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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.
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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.
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Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.
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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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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.
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I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.
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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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Everyone wants to do what the great ones do but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
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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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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.
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I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love the [Paul] Creston.
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