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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.

Jon Gordon

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.
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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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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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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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Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.
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I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a great teacher named David Noon, who I've been in contact with quite a bit in recent years.
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If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.
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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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Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, Jon, are you Jewish? I said, No. And he said, Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there.
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Earlier that year [1996], Ronnie Scott came to Visiones when I was playing with Maria and he hired me to come and play in his club in London, which I was gratified by. That allowed me to make some more connections.
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We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.
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I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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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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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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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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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
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Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
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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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